Making Business Human

WorkMad was set up in response to the growing number of organisations wanting to know what they can do to keep their professional teams motivated and engaged, maintain their resilience during times of change and increase their well-being, particularly when the going gets tough.

At WorkMad we use a strengths-based approach to motivate and engage employees who are working in these demanding change environments. We identify and build on existing team strengths, focussing on how they can be used to develop lasting resilience, as well as create the basis for effective team-building and personal development in the future. We work with organisations in the public sector as well as the private sector – for example teachers, psychologists, accountants and IT managers.

Human nature being what it is you may not always relish change; at WorkMad we can support you in acquiring the necessary personal skills, knowledge and behaviours to survive it, and thrive on it.

Using consulting, training and group facilitation approaches, Bridget Grenville-Cleave and team of associate trainers and coaches have worked with large organisations as well as smaller independent clients in a variety of industries.

Bridget has one of a handful of psychologists to have completed the MSc in Applied Positive Psychology at the University of East London – the first qualification of its kind in Europe – in which she specialised in the well-being of organisations and professionals.

She is a founder member of the International Positive Psychology Association and writes a regular column for the online journal, Positive Psychology News Daily. She is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, MBA (Open), and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Our Associates

Miriam Akhtar 

Miriam holds the Masters in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) with Distinction from the University of East London (UEL). She is now an associate lecturer on the MAPP @ UEL training up the next generation of positive psychologists.

With a background as a BBC producer, Miriam won the Medical Journalists’ Gold Award and a Sony Gold Award for her work at BBC Radio 4 and the Golden Gate Award for one of her Channel 4 social history programmes while working at Testimony Films. She is the co-author of three social history books and writes for newspapers, magazines and several websites – Positive Psychology UK and Positive Psychology New s Daily.

She first came across positive psychology while making a Radio 4 programme on the science of happiness in the nineties. This led to a decade of research into the field and training in NLP and coaching to put the knowledge she’d acquired into practice with clients. She works with organisations predominantly in the education and health sectors as well as coaching, writing and giving talks on positive psychology.

Miriam is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association and the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology.

Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts MSc (Pos. Psych), BA(Hons), ACA, MSCEIT, YTTC. I trained first as an economist and worked in the field of Corporate Finance for over 14 years in the UK, US, Japan and Australia. In my second career I re-trained as a Life Coach, Yoga teacher and Massage therapist. I’ve had extensive experience teaching Wellbeing and Stress Management courses both in small groups and on a one to one basis.

I completed the Masters degree in Applied Positive Psychology at the University of East London in 2009. In addition I became an accredited Emotional Intelligence coach and trained with the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology in Strengths Coaching.

I also work on a part time basis as a volunteer for YourStory, a youth development charity. My passion is to help foster creativity, productivity and above all wellbeing and happiness in all areas of people’s lives, especially the workplace. To do this I have created imaginative training courses which fuse ideas from Life Coaching, Positive Psychology and Eastern philosophies.

Get in touch

If you would like more information about WorkMad and about our Putting Positive Psychology To Work programmes for organisations, please get in touch.

Our Clients include

• Alpro Soya

• Deutsche Bank

• Juniper Networks

• Gloucestershire County Council

• Haberdashers

• Lancashire County Council

• London Metropolitan University

• McGregor Boyall Associated Ltd

• NHS

• Polkadot Solutions Ltd

• Richmond Towers Communications

• Southcot Services Ltd

• ThinkPublic

• Thomson Reuters

• University of East London

• WomeninTechnology