Name: Mental Health in the age of technology.
Start: 2026-01-28T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-28T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Santander Work Cafe

How leaders protect their people and their business performance. Technology speeds work up. Emotional health helps people thrive.
About this Event

This course explores how today’s technology-driven ways of working are quietly reshaping human energy, focus, and resilience at work. As digital tools accelerate pace and expectations, many organisations experience digital overload, always-on cultures, and tech fatigue that blur boundaries and erode recovery time, leading to emotional exhaustion even among high performers.

We will examine the tension between technology-driven behaviours — constant connectivity, rapid task switching, AI-enabled productivity — and the human need for psychological safety, cognitive rest, and sustainable performance.

Participants will explore how AI and automation are changing the way work is organised and executed, using practical use cases to highlight both the benefits and unintended consequences for mental wellbeing.

Crucially, the session equips leaders with practical insight into how to recognise early burnout signals, redesign work practices, and introduce healthier rhythms that protect people while sustaining high performance in an increasingly digital workplace.

Mental Health in the age of technology: how leaders protect their people and their business performance

28th January 2026 10am-12pm, Santander Work Café, 142-144 High Street Kensington, London, W8 7RL

Agenda:

Digital overload

Always-on culture

Tech fatigue

Emotional exhaustion

Technology driven behaviours vs human recovery

AI driven changes in the way we work (use cases)

The healthy use of technology and AI (Best-practices)

Meet the Instructors

Isabella Shedrack, Leadership and Emotional Intelligence Expert, Founder of Isabella Shedrack Coaching & Consulting Ltd, and Author of Mind Over Matter.

Isabella helps professionals and managers develop mindset mastery, resilience, and emotionally intelligent leadership using her MV²G Framework and 6 Pillars Blueprint.

With over a decade of experience in occupational health, Isabella brings a deep understanding of how stress, burnout, and emotional strain affect leadership performance, bridging wellbeing and leadership with practical, real-world insight.

Massimo Maltempi

Senior AI & Business Consultant, Director MaxMal Consulting, ex-IBM, ex-Google.

Massimo brings 30+ years experience in responsibly designing and delivering technology solutions to business and work related challenges. In the last few years, he has assisted companies as they implement AI solutions to ensure ethical delivery of business results, enhance productivity and protect the overall wellbeing of the organisation.

Who should attend

This workshop is suitable for those who hold management positions in companies or are entrepreneurs, practitioners, policymakers, and other professionals who are deploying or are considering deploying technologies (such as AI) in their organisation who want to go a step further and gain better insights into the possibilities offered by current and emerging technologies.