Employee health and well-being have a major impact on the costs of running a business.

The Team

For the past fifteen years he has run an occupational health psychology service for 600 doctors in West Sussex, funded by NHS Primary Care Trusts.

Brian has worked in the Academic Department of Psychological Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London for the past ten years. He is a visiting lecturer at Surrey University; The Institute of Postgraduate Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; and at British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine. He is the occupational health psychology advisor to the West Sussex Primary Care Trust.

In the corporate sector he has over ten years experience of executive coaching. He delivers, evidence-based, learning and development programmes on health and well-being for corporate clients.

He delivers early-intervention programmes for employees with stress related problems or musculoskeletal pain to facilitate recovery and return to work.

He is actively involved in clinical research and has recently completed a research study on well-being and stress reduction in NHS hospital consultants (in press).

He runs regular educational programmes on CBT for health professionals (www.cbt-edu.co.uk).

He has written numerous articles, taught and lectured widely on well-being and stress related illness. He has contributed to two recent books:

The Mind; A User's Guide. Bantam Press, 2007.

Biopsychosocial Medicine; An integrated approach to understanding illness. Oxford University Press, 2005.

For over ten years he has been active in the private and public sectors as a consultant psychologist, managing and leading teams involved in condition management programmes. The main focus of Jannie's work is to apply evidence based practice to psychological and physical performance with an emphasis on individual, team and organisational wellbeing and resilience. This involves developing CBT programmes focusing on optimal functioning within the working environment; including assisting individuals and teams to optimise psychological and physical wellbeing by developing skills to prevent burnout, stress management, work/life balance maintenance and return-to-work initiatives after periods of absence. He is also involved in individual psychological coaching, research and teaching.

Apart from clinical work, his current role also involves management, product development, clinical and research supervision and the running of educational programmes on CBT for health professionals (www.cbt-edu.co.uk). He was invited by the International Association for the Study of Pain to be a member of the special interest group in pain and torture and currently sits on its advisory board.

He completed a doctor's degree focusing on black urbanisation and social factors in the South African context and he also acted as facilitator in the reintegration of various armed formations into a unified SA Defence Force in the new democratic South Africa.

He is actively involved in psychological coaching, research and teaching. He is a chartered member of the British Psychological Society and a founders' member of their coaching division.

Our clinical team includes experienced professional consultants across relevant disciplines, including medicine, fitness and exercise science, nutritional medicine, coaching, and health psychology. Our expertise, professionalism, and commitment to quality help to make us stand out as leaders in the field of health and well-being at work.

Positive Health Strategies is supported by a highly experienced senior management team.