ABOUT TENNEILE MANENTI. WORKPLACE MENTAL HEALTH, WELLBEING, CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP PSYCHOLOGIST

I am a mum to two beautiful boys, 1 and 4 years old, who is passionate about home and work. Who would have thought that you could have it all. I am a driven, focussed and passionate mental health, wellbeing, and safety professional who specialises in the application of psychology, neuroscience, culture and risk to business problems!

I am a Registered Psychologist with a varied background in criminal and clinical psychology now working in organisational psychology. I always joke that while I trained to be a criminal psychologist I quickly learnt that there were more psychopaths in business than their was in prison and hence the sideways shift (just joking)!

My early career did though spark my interest in how organisations, leaders and teams behave and the ensuing outcomes in terms of culture, wellbeing and mental health. I have worked in consulting for over 10 years now and love it! I have had the opportunity to travel a lot in my career with working in South Africa a notable highlight!

Another career highlight was working as a Trauma Psychologist supporting emergency services, rail, banks with critical incident response and psychological first aid. What a meaningful and impactful job! In my current role as Senior Manager at Deloitte I have the opportunity to look more holistic at organisations and consider their wellbeing and safety risks to their business and apply principles of psychology, cultural change and transformation to help organsiations shift the dial and help keep their employees healthy, safe and well.