Andrew Pain

Andrew is a TEDx and CPD accredited, mental health speaker, podcaster, award-winning campaigner and author. Andrew serves diverse organisations, from Specsavers to National Highways, HSBC, The Crown Estate, NFU Mutual, Universities, Schools and Colleges etc. Andrew has over 20 years' post-graduate experience and is on a mission to break down the barriers which prevent communities from thriving, and to create workplace cultures rooted in psychological safety, where everyone feels that they belong, are valued and seen, and where people feel safe to talk openly about potentially contentious/sensitive topics.

His podcast, Men on Show (60 episodes and still going) explores the stories and work of everyday male heroes and leading researchers/thinkers in the men's wellbeing field, in order to spread positive masculinity stories, to inspire the creation of new communities and showcase powerful male role models for the next generation of men. Themes covered so far, include: sobriety, addiction, PTSD, the testosterone crisis, men's communities, education and boys, fatherhood and GRIT.

His popular TEDx talk (140K+ views) is one of the only TED/TEDx talks which examines the taboo issue of female perpetrated violence, drawing on his lived experience and wider research, with the aim of creating awareness of male victims of domestic abuse, whilst also bringing men, women, people together to tackle domestic abuse.

Andrew is also a father of 5, including 3 boys under 12, which means he's a warzone reporter, triage nurse, health and safety officer, tutor, cook, cleaner, bribery and blackmailing guru, general zoo-keeper and failing caretaker. It also means is daily FitBit step count is never less than 15K.