Episode 281 - How Kara Connect Helps Employers Improve Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing - with Tobba Vigfusdottir

2025-05-06

It's one thing for employers to say that they want to help improve employee mental health, but another thing entirely to actually make it happen. Today, I am joined by Tobba Vigfusdottir, CEO and Founder of Kara Connect, a customised mental health and wellbeing platform for employees. Tobba has an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle and a B.Ed. from the University of Iceland; both focused on cognitive psychology. Tobba has, throughout her career, focused on the problem of ...

It's one thing for employers to say that they want to help improve employee mental health, but another thing entirely to actually make it happen.

Today, I am joined by Tobba Vigfusdottir, CEO and Founder of Kara Connect, a customised mental health and wellbeing platform for employees.

Tobba has an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle and a B.Ed. from the University of Iceland; both focused on cognitive psychology.

Tobba has, throughout her career, focused on the problem of access to help and support. Her experience as a local politician brought forward the systemic problems people face in getting the proper support to get better.

Tobba established an online speech therapy company before establishing Kara Connect. She sits on the National Theatre board and the Science and Technology board appointed by the Minister of Innovation. Before entrepreneurship, Tobba was an elected city councillor in Reykjavík for 12 years, a political Advisor to the Minister of Education and a project manager for a women’s entrepreneurial program.

In a wide-ranging interview, Tobba and I discussed these topics:

✅ The role leadership plays in creating a mentally healthy workplace culture.

✅ What Kara Connect does and how it helps organisations improve workplace wellbeing.

✅ The main or most common mental health and wellbeing challenges in workplaces today.

✅ Ineffective ways companies try to address these challenges.

✅ Approaches that actually work when it comes to supporting mental health and creating healthier workplaces.

✅ What has worked well in terms of business growth and getting the word out about Kara Connect.

✅ And much more.

You can find the podcast discussion on the Get More HR Clients website and on the Podcast: A Better HR Business LinkedIn page.

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Website: www.karaconnect.com.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobba-vigfusdottir-17022411/

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www.GetMoreHRClients.com/Podcast

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