Michelle Morgan
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Agent
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Melissa Tombere
MTombere@UnitedAgents.co.ukBiography
Michelle Morgan is a leading voice on mental health. She is the Founder of Pjoys, PJs with purpose and Co-Founder of the purpose-led business Livity, a 20-year-old award winning creative agency. She is winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise, the Lloyds National Business Awards and the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards. She was featured in the Evening Standard Progress Makers as one of London’s top ten Changemakers and in 2018 she was invited to join the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House, Windsor Castle. She is part of the Marketing4Change founding group, through the Marketing Society which is looking to remove mental health stigma and discrimination in the marketing and creative sector, part of 100stories.co.uk and also the Don’t Lose It campaign, which is seeking to create a kite mark for the investment and founder community. In September 2019 she was announced as an Ambassador for Mental Health First Aid England and in November 2019 she appeared in the Meaningful Business 100 amongst a global set of entrepreneurs and leaders leading the charge for sustainable and meaningful businesses.
Michelle has contributed to THE BOOK OF HOPE by Jonny Benjamin (Macmillan, Spring 2021) and released her first book, OWN YOUR OWN AWKWARD, with Trigger Publishing in 2021.
Publications
Non-fiction
A hugely practical and inspiring self-help guide, Own Your Awkward will help you handle those awkward conversations around mental health. Michelle Morgan blends research and personal experience to help you tackle those topics, whether in the workplace or with family and friends.
Let’s be honest – it can be really awkward talking about our mental health! Whether you’re offering someone support or looking for ways to help yourself, these conversations can feel difficult, embarrassing and complex.
In Own Your Awkward Michelle Morgan, Mental Health First Aid Ambassador, trainer and speaker explores why we feel awkward and shows us how to talk more openly about our mental health – and how we really can embrace our awkward.
Through her own story of burnout, clinical depression and anxiety, combined with the lived experience of others, Michelle explains how you can transform those tricky moments into your power using four key cornerstones – confidence, capability, communication and compassion, to help reframe your story. You’ll learn how to start those all-important conversations, with clear steps and practical advice.
It’s time to get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable, love your awkward and have better and braver conversations about mental health.
