Founded in 2023, The Workplace Collective emerged from a powerful partnership between April-Joy Serrant and Kerry Lawlor, two professionals united by a shared vision: to transform workplace experiences through psychology-based approaches that enhance both personal wellbeing and professional performance.
April-Joy, with over 20 years of experience in Training Delivery, brought her extensive expertise as a coach, trainer, and facilitator to the partnership. Her background in developing both individuals and teams through transformational coaching, coupled with her understanding of how to create psychological safety in workplace environments, has been instrumental in shaping our approach.
Kerry, as an experienced psychotherapist and counsellor, contributed her deep understanding of human psychology, emotional processing, and therapeutic interventions. Her expertise in helping people navigate difficult emotions and build resilience provides a strong foundation for our evidence-based programmes.
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.
The founders’ 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.
In May 2024, their duo evolved into a trio when Charlotte Slater joined the team. Charlotte has worked in the professional training and coaching sector for over 20 years and brings valuable business leadership experience as a founding member of a startup training and consultancy business that grew to a Group turnover of £20 million, serving multiple industry sectors.
A graduate from the University of Leicester with a degree in sociology and psychology, Charlotte has maintained her focus on people throughout her career. She is CIPD diploma qualified in learning and development and a CIPD member and an ILM 7 qualified Executive Coach, combining her business acumen with expertise in learning and development to deliver executive and leadership coaching, leadership training, business mentoring, and teamwork facilitation.
With Charlotte on board, The Workplace Collective expanded its capacity to serve more organisations while maintaining their 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.