Mike Clayton has been stressed all of his life. He has a classic Type A personality, which compels him to do more and more; so learning how to manage his stress has always been a priority – even if making the time to do it hasn’t!

Mike started his career in academic research, before moving to management consultancy to find a more pressured environment. He found it. For 12 years, he served clients in the public, voluntary and commercial sectors, working with organisations like the Ministry of Defence, Transport for London, BAA, Vodafone and General Motors, on behalf of Deloitte.

For the last nine years, Mike has focused on training and speaking. This has given him the opportunity to research what he had already started to learn, and to develop his thinking on how to present it. For the last five years, ‘It ain’t the stress that does the damage’ has been one of Mike’s most popular talks.

Having spent the first 30 years of his life wondering how anyone could live anywhere but London, Mike now lives, with his family, in a small town in Hampshire, which is less stressful by far.