Real Life Workplace Programme
Nicola is an experienced corporate professional with over twenty years of senior-level experience, giving her a deep understanding of the challenges that businesses and decision-makers face today.
Having worked extensively with business leaders, she knows how factors like employee wellbeing, retention, and productivity directly impact a company’s bottom line.
Many businesses unknowingly suffer the financial consequences of this oversight with rising absenteeism, lost productivity, increased staff turnover, and higher recruitment costs.
The Real Life Workplace Programme is designed to meet organisations where they are. Covering neurodiversity, mental health and wellbeing, fertility, pregnancy, baby loss and menopause. The programme is fully modular, allowing businesses to focus on the areas most relevant to their workforce and organisational priorities.
Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, each organisation can select the modules they need, tailoring learning, support, and workplace practices to reflect their people, challenges, and culture. This ensures support goes beyond awareness or compliance and translates into meaningful, practical change.
Through small but intentional shifts in understanding, leadership, and everyday practice, the programme helps organisations build inclusive, compassionate workplaces where employees feel supported, valued, and able to perform at their best.
The Real Life Workplace Programme
The Real Life Workplace Programme helps organisations address the real-life factors that influence employee wellbeing, performance, and retention. By focusing on practical, inclusive workplace practices, the programme supports organisations to reduce risk, retain talent, and build sustainable, high-performing cultures.
Each module can be delivered individually or combined to meet the specific needs of your workforce.
You can choose between our Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum packages.
Modules & Business Benefits
Neurodiversity
While not everyone is neurodivergent, every workplace is neurodiverse. Neuroinclusive approaches improve communication, ways of working, and performance for everyone.
This module helps organisations better understand neurodiversity and implement practical adjustments that reduce unnecessary stress and burnout, enabling individuals and teams to perform at their best.
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Supporting mental health has a measurable business impact. In the UK, poor mental wellbeing costs employers an estimated £42 – £45 billion each year through absence, lost productivity and staff turnover. However, evidence shows that effective workplace mental health interventions can deliver a return of around £5 for every £1 invested. By embedding supportive practices, organisations can reduce absence, improve engagement and strengthen retention.
Fertility, Pregnancy and Baby Loss
Fertility challenges, pregnancy and baby loss are often hidden at work, yet they can have a significant impact on absence, engagement and retention if employees feel unsupported. Research shows that around 1 in 5 employees experiencing fertility challenges consider leaving their job due to a lack of workplace support, creating avoidable recruitment, onboarding and knowledge-loss costs for organisations.
This module supports organisations to reduce unplanned absence and disengagement through flexible, compassionate and informed practice. In doing so, it builds trust, improves retention and reinforces a supportive, inclusive workplace culture.
Menopause in the Workplace
Menopause symptoms can significantly affect confidence, wellbeing and performance, yet many employees feel unable to disclose their experiences at work.
Research indicates that menopause symptoms negatively affect work for around 70% of women. Without appropriate workplace support, over half consider leaving their roles, putting retention and organisational experience at risk.
This module helps organisations provide practical support without relying on employee disclosure. As a result, managers gain the confidence and consistency needed to reduce performance fluctuations, minimise absence and sustain productivity. By embedding menopause-aware practices, organisations can retain valuable experience, strengthen workplace culture and position themselves as inclusive, supportive employers.
