With guests, Luke Tonge and Daniel Alcorn from Birmingham Design Festival and psychologist, Dannielle Haig.
Asking For A Friend teams an industry leader with a psychologist to give advice on career, mental health and everything in between. It’s there for the questions you don’t yet have the courage to ask of your boss or at your workplace for fear of how you may be judged or treated. Of course, we hope you can ask those questions, but just in case, you can ask them anonymously for a friend instead.
Luke Tonge is a graphic designer, lecturer, and events wrangler in Birmingham. He specialises in identity & editorial work for brands, agencies and charities. As an introvert he finds it ironic to now spend most of his time on some sort of stage. He's a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University and co-director of Birmingham Design, the organisation responsible for the Birmingham Design Festival & Glug Birmingham. Dan is a designer, front-end developer and event organiser from Birmingham. By day he is Brand & Communication Design Lead at digital agency Substrakt – focusing on delivering digital products for arts & cultural institutions. In his spare time Dan is the co-founder and co-director of Birmingham Design, a community for designers working in and around the West Midlands and organisers of the annual Birmingham Design Festival.
Qualified in Business Psychology, Counselling and Business Coaching, Dannielle is highly accomplished in understanding and analysing human behaviour. Her areas of expertise and academic research lie in the analysis of Leadership Personalities, Mental Resilience and Wellbeing which is the topic of her PhD thesis and has also seen her developing a commercial psychometric test with a world leading Business Psychologist. Dannielle is a highly regarded training and workshop facilitator who works with the world’s largest organisations and brands. She is also a retained Coach for many organisations where she develops Leaders as well as promotes Wellbeing for all. Danni has a broad depth of knowledge around Leadership Psychology and Wellbeing in the workplace and is truly passionate about educating others to reach their potential.
