Speaking and facilitation

Jake brings a combination of credible working background, genuine lived experience, and over a decade of frontline delivery.

He was elected to local government at 18 - the youngest councillor in the UK at the time. He led Citizens Advice Wokingham as CEO from age 26. He has trained over 3,000 people in mental health, resilience and conflict resolution. And he has lived experience of mental health challenges since childhood.

That combination makes for talks that land differently. Not keynotes built on borrowed research. Not vulnerability performances. Practical, honest, delivered from the room.

Generic mental health talks often feel the same: the statistics, the stigma message, the call to check on your colleagues. Audiences have heard it. They nod. They leave. Nothing changes.

Jake's sessions work differently because they're grounded in workplace reality - what managers actually face, what frontline staff actually experience, what leaders need to hear rather than what they want to. He doesn't perform expertise he doesn't have, and he doesn't pretend the topic is simple.

Formats are flexible. Jake can work to your event structure, your audience and your objectives - whether that's a keynote, an interactive workshop, a panel contribution or a facilitated staff session.

What organisations typically get from a Jake Morrison session:

• An audience that has actually engaged - not just sat through another wellbeing tick-box

• Practical framing that people can take back to their teams the next day - not just awareness

• Honest, non-clinical language around mental health that reduces stigma without oversimplifying

• A starting point for broader culture change - sessions can be followed up with MHFA training, mediation or coaching

• Content tailored to your event - topic, format, audience and objectives agreed in advance

• Keynote - 30 to 60 minutes, suitable for conferences, away days and all-staff events

• Workshop - 2 to 4 hours, facilitated and interactive, suitable for teams and leadership groups

• Panel participation - sector events and conferences

• Webinar or virtual presentation - fully online format available

Topics include:
mental health in the workplace, lived experience and leadership, conflict and communication, managing difficult conversations, psychological safety, and suicide awareness.

Jake is happy to discuss a topic not listed above. Get in touch to talk through what your event needs.