Mental Health and Wellbeing for Senior Leaders
Leading culture, setting direction, and modelling wellbeing from the top.
Mental Health & Wellbeing for Senior Leaders is a strategic leadership programme designed to support senior decision-makers with responsibility for organisational culture, performance, and risk.
Senior leaders shape workplace wellbeing not only through strategy, but through the behaviours they role-model, the priorities they set, and the systems they tolerate. This programme supports leaders to lead mental wellbeing with confidence, credibility, and accountability.
Recommended course length: Half Day – (Full-day and online formats are also available for boards, executive teams, or deeper strategic exploration.)
Overview
While managers support individuals day-to-day, senior leaders influence mental wellbeing at scale. Their decisions shape organisational expectations, psychological safety, workload pressures, and leadership culture.
This programme supports senior leaders to deepen their understanding of mental health and stress, while moving decisively beyond awareness into ownership, influence, and system-level impact. It creates space for reflection, challenge, and practical action in the context of real leadership pressures.
Topics Covered
- Mental wellbeing as a strategic leadership issue
- The mental health continuum and organisational risk factors
- The impact of senior leadership behaviour on culture and trust
- Organisational systems, pressure points, and decision-making
- Psychological safety and leadership accountability
- Balancing performance, compassion, and sustainable leadership
Course Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Understand how leadership behaviour shapes wellbeing and culture
- Recognise organisational risk factors linked to stress and burnout
- Reflect on the difference between intent and impact at senior level
- Role-model healthy, sustainable leadership practices
- Clarify senior leadership responsibilities around boundaries, escalation, and accountability
- Better support managers without leaving them to carry wellbeing risk alone
What this course is – and isn’t
This course is:
- A strategic mental wellbeing programme for senior leaders
- Focused on culture, systems, leadership behaviour, and accountability
- Designed to support informed, human-centred decision-making
- Grounded in real organisational and leadership challenges
This course is not:
- A clinical or diagnostic programme
- Mental Health First Aid or operational management training
- A substitute for professional or therapeutic support
- Designed to focus on individual case management
This ensures the programme remains appropriately strategic, reflective, and leadership-focused.
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Who is this course for?
This course is particularly relevant for:
- Board Members & Trustees
- Executive & Senior Leadership Teams
- Directors & Heads of Department
- Senior HR, OD, and People Leads
It is particularly relevant for leaders with responsibility for organisational culture, workforce wellbeing strategy, governance, risk, reputation, and leading through change or uncertainty.
Organisational benefits
This programme supports organisations to:
- Embed mental wellbeing into leadership culture and strategy
- Improve consistency and confidence across management layers
- Reduce hidden risk linked to burnout, absence, and disengagement
- Strengthen trust, credibility, and psychological safety
- Demonstrate visible senior leadership commitment to wellbeing
Face-to-face executive sessions
- Half-day or full-day formats
- Suitable for boards, leadership teams, or senior cohorts
Online / remote delivery
- Delivered as a focused strategic session
- Designed to encourage discussion and reflection
Group size:
- Typically up to 15 senior leaders, enabling meaningful dialogue.
Part of a wider mental health training pathway
This course forms part of Diversiti UK’s wider mental health training pathway, designed to support mental wellbeing at every level of an organisation.
Alongside this senior-leader programme, we also offer:
- Mental Health & Wellbeing for Managers – supporting managers to recognise concerns, have effective conversations, and respond appropriately
- Mental Health & Wellbeing for Employees – building awareness, confidence, and appropriate peer support
Together, these programmes provide a consistent and joined-up approach to workplace mental wellbeing.
What organisations say
“Excellent course, extremely well delivered and very helpful.”
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Why choose Diversiti UK?
At Diversiti UK, we support leaders to create inclusive, healthy workplaces where people and performance can thrive together.
We understand the pressures, complexity, and competing priorities senior leaders face. Our approach recognises these realities while supporting leaders to make informed, human-centred decisions that shape long-term organisational health.
As an award-winning training and consultancy provider, we deliver mental health, wellbeing, EDI, and leadership development across the UK. With a strong social purpose, we reinvest our profits into supporting marginalised communities and creating lasting impact.
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