Case studies & interviews

Writing in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2026, Heather Smith, CEO at AXA Health, explains why people, businesses and the economy will all thrive when wellbeing is truly at the heart of your organisation.

In this case study article, taken from REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2026, Lauren Lunniss, health and wellbeing lead at BNP Paribas, details how it is utilising integrated pathways to better connect and support employee health and wellbeing. 

Elton Dorkin, chief health and medical officer at Rio Tinto, discusses the need for proactive preventative health programmes to enhance employee productivity.

Tom Hadley, independent consultant, keynote speaker and director of Youth Employment UK, details how to harness the five forces of workforce change.

Dr. Wolfgang Seidl, formerly global workforce health & global mental health consulting leader at Marsh, discusses the barriers to preventative health initiatives and the importance of workplace health screening programmes.

Edyta Prazuch, AI and digital HR lead at Mercer UK, explains how internal structures can better support the skills needed to unlock AI-driven gains.

Arianne Riddell, chief client officer at Personal Group explores the need to close the gap between benefits and uptake to address escalating sickness absence cases.

Niall Degan, strategic broking lead at Aon, discusses the data most organisations already collect, why they aren’t fully utilising it and why a business doesn’t need a perfectly formed data lake to make better data decisions.

Anca del Rio, advisor, digital healthy systems & AI governance, speaks to REBA's content director Jo Gallacher about how organisations are using AI and data to spot health risks earlier. 

By sharing job classification information, the organisation aims to help employees understand their current roles, the requirements for progression, and potential lateral or vertical career paths, as Ian Wright, director, total rewards explains. This article features in REBA's report, How organisations close skills gaps and redesign pay for an AI-integrated future, written in partnership with Marsh.

Becky Stewardson, senior reward and benefits manager at Aurora Energy Research, explains how its rapid global expansion is shifting its approach to pay and hiring new talent.

Catherine Ritchie, senior wellbeing and people experience manager at Clifford Chance, discussed the importance of simplifying the benefits user journey and being cautious about the use of awareness days for health support, during REBA’s recent webinar. 

Anca del Rio, advisor, digital healthy systems & AI governance, discusses the role of AI in future-proofing workforce health and resilience.

With costs rising, risks shifting and workforces diversifying, Matthias Helmbold, VP global risk benefits, health and wellbeing at DHL, discusses how to build global consistency across health and wellbeing benefits.

Matthew Reed, CEO and co-founder at Equipsme, discusses different approaches to healthcare that balance cost, access and engagement across the whole workforce.

Andrea Csigir, global benefits and organisational design manager, Tetra Pak, uncovers how the organisation realised it needed a different approach to medical benefits and what it did to achieve this globally.

During REBA’s February webinar Ashton Taggart, head of rewards UKI and programmes at Experian, detailed why it’s the small things that can make the biggest difference to the workforce.