Founded in 2023, The Workplace Collective emerged from a vision to transform workplace experiences through psychology-based approaches that enhance both personal wellbeing and professional performance – brought to life by professionals who had spent years doing exactly that.
April-Joy Serrant, with over 20 years of experience in training delivery across the UK, is the heart of our delivery. As a coach, trainer, and facilitator, she has spent her career developing individuals and teams through transformational coaching, building psychological safety in workplaces long before it became a common conversation. Her deep expertise shapes everything we do.
Alongside April-Joy, Kerry Lawlor contributed her background as an experienced psychotherapist and counsellor, bringing understanding of human psychology, emotional processing, and therapeutic interventions to the early foundations of the business. Her expertise in resilience and navigating difficult emotions helped establish our evidence-based approach.
Together, they recognised a significant gap in the workplace wellness landscape – while many organisations focused on either performance or wellbeing, few were effectively addressing the intrinsic connection between the two.
Their vision was clear: to bridge the therapeutic world with the professional realm, making evidence-based psychological support accessible to individuals in their everyday work lives, not just when they reached points of distress or were positioned at high-performance edges.
They believed that proactive psychological support should be available to everyone, creating workplace environments where personal growth and professional development could flourish simultaneously.
Charlotte Slater joined the team in 2024, bringing over 25 years of experience in organisational development and professional training, including 19 years at board level. As a founding member of a training business that grew to a Group turnover of £20 million across multiple industry sectors, Charlotte leads our business growth and strategic direction.
A University of Leicester graduate in sociology and psychology, Charlotte is CIPD diploma qualified in learning and development, a CIPD member, and an ILM Level 7 qualified Executive Coach. She delivers executive and leadership coaching, leadership training, business mentoring, and teamwork facilitation across a wide range of sectors.
With Charlotte’s strategic leadership alongside April-Joy’s unrivalled training expertise, The Workplace Collective has expanded its capacity to serve more organisations while maintaining a personalised, human-centred methodology.
Our mission
Our mission at The Workplace Collective is simple: We want to improve the lives of people at work through helping them build resilience, improve their wellbeing, and gain greater emotional intelligence, confidence, and clarity.
Our team of psychologists can evidence, through research, that this approach directly improves the performance of individuals, teams, and organisations. But why do we do this? Because people matter. We firmly believe that when you grow people, you grow your business.
We see workplace wellness not as a luxury or a peripheral benefit, but as a fundamental strategic advantage. By bringing therapeutic expertise into professional environments, we help organisations create cultures where people can bring their whole selves to work, address challenges with resilience, communicate with clarity, and collaborate with authentic confidence.
The Workplace Collective stands as a testament to what happens when therapeutic wisdom meets workplace dynamics – creating spaces where individuals don’t just survive at work but genuinely thrive.
Who we work with
If you would like to know more about The Workplace Collective and how we could make a difference in your organisation. Please get in touch with our team for a no-obligation chat.