Speaking
Your team already know what to eat. Nobody asks them why they don't.
I speak to HR, People, L&D and wellbeing leaders on burnout, presenteeism and the loop between how people work and how they eat. Nutrition is a consequence of eating behaviour, and that behaviour is driven by what work does to our cognitive and emotional state. No willpower lectures. No rainbow-on-a-plate. Something your team can use on Monday morning.
Audience fit
Built for organisations where presenteeism is already showing up in the absence numbers.
If you run People, wellbeing or L&D anywhere the work is cognitively demanding, this pattern is familiar: your best people are quietly losing afternoons, second-coffee counts are climbing, and stress-related absence is creeping up. Presenteeism, the cost of people who show up but can't fire, runs at roughly three times the cost of the absence you can actually see.
Standard corporate nutrition talks cover the basics: eat the rainbow, mind your gut. Fine. Not the lever. They answer what to eat, when the useful question is why we eat the way we do. The lever is the loop that runs both ways, between how always-on work depletes people and what a depleted person then reaches for. That's the conversation almost nobody is having.
16.4m
working days lost to work-related stress, depression or anxiety in a single year.
776,000
workers reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety over the same period.
≈ half
of all work-related ill health in Great Britain is now stress, depression or anxiety.
Source: HSE, Great Britain, 2023/24
The talks
Four entry points.
Lunch-and-learn · 45-60 min
The 3pm Slump
Why your team disappears every afternoon, and how to bring them back.
Read the brief →Keynote · 45-60 min
Burnout's Quiet Cycle
How your best people break, and why it shows up in the kitchen first.
Read the brief →All-hands · 30-45 min
Stress Eating at Work
Why willpower advice is making it worse, and what actually shifts the behaviour.
Read the brief →Custom · scoped per brief
Bespoke
Tailored to your organisation's data, pressures and audience.
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From the room
I no longer get afternoon slumps and can maintain concentration through endless remote working days. I'd recommend Charlie to any business looking to support the performance of their people.
Director · Home Office
About the speaker
Charlie Beestone is a nutritionist (MSc) and writes the Food is the Symptom publication. His background is in performance nutrition, working with everyone from Olympians and world champions to academy athletes and recreational competitors, alongside high-growth companies across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
He brings the same principles into the room with your team: wellbeing and performance are not a trade-off, they feed each other. That bidirectional view is the part most corporate wellbeing talks miss entirely.
Nutritionist, MSc
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