How to Build Mentally Healthy and High-Performing Workplaces With Leyla Okhai

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Leyla’s work sits at the intersection of performance and humanity: how culture shows up in daily interactions, how psychological safety gets built (or broken), and why inclusion is inseparable from mental health. She’s led large-scale equality, diversity and inclusion strategy in complex institutions, then took that experience into her own business, helping leaders turn “good intentions” into consistent workplace habits. For consulting firm owners, this is practical. If you’re selling expertise, your team’s ability to collaborate, communicate across differences, and handle pressure is part of your delivery engine. Leyla brings a clear framework for strengthening that engine, through cultural communication, management capability, and wellbeing literacy, without making it vague or performative.

We’ll talk about what clients actually buy in this space, how Leyla positions and sells sensitive topics in the corporate world, and what it takes to create lasting culture change that improves retention, trust, and results.

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Proposed Interview Questions:

1. What led you into building Diverse Minds UK, and how did your early experience in large institutions shape the kind of practice you wanted to create?

2. What is the core problem organisations come to you with today, and why do you think it keeps showing up despite all the talk about wellbeing and inclusion?

3. Who are your ideal clients now, and inside those organisations, who usually becomes the real sponsor of the work?

4. How do organisations typically discover you, and what has worked best for you in positioning sensitive topics like mental health and culture as serious business priorities? Current Aquisition Channels: Referral, Podcast (hosting), Speaking engagements Sub Question:You run an award-winning podcast, how do you see podcasts as a marketing tool for consultants in the leadership, wellbeing, or DEI space?

5. When a potential client is interested but cautious, what helps you move from conversation to commitment, especially with longer sales cycles?

6. Once a client starts working with you, how do you build trust over time and make sure they keep coming back rather than treating this as a one-off initiative?

7. Where do you find yourself most stuck right now (if at all), whether that’s growth, positioning, or deciding what to say no to?

8. Looking ahead, where do you see the biggest opportunities in building mentally healthy, equitable workplaces over the next few years?

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Know more about Leyla Okhai

Website Link: https://diverseminds.co.uk/

Connect with Leyla Okhai on LinkedIn

LinkedIn link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leyla-okhai-diversemindsuk/

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