• Explore why cultural competence is essential for impactful public health practice
• Examine practical ways organisations can embrace diversity and actively listen to the communities they serve 
• Understand how culturally competent practice can transform areas such as men’s mental health and broader wellbeing priorities

• The impact of stigma on male employees' willingness to seek help
• Lived experience: turning crisis into advocacy
• The role of employers in suicide prevention

• Insight from inside the therapy room – the invisible strain
• Why traditional workplace initiatives struggle to create real engagement or change 
• A new model of workplace well-being for men

Amy O'Connor, Global Policy and Advocacy Lead, Movember

Vicki Cockman, Director of Training and Consultancy, MHFA England

Phil Spencer, Wellfare Officer, Trojan Wellbeing

Julie Dennis, Head of Inclusive Workplace Strategy & Policy, ACAS

Rebecca Lisi, Psychotherapist, Rebecca Lisi Therapy

• Designing workplace strategies that resonate with male employees
• What makes mental health support “male-friendly”?
• Role of peer-led approaches and inclusive language

• Latest CIPD research and guidance on mental health and inclusion
• Findings from the Mayfield Review on 'Keep Britain Working' and related government initiatives
• Mental health as part of culture, OH support, and the role of line managers
• The responsibility of leadership to model openness

• Understand the key components of effective return-to-work interventions for mental health
• Explore how job design can be used to promote psychological wellbeing and prevent relapse
• Learn about the “healthy jobs” taxonomy and how to apply it in organisational and policy settings

• Through insights from qualitative research, understand the perspective of construction workers in England on the challenges of working in the construction industry
• Understand how academic research informed the design of a multistakeholder consultation survey across UK construction
• Understand insights from the two thousand+ consultation responses so far and how the data will shape a new Code of Practice for Workforce Mental Health for the construction industry

• Highlight the current mental health emergency in the engineering, construction, and manufacturing sectors
• Overview of EqualEngineers’ longitudinal ‘Masculinity in Engineering’ research study findings and recommendations
• Understand what action can be taken to create SAFE environments in engineering and other male-dominated sectors