Could your company benefit from the 'Simon Cowell effect'?

Therapy as part of your wellbeing offering - is it something you've ever considered? Perhaps not - but it should be, according to those in the HR, talent and people space, as well as psychologists. And it's all thanks to one particular music mogul, Mr Simon Cowell...

When Cowell - the king of the red button on Britain's Got Talent and hirer/firer on the X Factor - revealed that he had benefited from therapy, the world sat up and listened.

He shared his experience on the Men in Mind podcast, hosted by the mental health charity MIND. 

“When I see my friends, the first thing I talk about is how therapy has had this super positive effect on my life,” he says. “I wish I had done this 10 or 20 years ago...it’s like a weight has lifted off my shoulders," he revealed - and it's only now, at 63, that he has tried therapy.