Our Story
How to Manage Stress at Work – and Why It’s So Powerful
The Genesis of Stress Matters
The Catalyst: Personal Burnout
In 2017, award-winning career coach and wellbeing advocate Laura Capell-Abra resolved to share how to manage stress at work with as many organizations as possible. Laura was a high achiever, leading a renowned international event agency. To external perceptions, she was living the dream. But inside, she was experiencing debilitating burnout — and the painful realization it was negatively impacting not only her own health and wellbeing, but also potentially the business.
The Mission: Sharing Solutions
Stress Matters was created in direct response to the relentless pressures faced by employees of high-octane industries, where stress in the workplace is rife. It was born out of lived experience of the toll stress takes on individuals, teams, and entire organizations.
The Impact: Actionable Strategies
Laura did what she does best, translating the complex challenges of how to manage stress at work with practical, actionable, high-impact solutions.
The Problem with Stress in the Workplace
Stress Matters began as a support network helping the events and hospitality sectors understand how to manage stress at work. But it rapidly grew into a bold, data-led, B Corp-certified workplace wellbeing consultancy, supporting businesses across multiple industries.
Our team brings lived experience, specialist knowledge, and a shared commitment to clarifying and transforming the way organisations approach mental health.
Because here’s the truth:
Deloitte research shows every £1 spent on supporting mental health delivers, on average, a £4.70 return in productivity.
As for organisations that have already started their workplace wellbeing journeys, many initiatives remain stuck at well-intentioned yet under-performing:
Only 10% of employees with access to an EAP (employee assistance programme) actually use it.
That’s not how to manage stress at work. That’s paperwork.
Stress Matters is different.
We don’t do off-the-shelf. In contrast, we work with you, creating a long-term strategy for managing stress in the workplace and embedding wellbeing into the way you do business.
Why Work with Us?
- Performance: Help your people feel their best, so they can give their best.
- Peace of mind: Rest assured you’ve done all you can to support your people with stress in the workplace, and have the evidence to defend it.
- Clear ROI: Track, learn and evolve, so you always see progress.
- Built around you: Nothing is generic. Everything is tailored.
- Impact-led: Leverage data to drive outcomes, not just good intentions.
- Workplace wellbeing made easy: Lift the admin burden as Stress Matters acts as an extension of your team.
- Specialists in distributed and remote workforces: Meet your people where they are, literally and emotionally.
Want a happier, more productive workforce? Of course you do! But first, you need to understand how to manage stress at work and be equipped with the tools to make it happen.
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Special Rates
All association and community partner members receive special discounts on Stress Matters services
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