You Asked for Honesty. Now What? The Duty of Care Behind Employee Feedback

Charlie Winton is the Founder of OK Positive (OK+), a digital mental health platform built on evidence-based practices such as ACT, CBT, and resilience training. After years spent in recruitment and financial technology and drawing on his own lived experience of mental health challenges like OCD, Charlie realised the need for a more accessible, preventative approach to emotional wellbeing. Since its inception, OK+ has grown to serve thousands across corporate, education, and charitable sectors, embodying Charlie’s deeply held belief that openness and vulnerability help dismantle mental health stigma. He has been running the organisation for six years and been involved in all aspects of starting and growing a business from investment, sales, operations, recruitment and networking.

Patrick D. Fagan, Ph.D., MBA is a senior adviser in executive leadership and talent strategy and an organisational psychologist with experience in workforce transformation, executive succession, leadership development, organisational design, employee engagement, labour relations and culture change. His work focuses on leadership, human-centred organisational transformation, responsible AI and the future of work.

Liam Moore is a leadership coach and coach supervisor with a Master's in Coaching and Mentoring Practice from Oxford Brookes University. He works with emerging leaders, coaches and organisations on leadership practice, reflective decision-making and the boundaries that make honest conversations safe. His perspective combines leader-as-coach development and professional supervision with particular attention to confidentiality, informed consent and duty of care when organisations ask people to speak openly.

Mike Simmons is a revenue and go-to-market strategist, revenue leader and speaker who helps organisations replace commercial confusion with clarity and execution. Through Catalyst, he works with revenue leaders, sales teams and GTM executives on strategy, operating systems, sales effectiveness and leadership. With more than 30 years’ experience across operations, sales, customer success and leadership, Mike has worked with organisations ranging from early-stage teams to businesses with $250M in revenue and has supported more than 100 clients. His approach combines practical diagnosis, collaborative whiteboard work and clear next steps that teams can act on.

Dr. Bryan Hughes is the founder of Clear Day Strategies and creator of the Culture Recovery Framework. He is an organisational-culture specialist focused on toxic-leadership recovery, employee retention, leadership behaviour change and high-trust, high-accountability cultures. He is also a bestselling author, doctoral researcher, independent board director and 2026 TEDx speaker.