Nicki Eyre
Founder & Lead Campaigner for Stop Hurt at Work
Nicki Eyre, Founder of Stop Hurt at Work, has experienced both opportunity and adversity during her career, including her own experience of feeling bullied at work. She recognises the scale of the problem at both an organisational and individual level and is able to bring her wealth of experience to her role as Chief Campaigner. With over ten years experience as an award winning a consultant, speaker and trainer through Conduct Change, she has a real passion for working with individuals and businesses to prevent and resolve workplace bullying.
She leads the Stop Hurt at Work campaign as they research and campaign for the implementation of effective routes to redress for individuals, both in terms of approach and legislation, as well as supporting individuals to move on when they are struggling emotionally.
With a mission to end workplace bullying through the development of meaningful prevention activities for organisations, she leads on our work to ensure that everyone feels heard, valued and respected in the workplace. This involves engaging stakeholders across public, private and charity sectors, including regulatory and professional bodies to influence effective change.
She has spoken at events both in the UK and internationally through a range of media from events to podcasts; national radio interviews to BBC Ideas documentary; as keynote speaker and as a panel member.
Nicki is a Member of the International Association on Workplace Bullying & Harassment, and was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her work in this area.
Contact Nicki if you would like her to speak at your event.
Stop Hurt at Work
Ambassadors & Experts
Jessica Rowson
Legal Expert
Jessica is Head of psychiatric injury & Director at Oakwood Solicitors; a specialist lawyer in the niche legal field of stress at work cases with a particular interest in cases involving matters of workplace bullying. She hopes that by supporting her clients in taking legal action against their employers that companies will become better educated and informed on the importance of good mental health in the workplace and avoid the likelihood of future workplace disputes from arising.
She holds a TQUK Level 2 Certificate in awareness of Mental Health Problems and is also a qualified Mental Health First Aider. Jessica also recently contributed her expertise to a BBC documentary. This one-off special highlighted daily workplace interactions and asked a group of 18-30 year-olds whether the behaviours displayed could be deemed as bullying and sexual harassment at work.
Jessica is the current Governance and Finance Member of the Stop Hurt at Work Committee.
Liza Collins
Liza Collins is a Faculty Member of the Australian Institute of Healthcare Executives and a Member of the European Health Future Forum.
With over 35 years of UK and international experience in health and care systems, Liza is recognised for her pioneering work at the intersection of workplace culture, executive leadership, and systemic change. She works with boards and senior leaders to mitigate organisational, legal, and reputational risks - including compliance with evolving European ESG regulations on workplace conduct and anti-social behaviour.
Liza is the creator of the Fearless Culture Leadership course, Compassionate Leadership for Clinicians course and a unique 7-step framework for relationally led, restorative culture change. Her work equips leaders with the tools to lead with courage, compassion, and clarity, embedding psychological safety and trauma-informed practices at the heart of organisational transformation.
Her research and advocacy include her 2002 publication The NHS: Can It Create a Harassment-Free Environment and Non-Bullying Culture? and her forthcoming book The Physiology of Bullying (2025), which examines the deep impact of toxic workplace behaviours on individuals and systems.
An Executive Education alumna of Imperial College London’s Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare programme, Liza is a Fellow of the RSA, a regular conference speaker, and a columnist on healthcare culture and leadership. She is also the author of reflective coaching journals and anti-bullying resources for children, distributed globally during Anti-Bullying Week.
Liza is the current Chair of the Stop Hurt at Work Committee.
Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan has over 28 years’ experience working in the Metropolitan Police with much of that time in leadership roles. He was fortunate to attend leadership courses at the Police Staff College and with the military. During his service Jonathan worked with communities, businesses, local authorities, across a number of government departments and internationally. He has considerable experience in prevention strategies, legislative changes, working with vulnerable groups and partnership work.
Jonathan recently retired and moved with his family to Cornwall to establish a family business running holiday cottages and to pursue the many outdoor activities he enjoys both on and off the water.
Over the past 28 years, he has witnessed a variety of leadership styles and has seen the organisational culture of the police change dramatically. He has a good understanding of how important a healthy positive culture is to the morale of employees. He has challenged inconsistencies between leadership behaviour and policy when necessary.
