How To Forge Ahead: A Lived Experience Mental Health Playbook for Accountants 2025
Category: Personal Development | Date: 12/06/2025 15:30 | Duration: 1hr | Tag: ATSUK25D3S6 | Type: Webinar | Speaker: Nick Elston
Course Details
Accountants are no strangers to pressure — deadlines, responsibility, accuracy, and constant external demands. But while you're focused on performance and precision, who's focused on you? In this lived experience-led session, mental health speaker and resilience coach Nick Elston shares powerful insights from his personal journey through mental illness, burnout and recovery. This isn’t theory or textbook talk — it's real stories, real tools, and real change. Attendees will explore the emotional impact of modern professional life, learn how to take better care of their wellbeing, and walk away with practical strategies to build resilience, reframe anxiety and step forward with confidence.
In this session Nick Elston will cover the following topics:
- The difference between mental health and mental illness — and why both matter
- How to use storytelling and emotional connection to improve wellbeing and communication
- How to create emotional boundaries and build resilience in high-pressure roles
- Strategies to challenge anxiety and self-doubt through reframing and self-awareness
- A practical self-leadership checklist to support wellbeing, performance and recovery
By attending this session, you will:
- Understand the emotional cost of high-functioning anxiety and perfectionism
- Learn practical, lived-experience-based strategies for resilience and recovery
- Develop stronger self-awareness and tools to support yourself and others
- Be able to separate facts from fear — and challenge unhelpful internal narratives
- Leave with a renewed mindset and tools you can use immediately in both work and life
This session will be particularly relevant for:
- Accountants and finance professionals at all levels
- Tax advisers, auditors, and client-facing professionals
- Business owners and practice leaders
- HR, People and L&D professionals working in finance environments
- Anyone seeking tools to better support themselves and others
Course level: Foundation
CPD Course Speaker
Nick Elston
Nick Elston
Nick Elston is one of the highest-profile and leading Inspirational Speakers on the Lived Experience of Mental Health.
In life, we can either let our adversities, our challenges, define us negatively for the rest of our lives…or…we can choose for it to forge something beautiful, something powerful – something that never would have existed without you going through your ‘stuff’ in the first place.
Described as a ‘BIG man, BIG heart, BIG story & BRUTAL honesty!’, ‘Utterly inspirational, absolutely engaging!’ and ’10/10 – a Speaking Masterclass!’ – Nick shares his experiences of Mental Illness, Mental Ill-Health & Breakdown worldwide – through his powerful, inspiring, engaging & emotional talks.
Most importantly, Nick shares his ‘Lived Experience’ through insights, tools, tips and techniques on how to manage Anxiety in Life, in Business – to implement immediately.
In life, we can either let our adversities, our challenges, define us negatively for the rest of our lives…or…we can choose for it to forge something beautiful, something powerful – something that never would have existed without you going through your ‘stuff’ in the first place.
Described as a ‘BIG man, BIG heart, BIG story & BRUTAL honesty!’, ‘Utterly inspirational, absolutely engaging!’ and ’10/10 – a Speaking Masterclass!’ – Nick shares his experiences of Mental Illness, Mental Ill-Health & Breakdown worldwide – through his powerful, inspiring, engaging & emotional talks.
Most importantly, Nick shares his ‘Lived Experience’ through insights, tools, tips and techniques on how to manage Anxiety in Life, in Business – to implement immediately.