Ryan Hopkins.

Ryan Hopkins has spent his career asking a question the health and wellbeing industry often avoids: did any of it actually work?

He is the award-winning founder of Healthi, the bestselling author of 52 Weeks of Wellbeing, published in seven languages, and a two-time TEDx speaker. His work explores the messy relationship between health, work, technology and human behaviour, and what organisations can practically do to improve both people’s lives and their performance.

Before advising executives and speaking to audiences worldwide, he dispensed prescriptions, sold mortgages, worked as an apprentice electrician, managed bars and ran nightclub doors. He understands work from the frontline to the boardroom and can connect with everyone, regardless of role.

At Deloitte, Ryan built and led the Global Future of Wellbeing consulting business, replacing activity counts and annual surveys with a data-led way of understanding how work affects people and performance (positively impacting ≈500k people). At Bupa, Ryan continued to drive change, combining health claims, clinical pathways and workforce data to show Bupa’s UK (4.2m people) and global customers (40m) what was driving ill health, which interventions improved outcomes and where people were getting lost in the healthcare system.

He is now building Healthi to unite employers, insurers, healthcare providers, industry bodies and government around a shared goal: understand the true cost of ill health, prove the value of investing in people and help more people reach the right support earlier.

Ryan has delivered more than 200 keynotes to over 110,000 people and hosted major conferences for Bupa and SAP, including audiences in their thousands. He has spoken for organisations including Google, Amazon, BP, Dyson, Coca-Cola, Bupa, the NHS, BBC, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Salesforce, Workday and Chanel.

On stage, Ryan is honest, deeply researched and funny. He has little interest in telling people to become more resilient while ignoring the systems exhausting them. He makes complicated evidence understandable, difficult subjects easier to discuss and wellbeing relevant even to the cynical, engaging ≈25 million people in the process; his work earned him the UK’s Breaking the Silence Award.

•  2026 Outstanding Use of Technology; Best Wellbeing Support Service; Outstanding Health & Protection Leader of the Year (Highly Commended)
• 2025 Breaking the Silence Award; Platform of the Year
•  2024 UK Start Up of the Year
• 2023 Wellbeing Consultancy of the Year (Highly Commended)
• 2022 Global Emerging Wellbeing Leader of the Year

• Mental Health and Wellbeing

• Neurodiversity (Autism & ADHD awareness and inclusion)

• Personal Resilience & Recovery 

• Leadership & Culture Transformation

• Creating Inclusive Workplaces

• Behavioural Change & Habit Formation

“Your talk was one of the best things I have seen/heard in years and I wanted to give you that feedback. I have seen loads of these things but the energy, engagement and humour you brought to the topic was first class and was most definitely the highlight of a very very long (warm!) day.”

-Ministry of Justice

“His energy and down-to-earth style really connected with the team. The session was engaging and insightful, leaving people motivated and more mindful about their daily choices. Highly recommend Ryan for any team looking to boost wellbeing and spark meaningful reflection”. 

-Bupa Global

“Ryan is one of those rare speakers who instantly puts a room at ease. When he delivered a talk to our internal audience at Experian, he brought warmth, humility and humour to a topic that’s often difficult to navigate.” 

-Experian

‘Ryan was incredible – so much energy, passion and a perfect blend of great personal storytelling alongside pragmatic tips for us all to take better care of our wellbeing. Ryan was honest about his own experiences with neurodiversity, and this was hugely inspiring; his vulnerability has given our colleagues the opportunity and platform to share their own experiences too which is so powerful. We had a record colleague turnout for Ryan’s talk – even more special when it’s our busiest business period. 2 days later we’re still on a high.’ 

–Inclusion and Diversity Manager – Kingfisher

‘Just wanted to say how much I appreciated your call with Unily today. Even though I don’t vocalise too much I have had my own struggles that still effect me every day and have a lot of compassion for anyone speaking out on normalising the conversation. I am definitely taking a couple of pointers from your talk. Sometimes it’s simple things but a bit of a refresher put things in perspective and that’s exactly what happened to me today’

–HR Leader – Unily

‘I watched you with complete captivation and you were truly AMAZING. Super inspirational! Thank you for all you are doing to change the narrative of mental health out there in the world’.

-TEDx audience feedback