London workplace mental health specialist celebrates “best-in-class” acquisition

In celebration of Time to Talk Day, Unmind, a London based provider of workplace mental health solutions, has announced the launch of Unmind Talk, a new product that aims to change the way employees access mental health and wellbeing support.

Unmind Talk is the result of the recent acquisition of Frankie Health, the “best-in-class” digital platform that connects a global network of mental health practitioners to corporate clients. Unmind supports “some of the world’s leading organisations” including Uber, Major League Baseball, Nationwide, Standard Chartered, MediaCom and British Airways.

The Unmind platform provides organisations with anonymised global data and insights, helping employers drive informed decisions to aid employee wellbeing.

Research and analytics ‘join the dots’ between employee turnover, absenteeism and mental ill-health, empowering businesses to measure, shape and prove the impact of their workplace wellbeing strategy.

Unmind CEO and co-founder, Dr Nick Taylor, commented: “Today marks a significant milestone in the Unmind journey. Unmind will always advocate that prevention is better than cure, but in order to fulfil our vision and become the most trusted and effective global partner for transforming organisational and employee mental health, we must do more.

“From the very first days of Unmind, we knew we could drive change by combining the best of science with scalable, digital tools. Extending that further by integrating expert human services allows us to fully support our members through the flow of care, giving them frictionless access to quality practitioners from around the world.”

Frankie Health co-founders, James McGann and Seb Poole, along with the rest of the Frankie Health team, will be joining Unmind to continue their mission.

James said: “We started Frankie Health to build the future of employee mental health. It was so exciting to meet Nick and see that Unmind has the same vision. It’s widely acknowledged that Unmind develops the best-in-class preventative support.

“Frankie Health has the highest quality global community of therapists and coaches. Combined we can achieve our shared vision of empowering progressive companies and their global workforces.”

Seb added: “The traditional Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) model is broken. Despite the growing need for mental health support in the workplace, traditional EAP call centres are often unable to meet the demands of employees. We can make so much more of an impact by providing a modern, progressive solution with easy access to expert practitioners.”

By Matthew Neville – Senior Correspondent, Bdaily

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