Rickard Luckin: Chartered Accountants and Tax Advisers
Calmer Workplace Case Study
Kate Bell, People Director at Rickard Luckin, shares her experience of working with Calmer to develop their firms ongoing company-wide Wellbeing Programme since 2020.
Rickard Luckin’s offices are based in Essex, UK.
“We have been working with Calmer for over four years now and have built a great relationship with Tania and her team. We treat Calmer as our “wellbeing partners” as they have been there to support us throughout our journey in building our wellbeing strategy as a firm.
The key to this successful partnership is how Calmer have really taken the time to listen to us and understand us as a firm; to understand the challenges and demands of working in professional services generally, to understand our plans and aspirations, and are willing to share their thoughts and experience to help guide us. Calmer have taken on board our focus to truly embed wellbeing into the DNA of our firm and respect that this means we need a tailored approach and we are not looking to simply buy “off the shelf” wellbeing training.
Calmer have helped us to create a Wellbeing Champions group, to train and guide these Champions and help them to formalise their own strategy to ensure this is sustained within the firm and just becomes part of our day to day. They have helped us to work proactively with the leadership team and openly discuss the challenges that are in any business that ultimately sells their teams’ time and expertise.
R-L: Calmer founder Tania Diggory with Rickard Luckin employees Julie Thomas, Darren Clarke and Sarah Johnston.
Calmer have provided training to every single member of our team and framed this training to align with our roles as leaders, as managers, and our team members.
We have a rolling flexible programme with Calmer covering a blend of structured mental health training, refresher sessions and guest webinar masterclasses and workshops, where we explore topics linked to wellbeing with our team.
We are proud of how far we have come with embedding wellbeing into the fabric of our firm, and are grateful to Calmer for all their help and guidance in helping us to achieve this. This has been reflected in our Best Companies results. Our wellbeing score (that is underpinned by factors such as work and home life balance as well as how we manage pressure to perform well) has significantly improved since we have partnered with Calmer. The programme has been instrumental in creating a healthier and happier work environment.
We would highly recommend Calmer to any company looking to start or enhance their wellbeing programme. Their programmes are comprehensive, impactful and delivered with genuine care and professionalism.
Kate Bell is the People Director at Rickard Luckin and sits on the Executive Team. She leads on all HR and People Development matters, supporting colleagues throughout the firm. Kate passionately believes in building a workplace culture that inspires team members to fulfil their potential, whether that involves providing the solid foundation and work experience platform required to support our trainees in their initial training to qualification or supporting colleagues looking to continue their career progression further and through specialist fields.