Instructor Profile

Jeremy Old has thirty years experience as an independent management psychologist, psychotherapist and management coach. He created this powerful mental health first aid training course because he discovered, through his time as a management coach, that his intervention at a mental health level has often resulted in massive changes in both individual and group performance. He now realizes that ultimately only healthy people can make healthy organizations and healthy communities. This realization has led him to focus more and more on the mental health of people in organizational settings and also the multiple factors that get in the way of people experiencing ‘productive well-being’ (happiness) at work. In both his management work and psychotherapy, Jeremy uses the powerful ‘Human Givens’ approach to psychotherapy. The reason being that he has found the methods routinely relieve people, in one or two sessions. And this means relief from a range of disorders including depression, phobias, panic attacks, PTSD, chronic anxiety, and anger. “I really get a sense that I am helping someone when I can apply this simple knowledge and some simple techniques and see the light come back in their lives after only one session. Such knowledge is transformational and yet easy to both understand and apply.” Jeremy’s management work led him to author the acclaimed book ‘Reinventing management thinking – Using science to liberate the human spirit’. This explains the role that stress plays in undermining organizational productivity and performance and therefore the value of humanizing the workplace. Or as he puts it ‘making the organization fit for human habitation’. Jeremy tells managers that “If you can use this knowledge, you will make massive performance improvements just by convenient adjustments to your management style, operational structures and decision-making processes. I have always found that the results far outweigh any costs of making the necessary changes”.