Ailon Freedman
Wellbeing Expert & CEO of The Lotus Exchange
Ailon Freedman is the Founder and Director of The Lotus Exchange - the UK’s most diverse corporate wellbeing service. Its mission is to improve the health, wellbeing and happiness of individuals in their workplace through the delivery of “Corporate Chill” and “Corporate Funk” activities. These include On-site massages, Office yoga classes, Corporate Wellbeing days, African Drum sessions and even Stand-up Comedy classes.
The Lotus Exchange assists many of the UK’s top 100 companies to create an enlightened, carrot-rather-than-stick approach to employee management. The ethos is simple – namely that happy, creative, de-stressed individuals will be more productive when they are at work and more motivated to turn up to work in the first place.
Ailon has a diverse working background. He was a yoga and meditation instructor for over fifteen years with clients including England footballers and cricketers and he was also a yoga model and contributor to The Times. Ailon is also a contemporary artist, percussionist and stand-up comedian (www.ailonfree.co.uk) and will be performing at the Edinburgh Festival this summer. Brought up to be an accountant by his father, Ailon feels that if he has learnt to be creative then anyone can!
Ailon regularly speaks about stress-management and wellbeing at corporate conferences and on the radio. His training in stress -and the management of it- came while spending 5 years working in a family pharmaceutical export business in the 1990’s. The stress-inducing combination of interpersonal family dynamics, Nigerian export regulations and Pharmaceutical labelling laws highlighted the immense need to Ailon for some sort of corporate wellbeing service. Unable to find it in the marketplace, Ailon promptly set-up The Lotus Exchange to deliver it.
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