More About Joe Tudor

Joe Tudor’s research with over 1,000 UK adults revealed the need to change our approach to mental health. Using these insights, he launched the social enterprise Reconnect Club—alongside a leading clinical psychologist—helping people find community and tools to grow from depression. The pilot, evaluated by the University of East London, reported excellent outcomes. Joe shares the stories behind his research to challenge the current approach to mental health, including co-presenting the British Psychological Society’s ‘Understanding Depression’ training and speaking at TEDxNHS, where he offered the NHS a different understanding of depression. 

Joe began his career in recruitment before moving into enterprise sales at one of the world’s largest tech companies. Despite outward success, he battled depression and anxiety, using work to mask his pain. Burnout and sleepless nights pushed him to see a doctor, who diagnosed depression and attributed it to a chemical imbalance, leaving him feeling broken and withdrawing from life. He took more sick leave and nearly quit his career. Everything changed when a therapist helped Joe see his depression as a response to life events rather than a chemical imbalance, restoring his hope for the future.

Joe is now determined to help other people and organisations find the hope, tools, and community needed to grow from life’s toughest times. He challenges organisations to rethink mental health through authentic, thought-provoking talks that resonate.

Most importantly, Joe helps to create a conversation and culture where people feel able to speak up and connect.

Joe Tudor | Popular Keynotes:

The Mental Health Toolkit

With so much labelling, stigma and generic advice about mental health, genuine support is hard to find. Joe shares his story, research, and practical tools to help people build their own mental health toolkit. This keynote is thought-provoking and inspires teams to connect, open up, and find what really works.

Key Takeaways:

Effective, practical tools to reduce mental health struggles and build resilience, providing a stronger foundation for personal and professional growth.

A clear, hopeful, and less confusing approach to mental health that replaces stigma and overwhelm with understanding and actionable steps.

Ways for colleagues to establish deeper, more authentic connections, creating a supportive environment where people can thrive.

Toxic Fuel: Is it driving your team?

Finding the balance between high performance and burnout is one of the toughest challenges for driven teams. Drawing on his experience in both sales and mental health, Joe offers practical insights for any fee-earning or high-performing team. Together, we’ll explore what truly drives us and discover how to create a culture where people can share openly and achieve sustainable success without burning out.

Key Takeaways:

Identify the ‘toxic fuels’ that often drive high performance and learn how to transform these motivations into sustainable, healthier sources of drive.

Discover how to authentically connect with high performers, keeping them engaged and motivated.

Learn how to manage emotional blocks effectively to prevent burnout while maintaining high performance.

Beyond the Labels: What Leaders Need to Know About Mental Health

Even as awareness grows and new labels emerge, more people are stepping away from work without turning to the support on offer. Joe shares his first-hand experience with the mental health system, along with shocking stories and research, to help you feel more able to foster connection and positive change within your organisation.

Key Takeaways:

Gain practical insight into how to genuinely connect with and support colleagues experiencing mental health challenges.

Develop empathy through understanding mental health and burnout from the real-life perspective of employees navigating the system.

Learn how to shift mental health in your organisation from a problem to be managed into an opportunity for growth, resilience, and cultural transformation.

Joe will be launching his podcast Reconnect at the end of April, but here’s a sneak peak of what he’s been working on:

Why your brain isn’t broken: Updating Your Survival Strategies

Alongside clinical psychologist Anders Sorensen, they discuss why our mental health struggles are more likely to be logical survival strategies rather than symptoms of a broken brain. By decoding our emotions as signals rather than disorders, we can update these outdated patterns to find a more freeing, sustainable way to live.

What your depression is trying to tell you

Ignoring a dashboard warning light doesn’t fix the engine; it just makes the eventual breakdown more expensive. Alongside psychotherapist James Scurry, they reframe mental distress as a signal to look under the bonnet rather than a fault to be ignored. By choosing clean pain over dirty pain, they show how to treat mental health as a training regime for life’s inevitable challenges.

Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great British Speakers today to book Joe Tudor for your corporate event. 

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