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.
