Mindful Business Charter Community Area

In this Insight Session, (open to all employees of MBC member organisations) we will be hearing from Alastair Young – previously the Regional Managing Partner of the Dentons’ Middle East business and as a member of the Dentons’ Executive Committee, Managing Partner of the Dentons’ Milton Keynes and Dubai offices as well as head of the Dentons’ Middle East dispute resolution team.

“The pressure of work as a senior equity partner in a large law firm is pretty relentless and in 2014 that pressure encroached on every aspect of Alastair’s life. Eventually Alastair realised that he needed help and he took four months off work to obtain the support that he needed. Gradually Alastair began to rebuild his life and in doing so he discovered some of the tools necessary to help him strike a far healthier work and life balance.

Alastair was fortunate enough to make a full recovery and whilst very unpleasant at the time, Alastair now looks back on the events of 2014 with some positivity as he believes that he learned, as a result of those events, to see the world with a much healthier perspective. One of the things Alastair discovered from this time was how to be a different and hopefully better leader, how to empathise more effectively with people and how to better strike the balance we all need in order to lead a rewarding and fulfilling life.

Since retiring from the Law, Alastair has developed a portfolio career, a part of which is dedicated to talking about mental health, resilience and leadership. He runs his own consultancy @ www.thorpedock.com and works also as a Senior Consultant at PSFI www.psfi.com.”

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