Kelly Holmes appointed Personal Group Holdings Chief Wellness Officer

Double Olympic Champion, Dame Kelly Holmes MBE, has been appointed Chief Wellness Ambassador at Personal Group Holdings (PGH).

The announcement extends the working partnership between Dame Kelly and PGH, with the Olympian having previously contributed to the design of their health and well-being App ‘Hapi.’

Holmes won Gold medals at both the 800m and 1500m events at the Athens 2004 Olympic games. The author, soldier and mental health activist is also in high demand on the motivational speaking circuit.

As a result of Holmes appointment the Company will significantly extend its workforce centric mental health platform, Hapi.

The appointment is for an initial period of one year.

Deborah Frost, Chief Executive Officer, Hapi commented: "I am extremely proud to introduce Dame Kelly Holmes as Personal Group's first Chief Wellbeing Ambassador.

“Dame Holmes is our inspiration for proving what determination, resilience and taking responsibility for your own mental and physical wellbeing can do.

"With her inspirational international sporting achievements and longstanding mental health awareness advocacy, we look forward to benefitting from her wealth of knowledge in the development and evolution of our own wellbeing offering.

“We are also excited to be sharing our knowledge with our clients, to improve their capacity to build resilience in their workforce and help them thrive in life and at work.

“Dame Kelly's appointment and our new wellbeing content, which is available for clients as a 'Transform' module in our Hapi Benefits platform, increases the breadth of Personal Group's workforce benefits and underlines our commitment to providing clients with the tools they need to support their people in a truly meaningful way."

Hon Colonel Dame Kelly Holmes MBE, Double Olympic Champion, said: "Throughout my career, I have found a common thread to normalise the conversation around Mental Health awareness.

"I have seen first-hand the benefits that meaningful physical and mental wellbeing support brings, both for individual workers and for the culture of the businesses as a whole.

"I'm therefore extremely excited to be working with Personal Group, as Chief Wellbeing Ambassador, to help organisations better provide their people with the tools they need to thrive both in and outside the workplace."

Article published on The Business Magazine on 03 March 2022.