Jonny Jacobs MBE

Jonny Jacobs is an award-winning Finance professional who feels passionately about the role of mental fitness in the workplace. As a kid growing up in Glasgow facing life's tough realities, Jonny uses the power of his lived mental health experience to champion the importance of mental fitness in the workplace and beyond.

Jonny Jacobs MBE is a senior business leader and passionate advocate for mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. An award-winning finance professional, Jonny combines personal experience with professional insight to champion the importance of mental fitness across business and society. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded an MBE for services to mental wellbeing in the workplace.

Currently Finance Director at Starbucks, Jonny has held a number of senior roles across the corporate world. Prior to Starbucks, he was Strategy & Transformation Director at pladis, the global snacking company behind household names including McVitie’s and Godiva. While there, he served as Executive Board sponsor for Mental Health and led the launch of the Employee Mental Health & Wellbeing strategy, which resulted in a national “Let’s Talk” partnership between McVitie’s and mental health charity Mind.

Raised in Glasgow and shaped by his own lived experience of mental health challenges, Jonny brings authenticity and empathy to every conversation. He speaks openly about the role that positive mental fitness can play in unlocking human potential and believes everyone has a part to play in breaking the stigma—one conversation at a time.

Beyond the workplace, Jonny supports several leading initiatives in mental health and social impact. He is a Trustee of the Mental Health Foundation, the UK’s leading charity for everyone’s mental health, and sits on the Advisory Board for Mad World, a major business summit on workplace mental health. He is also a Goalkeeper for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, helping to accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Jonny supports organisations through keynotes, panels and leadership sessions—sharing his own story and offering practical tools to help businesses shape compassionate, high-performing cultures that support both wellbeing and success.