the return to work mentor

Navigating work and life with a personal health crisis?

Hi, I'm Heather, the Return to Work Mentor.

Gain clarity and direction with strategic, focused mentoring and resources for business professionals based on award winning professional expertise and personal experience of managing a serious health condition.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, isolated – juggling your health needs and work responsibilities - I understand. I've been there.

A serious health issue can feel like your entire world is unravelling. You're not just managing a medical condition - you're protecting your livelihood, your reputation, and your sense of self.

Please explore my website for more information and get in touch with any questions.

Let's create a strategy that future-proofs your success and puts you back in control, whilst protecting your wellbeing.

Make a start on your resilient business with my FREE tools and insights ...

Instant download for:

  • 7 Mistakes Small Business Owners Needs to Avoid Guide

  • Resilient Business Roadmap Checklist to go with the free Video training...

  • 30 mins FREE video training - How To Safeguard Your Business From The IMPACT Of Personal Illness Or Injury

Mentoring Services

One to one mentoring to support you to create a life where work and health work together for you.

Speaking & Training

Speaking and training events for individuals, organisations and employers.

Vocational & Return to Work Consulting

Sickness Absence Strategy Consulting

Consulting on sickness absence strategy and long term sickness return to work cases for employers.

I’m living proof that designing and creating a new life, even with long-term health issues, is absolutely possible.
Why work with me?

I bring a unique combination of 30 years professional experience in occupational health and vocational rehabilitation, combined with personal experience of ill health & injury (stroke, blood cancer and a badly broken ankle that needed surgery!).

Expert Support

I've found life-changing ways to thrive that support the everyday needs of my health conditions while simultaneously bringing me joy and allowing me the time and space to travel around the UK in my camper van, enjoy hikes in the countryside with my dog and spend quality time with family and friends.

Professional Recognition

  • National Award for Promoting Activity and Healthy Lifestyles

  • NHS England Rehabilitation and Innovation Award

  • Vocational Rehabilitation Practitioner of the Year

  • Speaker at the World Congress of Physiotherapy

My Approach

I weave together many years of strategically supporting people who have been injured or ill and want to stay at or return to work, or their day to day activities - using mentoring, a somatic trauma informed approach and heart rate variability assessment and analysis.

Together we create a personalised roadmap for you to sustainably manage your work, life and health so that you can have a thriving business and a joy filled life!

Client Testimonials

Until I met Heather I struggled with overcoming the mental and physical trauma of getting run over by a car (here in the US). Heather is a voice in the darkness, the beacon of light in the storm that people with trauma face. She not only gave me the tools to help me become stronger, she gave me the confidence that I could come back from it and thrive. Because of Heather I have rebounded. I’m working out every day, feeling stronger, and I’m excited about my future once again!

-Julia

Heather is an expert by experience and expertise....she speaks very much around the mindset, the emotional and social context of recovery from injury and illness.

-Prof. Laura Serrant OBE

Heather has a unique dual perspective on
complex injury and recovery. She is blazing a path of hope. Hope beautifully delivered without gaslighting. Such gentle and insightful suggestion of what could be.

-Jo Turner, Physiotherapist & Coach
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