The fabric
of work
We started honne because mental wellbeing isn’t a luxury — it’s the foundation for great work.
Too often, we see organisations full of brilliant people running on empty. Burned out, overstretched, and under pressure to perform in ways that are ultimately unsustainable. The consequences are everywhere: rising stress, strained relationships, overloaded EAP programmes and GP surgeries, and collateral damage to business results.
But we also see great leaders who are changing how their organisations work — creating the conditions for people to perform well and thrive together. We studied those outliers, and we learned something powerful:
Mental wellbeing at work comes from taking a systemic approach to reshaping everyday behaviours, systems, and ways of working — so that wellbeing and performance reinforce each other, strengthening the very fabrics and foundations of a workplace.
When organisations invest in mental wellbeing, performance soars. We’ve seen this play out again and again. When organisations build the conditions for both wellbeing and strong performance, they don’t just cope with change — they lead it.
We are psychologists on a mission to change the workplace for good. Our work is rooted in evidence-based psychology and shaped by a deep understanding of organisational systems and leadership.
Founded in 2017 and based in the UK but working globally, our team has extensive experience in helping clients to uncover the cultural forces at play in their organisations, to tackle underlying systemic influences and to evolve their ways of working in a way that uplifts mental wellbeing, performance, and purpose.
Jonathan
Stott
Stott
Chartered Psychologist,
honne co-founder
Jonathan is a highly experienced executive coach and chartered psychologist. Warm and informal in style, he creates a safe and confidential environment for working one to one with leaders. Learning the context in which they live and work, he ensures that they have established the resources they need to take on the challenges of their role, and supports them to take bold, authentic, and often transformative, steps in their careers.
Jonathan has deep experience in supporting senior leaders in voluntary and public sector organisations, with particular experience in frontline healthcare, animal welfare, and mental health organisations. As a business founder and voluntary sector leader himself, he understands the demands and constraints of leaders in the context of complex, open-ended societal challenges. Clients describe Jonathan as insightful, trustworthy, challenging, and enthusiastic.
Jonathan lives in South West Wales with his family. To keep fit he enjoys trail running with his border collie, downhill mountain biking, and bouldering. He is an accomplished musician, writing, recording and performing neo-classical work. Aside from co-founding and leading honne, he is establishing a community mental health startup to address the mental health crisis in economic disadvantaged communities across the UK.
Jill
Williams
Williams
Organisational Psychologist,
honne co-founder
Jill is an organisational psychologist and executive coach who works with organisations, teams, and individual leaders to unlock meaningful, sustainable change. With a strong focus on psychological wellbeing and systemic awareness, Jill helps clients create healthier workplace cultures, more connected and effective teams, and leadership that’s confident, adaptive, and ready.
Whether working at an organisational level or one-on-one, Jill brings a rare combination of deep insight and practical tools. She’s known for her ability to challenge with compassion, holding space for reflective thinking while guiding clients towards action and impact. Her approach helps people understand the systems they operate in, build clarity and resilience, and make changes that last.
Jill has extensive experience consulting, facilitating, and coaching across the public, voluntary, and private sectors. Her clients include the NHS, Deloitte, LVMH, St John Ambulance, and Missing People. Before becoming a coach and consultant, she held senior HR roles—including as a European HR Director—giving her a firsthand understanding of the pressures and possibilities of organisational life.
Currently pursuing a PhD in Organisational Psychology, Jill is researching leadership and workplace cultures that support mental health and deliver positive societal outcomes. She lives in London with her partner and young son, and recharges through travel and yoga.
