Welcome to Oakwood
Helping you develop a culture with employee wellbeing at the heart
Welcome to Oakwood
Helping you develop a culture with employee wellbeing at the heart
Clients we get results for
Some of the fantastic people we're working with
— Latest projects
Selected case studies
Services
How we can help
Training
Programmes
Training in skills and behaviours to enhance workplace wellbeing & facilitate employee productivity
MoreeLearning
Programmes
Bringing our training content and engaging delivery style to the online world
MoreImpact
Measurement
A system to measure the true impact of your investment in wellbeing training and initiatives
MoreConsultancy
Support
From policies to your wellbeing strategy, our consultancy services are tuned to meet your needs
MoreIt’s good for people and good for business
Workplace Wellbeing
Creating happier, more inclusive, and productive workplaces.
What we believe in
Oakwood turns 12 this year and we’ve been reflecting on why we do what we do. Delivering mental health, wellbeing, conflict management and personal safety programmes is what we do of course, but what really gets us out of bed in the morning is something much more.
Our ‘Why’ is about creating happier, more inclusive, and productive workplaces where people feel valued and fulfilled and are at the very heart of the way the business operates. We believe it’s good for people and good for business.
Insights
Despite the great strides made in raising awareness of workplace wellbeing, the sad reality is that wellbeing still takes a back seat to ‘other business priorities.
Initiatives and awareness days are great but only a few businesses are truly integrating wellbeing into their strategy. This must change and quickly.
We deliver a range of training and wellbeing services to sectors where people are key to business success. We partner with some of the world’s biggest brands, creating global wellbeing programmes tailored to their specific needs.
We deliver training globally in 15 different languages (with more being added). We understand that the messenger is as important as the message, so take great care in ensuring our team can connect and inspire.
We are unique in being able to able to offer a more holistic approach and understand the link between conflict and wellbeing. Conflict can obviously impact our wellbeing, but our wellbeing can also influence our response to conflict.
Wellbeing in Retail Project
The Wellbeing In Retail Project aims to help shape the future of workplace well-being for the benefit of the sector and the people working within it.
Directed by an independent steering group consisting of business leaders from top UK and International retail brands, our research project has helped to understand the current state of play and uncover valuable and actionable insights for the retail sector.
A Wellbeing Partnership
Hear what our clients have to say
The training gave delegates the confidence to recognise some of the symptoms of mental health and a desire to do what we can to help people through periods of mental ill-health.
The training was engaging, accessible, informative, important and mind-broadening. We came away with a much clearer picture of how mental health issues affect people at work.
Lord Simon Wolfson
CEO, Next
Since 2018 Terry and the team from Oakwood have worked with us as we’ve continued to invest and evolve our development programme. From large scale conferences to local sessions, Terry and team have delivered thought provoking and practical learning on all areas of Mental Health, that resonates within a retail world. They do this whilst ensuring a high level of care given the topic at hand and being responsive to the needs of the learners, even after the core training session has ended.
We’re looking forward to the next phase of our training that will help empower more people in our business whether that’s on an individual basis, to improve their own mental health, or in their capacity as team leaders, line managers and in leadership roles in creating the right environment for everyone to thrive.
Peter Macnab
CEO, Superdrug
Oakwood has been collaborative, pro-active and extremely personable to work with. They are not only passionate about the work they do but more importantly, the impact it has.
Through the Nike Minds programme they developed for us we have a resource for our leaders to use. Rather than being reactive to a situation, we are now empowered to be proactive with our teams.
I would strongly recommend Oakwood to any brand/business that requires support in promoting employee wellbeing within the workplace.
Robert Haining
Director of Retail Stores, Nike
Colgate-Palmolive has had a strategic partnership with Oakwood since 2019 for our Mental Health Champion programme and other wellbeing initiatives.
Oakwood has provided us invaluable advice in the workplace wellbeing space. They have delivered key programmes like mental health manager training, employee training, design and implementation of a mental health champion programme, design of a support toolkit for parents returning from leave of absences etc.
We are very grateful for this partnership.
Shivani Singh
Senior HR Director (Northern Europe) at Colgate-Palmolive
I wholeheartedly recommend Oakwood Training to all of my colleagues out there looking to level up your staff or teams in the space of quality life and mental health.
Terry Streather your leadership, vision and approach to incorporating resilience into your everyday work life was simply amazing and well-said.
