Executive Team
Please find below all members of the Living Well Executive Team.
Ben Howells
Chief Executive Officer
Ben Howells went to University of Hull, where he made his degree in Politics.
Post University Ben worked for 2 years for Mitchells and Butlers on their management graduate scheme, and during this programme spent time managing pubs across Birmingham
Ben then joined the charity Aquarius, where he worked for 10 years running services that helped people with Drug, Alcohol or Gambling problems.
He started working at Living Well in 2018 as Managing Director and moved on a year after to become CEO.
Outside of work Ben likes football, cricket and running.
Patrick Kwesiga
Clinical Director
Patrick Kwesiga is the Clinical Director for Living Well Consortium.
He is a psychotherapist registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He holds relevant qualifications, including a masters in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, a BA (Social Sciences), a Postgraduate in IAPT Leadership and Management of health, and corporate leadership accreditation. He is also a qualified IAPT supervisor and an accredited Well-being Facilitator.
Patrick has a depth of experience in community development, is a children mentor, community advocate, and health and well-being promoter.
He also specialises in writing and literary works, theatre director, acting and African drumming. He is author of Glad Made Mad a socio-cultural drama, and co-author of The Dancing Tree children’s stories.
Lucy Squire
Operations Director
Lucy started her nurse training in 2000, whilst working in secondary care, by this point her interest in mental health grew and so her focus became developing her career further within rehabilitation and service development from internal to external support that was needed by those individuals. Lucy has had opportunities working in various settings from residential to community based. She moved on to manage a talking therapies service, has completed her degree in Business Management and has done further training in an operational remit, such as health and safety, leadership management and more recently HR. on reflection Lucy feels she has always belonged to mental health and is looking at the operations within services.
When Lucy Isn't working, she enjoys DIY, including painting and upcycling Furniture, only problem is she is always changing her mind. Lucy will attempt any DIY project.
