Employee mental health is not an afterthought – Steve Peralta, co-founder, Unmind

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Steve Peralta, co-founder of Unmind, discusses the problem with the majority of corporate mental health programmes, why the world of work so often leads to deteriorating mental health, and how psychology-backed tech platforms can help.

Unmind is workplace wellbeing platform that partners with brands to offer employee mental health support. Peralta co-founded Unmind in 2016 having previously from a corporate wellbeing background alongside former NHS clinical psychologist Dr Nick Taylor. Peralta explains how so many workplace wellbeing policies are reactive, waiting from problems to occur before they even begin to try to help.

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0:00.0	Unfortunately, your brain and your body is not going to care about your goals or your pressures, all the demands. Like there are certain needs that just have to be met.
0:20.0	From a leadership like there are certain needs that just have to be met.
0:28.6	From a leadership perspective, just not using the office as like a form of control.
0:35.6	If it's done that way people will pick that up, it'll lead to, you know, less than ideal outcome.
0:40.3	People drive innovation. So when those people are creative and collaborative
0:44.3	and supporting one another,
0:46.3	and when they are healthy,
0:48.3	they tend to be more creative and innovative, right?
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1:26.9	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:33.0	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:37.1	I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I'm joined by Steve Peralta, the co-founder of Unmind, a mental
1:43.9	health platform. Welcome, Steve.
1:46.0	Thanks, Jane. Good to be here. Now, let's start by talking a little bit about you and what led you to found
1:51.9	a mind. I noticed that your accent suggests that maybe your journey didn't start in the UK. So,
1:57.6	give us a little bit of a synopsis of what happened before our mind came along.
2:02.5	Yeah, sure. So African, I'm sure that's what you can hear. In fact, in the early days of my
2:07.3	co-founder used to joke that whenever he used to call me, I said to be sitting on a beach with
2:13.3	my laptop in Ketau while he was in dreary London. Yeah, myself, my co-founder, we met about 10, 11
2:20.2	years ago. He is a clinical psychologist, so he was working in the NHS at the time. And I had
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