Our team was grateful for your expertise and in-person presence. The journey to maintain a healthy life and work balance is that...a journey. We are grateful to be on the road with you!!!!
Shaunta Hyde
Global HR Leader, Amazon
The partnership with Oakwood has helped us to transform our approach globally to Wellbeing. Huge thanks to Oakwood and our teams at LKQ!
Genevieve Dombrowski
Senior Vice President Human Resources
Terry and his team at Oakwood took the time to understand who we are as a Company, before delivering a powerful and popular series of training days which spoke to the heart of our values; to care for people in a high-performance culture. Terry helped our people understand that, to stay champions in the race, we have to take our recovery and recuperation as seriously as we do the end performance.
Dan Everitt
Managing Director, MSC UK
We particularly love the bite-sized, fun, and interactive way the eLearning is constructed which keeps the learner hooked and the unpretentious dialogue creates psychological safety and opens discussions.
Suzanne Vang
Talent Acquisition & Learning Manager - Northern Europe, Colgate-Palmolive Company
Oakwood as a team are fantastic at really understanding what you need and how to support your journey to get there. The whole team from administration to delivery are a class act! I’ve worked with Terry and the team at Oakwood for the past 8 years at two different businesses and they have got better and better! A class delivery and follow up.
Daniel Billetop
UK Training and Development Manager at Hydro
Thanks again for all your support over the last six years, you and your team have been incredibly supportive and great to see so many teams in Amazon leveraging the amazing service you offer!
Aimee Mulkerns
Sr Manager Change Management, Worldwide Amazon Stores, Amazon
Having Oakwood deliver to our brief was important to us; they achieved this by bringing together existing activities, harmonising with our culture, and yet challenging the thinking for our leaders.
Frank Nigriello
Director of Corporate Affairs, Unipart Group
I have had the absolute pleasure of working with Oakwood Training since 2018 across both Superdrug and Savers. The quality of the training they deliver is exceptional. They listen and adapt their sessions to engage every level of the business and have supported us in driving a culture of wellbeing in our business.
For our leaders, it’s helping them have the right conversation with their teams on wellbeing and also re-focusing them on small changes that can have a positive impact on their wellbeing.
Amy Davies
People Director, Superdrug
Our work with Oakwood gave us permission to discuss mental health at the leadership level and has changed the way our mangers think about the team’s wellbeing.
Tania Holcroft
People & Culture Director, Greene King
Without question the most fulfilling, humbling, inspirational, supportive, engaging, rewarding course I have ever been on. As a Board Director, this was one of the most important areas of focus I have been part of - now to embed the culture across the business and world.
David Woolnough
Finance Director, MSC UK
Oakwood are incredibly customer focussed; always taking the time to really understand the different levels of support we need in relation to mental health, personal safety, and any bespoke requests.
Geoff Speed
Head of Talent Development, Marie Curie
The bespoke Mental Health Allies training that Oakwood developed and delivered for Amazon was the best training I have had in the last 15 years!
Ayhan Demir
Program Manager, Amazon
We had an amazing meeting with the Oakwood consultancy team exploring all things wellbeing and working through our wellbeing focus and strategy for the future.
Caroline Cording
Group HR Director Mamas and Papas
We needed an partner that has experience in delivering services to large complex retailers and needed to be confident that the services would deliver the right level of impact across our workforce.
Graham Stapleton
CEO, Halfords
My experience with Oakwood has been positive and refreshing. I appreciated the way that they really got to know our business and respected our culture and global landscape. The authentic perspectives and in-depth knowledge of the subjects we have tackled with their support has been a huge asset to our Wellbeing campaigns and our Global strategy and initiatives.
We now have one true Global Wellbeing initiative that is accessible to all colleagues across our Global footprint. This wouldn’t have been possible without Oakwood’s training sessions and qualified expertise.
This has had a brilliant impact on colleague engagement and can be seen via the positive trend in our global engagement survey scores year on year around themes of Wellbeing and colleague satisfaction.
Sophie Bond
European HR Director, LKQ Europe
Brilliant talk today for International Men’s Day by Nick at Oakwood Training. An incredibly important cause, in such a fast paced industry; and I think it’s safe to say that we all walked away with a lot more knowledge than when we started
HR advisor
Williams Racing
Sectors
Interested in our specialist sector based support?
Whilst we partner with many large international organisations, we offer wellbeing programmes finely tuned to the needs of the following sectors:
