Healthy Connections

Alex Clapp has owned multiple businesses in the North West including his flagship firm, County Cost Consultant for 23 years. Regarding the costs law sector, County Cost has retained its longevity due to his forward thinking and versatility.

Earlier this year, Alex co-founded Claritee, a corporate wellness company comprising no alcohol corporate events, bespoke corporate training and the recent establishment of a CIO department.

Claritee was born from Alex’s struggle with addiction as a result of a deteriorating eye condition that developed in 2015. With no confirmed diagnosis, Alex resorted to alcohol to cope with his mental health, covering up to family, friends and peers about his affliction. Thankfully, after seeking help, Alex attended multiple rehabilitation centres and has been sober for 9 months.

Through his own plight, Alex endeavoured to help others in a similar situation; individuals in the corporate sphere who may be struggling to admit vulnerabilities. Claritee’s mission is to provide services which encourage individuals to prioritise their wellbeing and instil practices to maintain positive mindsets.

Dr Erica McInnis is a Highly Specialised Chartered Clinical Psychologist who left her post as Lead Psychologist of a community health team after 22 years in the NHS (National Health Service) to create Nubia Wellness and Healing (NWAH) CIC. This company is a leading U.K. provider of innovative African-centred wellness products, workshops, training, and wellness interventions. Under Dr McInnis’s leadership, it developed the UK’s first online adult African Psychology School to bring the best of traditional African wisdom and healing to international audiences.

Dr McInnis was awarded a Churchill Fellowship (2016):
• is currently a visiting lecturer for several University Doctorate in Clinical and Counselling Psychology training programme
• supervises senior level psychologists
• delivered training for the British Psychological Society (BPS) on wellness (2022)
• is registered as a Practicing Psychologist with the HCPC
• is a Professional Member of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi), and
• has publications in several peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.

Speaking engagements include Kensington Palace (London, 2019), The High Commission for Trinidad and Tobago (Belgravia, London, 2019), a Mental Health Foundation (MHF) Podcast (aired July 2020), a Mentally Yours podcast (aired November 2020), and for BBC Radio 4 (award-winning Black Girls Don’t Cry, 2019) programme. She is Black British of Jamaican
parentage and proud to serve.

Maria Mander is a renowned Wellbeing, DEI & Culture Consultant with over six years of expertise in delivering transformative wellbeing strategies. As the founder of Mander Wellbeing, Maria specialises in developing positive work environments that enhance employee health, engagement, and productivity. With a holistic approach and a wealth of experience, Maria offers invaluable insights into creating high-performing workforces for the future.

Founded by Daniel Meyer-Lopez, a qualified Solicitor with over 20 years’ legal and management experience and a former Partner of a Law Firm, Hybrid HR provides tailored, end-to-end advice up to and including the Employment Tribunal. They are not a call centre, they are not ‘scripted’ and we don’t believe in a one-size fits all approach, our service is truly tailored to each organisation.

They really believe that if you look after your staff they will work hard for you and the company will be profitable – it’s not rocket science.

Hybrid HR can help with all aspects of HR consultancy on an outsourced basis including contracts of employment, company handbooks, assisting or chairing disciplinary, grievance and redundancy consultation meetings, employee engagement, TUPE transfers and employment tribunal representation.