DR ALEX GEORGE – MEDICAL WORK
Signing up to Love Island in 2018, Dr Alex George was hoping to find love; but instead, he won the heart of the nation. His down-to-earth and personable nature made him a fan favourite and gave him the platform he needed to improve people’s lives.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, he documented his frontline duties in his local hospital, taking to social media to highlight the negative effects of lockdown on young people struggling with their mental health. One of Alex’s biggest goals is to change the perception around mental health, comparing it to physical health. He believes that, just as physical health is taken seriously and steps are made to improve it, mental health is often thought about in a negative manner.
DR ALEX GEORGE – TV WORK
His popularity has seen him appear on a number of top-rated TV programmes including Lorraine (2018-2021), Celebrity Masterchef (2019), This Morning (2019), Loose Women (2018), The One Show (2020-2021) and Sky News (2021); he has also worked as the Health Editor for Good Morning Britain (2018-2020).
In 2021, he produced his first documentary for BBC One and Children in Need, Dr Alex: Our Young Mental Health Crisis. In the programme, he followed the journeys of a number of young British people who are living with mental health problems. He explored the difficulties they were having and looked into how local projects – some funded by Children in Need – are making a difference.
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DR ALEX GEORGE – HEALTH AMBASSADOR
Sadly, in 2020, Alex’s brother Llŷr took his own life. This tragic event saw him become passionate about mental health, especially among children and adolescents. Since then, he has worked alongside a number of charities such as Mind, YoungMinds and the Anna Freud Centre to ensure mental health is included in the national curriculum alongside Maths, English and Science.
In 2021, he was appointed the Government’s Youth Mental Health Ambassador, as well as a member of the Mental Health in Education Action Group. They were particularly focussed on how children returned to the classrooms after the COVID-19 lockdowns.
In November 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of law from the University of Law in recognition of his work as Youth Mental Health Ambassador. The following year, he was awarded another honorary degree, this time from the University of Exeter for his work in psychological support for young people.
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DR ALEX GEORGE – WRITING & PODCAST
In 2021, he released his first book, Live Well Every Day. It became the Sunday Times number 1 bestseller and is full of advice to keep your body and your mind healthy. In 2022, he released A Better Day: Your Positive Mental Health Handbook, which provides a practical toolkit for helping guide young readers in how they care for their mental health. In 2024, he released A Better Day Journal, a confidence-building journal that aims to boost self-esteem, reduce anxiety, and develop resilience.
His latest book, published in January 2025, is called The Mind Manual: Your Complete Mental Fitness Toolkit. The journal helps readers to establish their baseline mental health, and to offer advice and tools to help maintain that as much as possible.
He also runs a podcast, The Waiting Room, in which he celebrates heroes in healthcare by telling their personal stories. Topics touched upon have included the impact lockdown had on pollution levels, pregnancy and childbirth, intensive care, emergency medicine, knife crime, war trauma, cosmetic dentistry and fitness, amongst many others.
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DR ALEX GEORGE – SOCIAL MEDIA
He has a rapidly growing social media presence, with a following of over 828,000 on TikTok, 108,000 on YouTube and a whopping 1.9 million on Instagram, in which he shares easy-to-digest information on physical and mental wellbeing, with the aim of reaching millennials and those uncomfortable with asking for help.
DR ALEX GEORGE – SPEAKING TOPICS
- Mental Health
- Mental Resilience
- Physical Wellbeing
- Suicide
- Working in A&E
- Love Island
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DR ALEX GEORGE – KEYNOTE TOPICS
Solving the Billion-Pound Problem
Lack of productivity due to poor mental health cost the economy £57.4 billion in 2022. As staggering as this might be, it’s the human cost that matters most. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be this way. Alex uses his expertise in mental fitness to provide an approach that executives and manages can use to build companies that are conducive with good mental health.
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Mental Fitness# For All
The truth is, most of us are missing out on our true potential in life, simply because we were never given the knowledge we desperately deserve in our younger years. Thinking of your brain as your hardware and your mental health as the software, this talk provides tools to upgrade both, using science-backed methods that will ultimately change your life.
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The Productivity Paradox: Science Has the Answer
Everyone wants to be more productive and every employer wants more productive employees, but what does productivity actually mean, and how can we achieve it? Alex believes productivity is about being able to do more of what you care about and feeling truly fulfilled in your life, both at home and at work. Combining science with mindset hacks, this talk will change the way you approach your to-do-list forever.
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Why Mental Health Matters
If you Google ‘physical health’, you will see an athlete running through the park; if you Google ‘mental health’, you’ll find someone in despair. Everyone has physical and mental health, yet we only focus on the former. Learning about mental health is invaluable, from understanding the gut-brain connection to adopting daily habits that can transform your life. This talk reframes your view of mental health, equipping you with the essential tools for your wellbeing.
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DR ALEX GEORGE – CORPORATE WORK
Dr Alex Georges’s growing popularity has seen him partner with brands including Lifebuoy, SodaStream, Dyson, KIND and Headspace, creating content and appearing in media campaigns.
He is a popular choice to appear at events for intimate talks or keynote speeches, fireside chats and interactive Q&As, covering everything from mental health to sexual health, social media to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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