Bespoke Consultancy

Get the support you need to evaluate and measure the impact of your workplace wellbeing initiatives. Together, we’ll figure out what’s working – and what’s not – to develop informed policies and actionable improvement plans.

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Bespoke Consultancy

Meaningful workplace wellbeing

Creating happier, more inclusive, and productive workplaces where people feel valued and fulfilled is so much more than offering gym memberships or free fruit. Putting wellbeing at the very heart of the business culture is good for people, and good for business.

With our broad experience across different industries, we help join the dots for a more meaningful and holistic approach to wellbeing. In our experience, working within existing frameworks or principles is often more effective than starting over. After all, no-one knows your business like you do. We can help with:

Strategic planning around workplace wellbeing

Policies, procedures, and risk assessments (creation and review)

Embedding a holistic approach

Wellbeing charter development

Development of bespoke learning material

Measurement of wellbeing generally and following intervention

Building a wellbeing partnership

Hear what our clients have to say

From creating and reviewing policies to help with designing your workplace wellbeing strategy, our consultancy services are perfectly tailored to meet the precise needs of your organisation.

The partnership with Oakwood has helped us to transform our approach globally to Wellbeing. Huge thanks to Oakwood and our teams at LKQ!

Genevieve Dombrowski

Senior Vice President Human Resources, LKQ Corporation

Oakwood have helped Next to embark upon their journey to improve the way those who experience mental ill-health are recognised, heard, and helped. From the development of corporate objectives and a Mental Wellbeing Charter to the creation and delivery of comprehensive training programmes and procedures, Oakwood have been incredibly supportive at every stage.

Andy Latham

Head of Health, Safety and Wellbeing, Next

We had an amazing meeting with the Oakwood consultancy team exploring all things wellbeing and working through our wellbeing focus and strategy for the future. We are looking forward to working more deeply with the Oakwood team, commencing with a set of wellbeing events for our leadership team and managers.

Caroline Cording

Group HR Director Mamas and Papas

As part of our overall wellbeing strategy, our work with Oakwood has been brilliantly received among colleagues; a great addition to our employee value proposition and offering, further cementing our position of being a great place to work.

Emma Bradbury

Head of HR, MSC UK

Oakwood were the expert friend that helped us springboard to where we are today. They have helped is to introduce wellbeing champions, Mental Health awareness modules, resilience content and listening groups, we have seen a much stronger engagement in wellbeing content specifically
since working with Oakwood and expect that to continue to grow.

Chris Britton

Head of Learning and Development, Carpetright

Having Oakwood deliver to our brief was important to us; they achieved this by bringing together existing activities, harmonising with our culture, and yet challenging the thinking for our leaders.

Frank Nigriello

Director of Corporate Affairs, Unipart Group

Oakwood are incredibly customer focussed; taking the time to really understand the different levels of support we need and developing bespoke programmes for us. Oakwood has partnered us in rolling out numerous mental health and personal safety programmes and they are also helping us with some bespoke support for lone workers at night.

Geoff Speed

Head of Talent Development, Marie Curie

The best thing about working with Oakwood is their collaborative approach. They understand our needs from MHFA training to senior leader and manager wellbeing workshops. Our work with Oakwood gave us permission to discuss mental health at the leadership level and has changed the way our managers think about the team’s wellbeing.

Tania Holcroft

People & Culture Director, Greene King

Facing the challenge of an ever-increasing pace of change and the pandemic impact, Unipart employed the services of Oakwood’s acknowledged wellbeing expert Terry Streather to help our leaders to understand their role in meeting these 21 st century challenges. Terry worked in small groups as well presenting to the entire leadership team and the sessions gained many plaudits from the attendees.

John Neill

Chairman & CEO, Unipart Group

Measuring the impact of training and your return on investment

Many senior business leaders fear that organisational wellbeing investments may be at risk due to the absence of a credible method to measure impact. Oakwood have been conducting research on this issue for some time and have developed a proprietary evaluation platform and methodology which assesses the impact of wellbeing training programmes.

Based on our extensive experience consulting with large corporate clients on their wellbeing strategies and the countless conversations had with managers over the years about aims and outcomes, we have evolved our methodology into a general wellbeing impact measurement system – configurable to specifically align with your organisation’s wellbeing investment business case.

Together, we can assess the true value and impact of your workplace wellbeing investments.

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Ready to talk to our workplace wellbeing experts?

We’d love to find out more about you and your organisation, and how we can help.

Here’s a taster of what our training tries to achieve

De-Escalating & Managing Conflict

Are your teams equipped with the skills and behaviours required to diffuse and manage conflict in the workplace?

Workplace Wellbeing For Managers

Do your managers know how to build personal and team resilience? Do the understand the link between performance and wellbeing?

Holistic Approach To Wellbeing In The Workplace

How do you and your teams handle mental health support or are the really difficult conversations avoided?

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The training was engaging, accessible, informative, important and mind-broadening. We came away with a much clearer picture of how mental health issues affect people at work. The training helped to dispel the stigma and fear of mental health - giving delegates the confidence to recognise some of the symptoms and a desire to do what we can to help people through periods of mental ill-health.

Lord Simon Wolfson

CEO, Next

Oakwood's approach is highly professional and bespoke. The training I attended with them, along with the top 25 senior leaders at Barnardo's was one of the most profound learning experiences I have had in a while. High quality, fast paced, deep, challenging, thought provoking and humorous. Brilliant!

Javed Khan

CEO, Barnados

The session was a great opportunity to reflect on how and why we should always talk about Mental Health, and how we can support one another.

Nick Mackenzie

CEO, Greene King

I’ve worked with the Oakwood team on multiple projects. It’s a sad fact that violence and aggression is on the rise in the retail sector and AS Watson wanted to be proactive and give our colleagues the knowledge and tools to diffuse a potentially intense situation that could put our teams, colleagues, or visitors at risk.

Claire Reeves

People Development Content & Design Manager, Superdrug / AS Watson Group

Oakwood have completed many sessions for us since engaging with them in 2019. All course delegates praise the trainers for their professionalism, experience, and informative style; making the course easy to digest and changing their outlook on mental health. They have commenced some conflict management training, which we know will be delivered to the same standard.