Jonathan experienced being the target of bullying some years ago; a period of his life that impacted on him considerably. He now dedicates much of his time to challenging workplace bullying and creating positive workplace culture.
Paddy Trimmer
As an ILM qualified Leadership and Development coach, Paddy draws upon coaching skills and over 30 years of leadership and management experience to guide his clients through the complexities and challenges of the working environment. His approach enables them to identify, appreciate and reinforce their strengths and confront and manage their weaknesses.
He facilitates each client’s development through active listening, supported by questioning to aid understanding of themselves, challenge to test that understanding and feedback to let them understand what he observes. This confidential process will facilitate the clients in planning the next steps of their journey.
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ILM 7 Certificate in Leadership and Executive Coaching (2016)
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Senior Leadership and Management roles in the Royal Navy and Public Sector
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Coaching support to Charities and Public Sector Organisations
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Board development coaching
Lisa Seagroatt
Lisa is the Founder and Managing Director of HR Fit for Purpose. She experienced a mental health breakdown in 2015 caused by bullying in the workplace. As a direct consequence of this enforced change in her career, she then set up her own business and helps business leaders to create a healthy workplace culture by looking after their employees.
Lisa is passionate about developing and helping business and employees reach their full potential in the workplace as well as challenging unhealthy HR workplace practices, exposing how poor leadership and management creates a culture of fear, sickness absence and a high turnover of people leading to poor profitability and productivity.
HR Fit for Purpose launched on World Mental Health Day in May 2017 and having previously received support from Enterprise Enfield’s Inspiring Women Programme, Lisa was ultimately selected to receive further support from their Female Founders Accelerator Programme funded by the JP Morgan Foundation. She now acts as an Ambassador and HR Business Advisor for Enterprise Enfield, encouraging other women to reach their full potential in business whilst assisting them with creating a culture of high performance by recruiting the ‘right people into the right places’.
A Lecturer in the CIPD Level 5 Intermediate Diploma qualification in HR Management, Lisa is part of the LEAN East network of HR practitioners currently volunteering as Enterprise Advisers in local secondary schools with Year 10 students. She has a qualification in Genealogical Studies as well as Business Management Studies and is qualified to ‘Train the Trainer’. She has just completed her book, which is a workplace comedy based on poor workplace culture and her mental health experience.
Dave Gregson
Dave previously worked in front line health and social care from April 1996 to December 2018. Dave also has and still does work in a range of community and voluntary roles and is a registered carer for family, and a writer.
Between 2011 and 2018 Dave worked for a large national care charity and following changes in the management and staffing plus governance Dave experienced a long period of workplace bullying, which culminated in his dismissal in December 2018. At the time workplace bullying was not widely acknowledged or recognised to the degree that it is today.
Dave won a significant legal case against his former employer and following winning his case set about to raise awareness and increase support and campaign for a change in the law on workplace bullying.
Dave also ran a non for profit community interest company between 2020 and 2022 called Important To Important For focussing on workplace bullying, neurodiversity, mental health and supporting the vulnerable. This mission now continues with the writing. Dave has written books for both children and adults, and had stories published in magazines and online. Dave is also autistic and champions this cause; a lack of acceptance and understanding was something Dave experienced with the bullying whilst an employee of the said care company, also a registered charity.
Dave has taken part and spoken at many events about issues such as workplace bullying and took part in the United Against Workplace Bullying conference in 2021. Dave works closely with Matt Paknis, the global leadership consultant and bestselling writer, Stop Hurt at Work and others. Dave celebrates February 19th a "Victory Against Workplace bullying Day", because it is on this day that he finally won his case in 2020 at the tribunal following a three year period since February 18th 2017, when the bullying started in his then workplace.
Jenny McCullough
Policy Expert
Jenny is a former House of Commons clerk who continues to be active in campaigns to improve working conditions in Parliament and elsewhere by writing and speaking about bullying and harassment.
Before moving into reporting and editing work, she was a medical librarian and also worked in university administration.
Professor Charlotte Rayner
research Expert
Professor Emeritus of Human Resource Management at University of Portsmouth, and international expert in workplace bullying prevention research, with a speciality in interventions at the organisational level.
Charlotte is also one of the founders of the International Association on Workplace Bullying & Harassment.