How to Position Mental Health as a Strategic Workforce Priority

About the Panel Discussion

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. But awareness alone won’t fix what HR leaders are seeing.

Nearly 30% of employees are experiencing silent burnout, and 40% of those who have experienced burnout report being physically present but mentally checked out. At the same time, 61% of organizations say mental health leaves are rising, with disability and LOA growth becoming a top leadership concern, according to Spring Health’s latest research. 

This goes beyond burnout. It’s a growing business risk.

Mental health benefits influence when employees decide to join or stay. But many employees don’t know what support is available, and many never use them.

Traditional EAPs often activate at crisis point, missing the everyday stress and disengagement that quietly erode performance and retention, leading to higher-cost challenges down the road.

During Mental Health Awareness Month, the question is simple: How do we move from awareness to measurable reconnection?

Join us for a  LIVE and interactive discussion with senior HR and benefits leaders as we  explore how to shift mental health strategy from crisis response to continuous workforce support. You’ll hear how leading organisations are tackling leave growth, strengthening engagement and connecting mental health investment to measurable business outcomes, ensuring wellbeing is positioned as infrastructure, not just intervention.

Discussion Topics

• When Burnout Becomes a Workforce Performance Issue: Understand how silent burnout and presenteeism surface in productivity, retention, and engagement data, and why they can no longer be treated as isolated wellbeing issues.

• Why Rising Leave Signals a Strategic Risk: Explore what mental health leave growth reveals about organisational pressure, workforce design and gaps in early support.

• From Crisis Response to Continuous Support: Examine where traditional models fall short and what it takes to build proactive mental health strategies that address everyday stress before it escalates.

• Connecting Mental Health Investment to Measurable Outcomes: Discover how leading organisations are aligning mental health strategy with business performance, workforce stability, and long-term enterprise resilience.