Alexander Irchin
 
 

Why Mental Health Matters! It is not a “soft factor” – it’s a productivity driver!

 




In times of constant transformation, digitalization overflow, and performance pressure, our sustainable success depends on one important key factor: mental resilience of people.





When employees are under continuous stress, without solution development or recovery competences, colleagues suffer, motivation will drop, amount of mistakes will increase, and engagement fades away.




This is not only a human challenge, but also a measurable business risk and it is part of our supply chain!

Companies that actively foster mental health will strengthen performance, innovation, and loyalty – turning resilience into a true competitive advantage in our VUCA world.










With my long time in leadership roles, I took the chance to be trained as a Mental Health Business Expert. Today I combine 25 years of leadership experience in logistics, supply chain, and production planning with deep expertise in stress management and burnout prevention and got my own human centric leadership focus.


My mission: using a human centric leadership approach to increase mental health awareness with my clear ambition to translate my inside and knowledge to help strengthen both our people and our processes; creating workplaces that are productive, resilient, and human-centered.



Through evidence-based frameworks (e.g. Kaluza’s stress model, AVEM diagnostics, and burnout phase analysis), I have gained more insides in the question about how stress develops, which shifted my focus since 2025 more and more to help my teams and colleguages to get more awarness.








 

  




Conclusion:

Mental health is not a feel-good topic – it is a factor of productivity and future viability.


Especially but not only in my sectors of expertise like supply chain fulfilment management, sales and operation planning, logistics and warehouse management, inventory optimization and supply chain network design, procurements and production planning is mental health and strong teams a success factor.


I'm convinced that those who strengthen the mental health of employees not only enhance the performance of their teams but also increase company’s competitiveness.


My clear mission: 


Mental Health Matters!