Honorary graduates 2024

Tom Chapman (LLD)

Wednesday 17 July 2024 9:00am

The multi award winning Tom Chapman is an author, barber, educator, ambassador, TEDx speaker, and founder of The Lions Barber Collective, an international network of barbers who have come together to help raise awareness for the prevention of suicide. He is an author four times over including a children's book called The Mighty Lions and in 2022 published his lifesaving lessons from BarberTalk training titled How to Listen so Men Will Talk.

After opening his own hair salon in 2011, Tom quickly realised that from inside the safe environment of his barbershop there was an opportunity to not only look after what's on his customers heads but also, what's inside their heads too. In 2015, he founded The Lions Barber Collective, with a vision of a world free from suicide, to educate and raise awareness about mental health and suicide prevention. Tom created a life-saving education programme, that trains hair and beauty professionals, and now anybody (in BarberTalk, Hair&BeautyTalk and HereToTalk training) giving participants the skills to recognise, ask, listen and help those around them with their mental health and suicide prevention.