MCG Substance Use Awareness Series
Building Recovery-Informed Workplaces Across the Corporate World.
The national conversation is changing.
“Addiction is not a choice or a personal failing but a complex mental health condition that should be met with empathy and support.”
-The Princess of Wales, message marking Addiction Awareness Week 2025 (shared via The Forward Trust)
70% of people with a substance use disorder are in work.
OECD, Health at Work 2023
At MCG Consulting, we specialise in substance use awareness, recovery-informed inclusion, and driving workplace culture change. Our flagship Substance Use Awareness Series empowers organisations to create safer, more inclusive environments through powerful storytelling and sector-specific insights.
Substance use remains one of the most urgent and often overlooked issues in the workplace. Our series opens honest conversations, reduces stigma, and helps employers support their teams in practical, lasting ways.
Pricing Guide for Our Talks
Each session is designed to be practical, credible, and well supported.
A typical engagement includes:
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A speaker with lived experience of substance use, addiction, recovery, and the workplace
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Insightful and honest discussion on substance use, stigma, and recovery in the workplace
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Facilitated Q&A and interactive reflection
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Follow-up resources and practical tools
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Optional support with internal communications and session framing
Sessions can be delivered online, in person, or in hybrid format. We work with each client to identify the right tone, title, and theme for their people, culture, and objectives. Sessions are relevant across all levels of an organisation and can be tailored for offices, business functions, or time zones.
Pricing (2026)
Tailored awareness session
60 minutes including Q&A: typically £5,000 to £7,500 + VAT
Our core offer for firms and organisations that want to open up a thoughtful, practical and professionally relevant conversation around substance use, coping behaviours, stigma, recovery and workplace culture. Each session is tailored to the organisation and designed to help colleagues better understand the issue, recognise its relevance in high-pressure working environments, and feel more confident about how support can begin. This format is particularly well suited to firm-wide wellbeing calendars, awareness weeks, leadership events, and wider people and culture programmes.
Interactive workshop
90 to 120 minutes: typically £7,500 to £12,500 + VAT
A more in-depth and practical format designed for discussion, reflection and application. Often used for managers, HR teams, wellbeing leads, DEI groups, leadership audiences, or mixed internal groups where practical engagement matters. Workshops can explore themes such as safe conversations, signs of concern, boundaries, signposting, psychological safety, and how to respond constructively without becoming clinicians.
Three-part Substance Use Awareness Series
Quoted according to scope, format, tailoring, and speaker requirements. A more strategic option for organisations that want to build momentum over time, deepen understanding, and support longer-term culture change. Sessions can be aligned to internal priorities, awareness weeks, or key points in the organisational calendar.
Enterprise and strategic delivery
For larger firms, financial institutions, international organisations, or clients requiring more complex tailoring, leadership alignment, wider stakeholder engagement, or enhanced internal communications support, we are happy to provide a clear fixed proposal. Every engagement includes pre-session briefing, tailored framing, expert facilitation, and follow-up resources.
We are also happy to discuss more focused entry-point formats for organisations with smaller budgets or narrower objectives.
Logistics
VAT is added to all fees. Travel and accommodation are charged for in-person delivery outside London. Once a date is confirmed and held in our diary, we issue an invoice with 30-day payment terms from the date of booking. At that stage, we also begin planning the framing, materials, and communications needed for a smooth and high-quality delivery.
Tell us your audience, preferred format and timeline, and we will come back with a clear, fixed fee.
Three-Part Substance Use Talk Series
For maximum impact, we recommend a three-part series spaced across the year. Each session builds on the last, helping your teams gain deeper awareness, resilience and confidence to engage with this vital topic.
We can tailor the format and delivery for your offices, hybrid needs or global footprint. Below are suggested timings and themes:
Option 1 – Calendar-based delivery
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September (Recovery Month) – Opening the Conversation on Substance Use and Recovery
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October – Resilience, Recovery and High-Performance Environments
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December – Belonging, Boundaries and Behaviour (aligned with year-end parties and social events)
Option 2 – Thematic flexibility
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Breaking the Silence: Opening Up the Conversation on Substance Use
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Recovery and Resilience: How People Heal and Why It Matters at Work
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Beyond Recovery: How Colleagues Become Allies
Series package (3 sessions): Available on request
If you book a series of three talks, we offer a 10% discount on the total fee. This discount is applied to the standard per-talk price listed in the ‘Single Talk Pricing’ table.
We are happy to walk you through a deck or suggest titles based on your internal strategy or wellbeing calendar.
Once a date is confirmed and held in our diary, we’ll issue an invoice along with our standard terms of business. These include 30-day payment terms from the date of booking, which helps us manage delivery and planning smoothly. As a small business, that support is always appreciated.
Let us help you bring this essential conversation to your team.