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Every CEO and leader knows that mental health is a growing challenge—and an opportunity—but how does one build resilience? In this regard, Marie-Hélène Pelletier’s The Resilience Plan  couldn’t be more timely. She offers us a very human, empathetic, and pragmatic approach to resilience, one grounded in psychology and refined through her extensive real-world work experience. We can all see ourselves in this book, and that’s a good thing.

“The Resilience Plan is highly valuable for a pair of reasons. First, it convincingly identifies resilience as a necessary trait for surviving and thriving in today’s frenetic world. Second, it not only shows the importance of having a strategic resilience plan, but also details the specific form the plan should take.

This gem of a book draws on best practices from both psychology and business. The Resilience Plan guides busy professionals and leaders step-by-step in the creation of a personal plan to reduce burnout and boost resilience. Unlike some books, it takes into account actual work/life demands and resources. Marie-Hélène Pelletier delivers on her promise to show you how to boost your resilience and mental health in just a few minutes a day. Use this book to enjoy a better year ahead!”

In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s not enough for leaders to simply do their job well. In The Resilience Plan, Marie-Hélène Pelletier expertly weaves science and story to help leaders build a custom resilience plan based on individual priorities and the context they live and work in.

“Marie-Hélène Pelletier provides a practical, inspiring, and engaging reflection on resilience. Pelletier anchors her perspectives in a deep understanding of psychological theory and research, and weaves engaging anecdotes from her personal and professional life that animate the core ideas. The Resilience Plan is a delight to read, a source of insight, and a valuable resource for addressing the challenges of work-life in the twenty-first century.”

The Resilience Plan is a must-read for both new and existing leaders. Marie-Hélène Pelletier’s easy-to-read book seamlessly integrates psychology and business to provide leaders with invaluable insights and strategies for instilling optimism, a can-do mindset, and the ability to differentiate with even more resilience.

Marie-Hélène Pelletier has written a transfixing playbook on how to truly optimize your work and health. Combined with real-life experiences, each page is packed with practical yet empowering strategies to help build your plan for resilience. From rethinking your supply and demand to how to lead with priority values, Pelletier gets you crafting a balanced path to success. A must-read for any leader!

An inspiring and practical book that can aid leaders, managers, and participants in any organization and help them navigate and cope with their ever-changing work environment. Having spent many years focused on management education and research, particularly at UBC and INSEAD, I have witnessed firsthand the personal challenges managers and professionals face in a complex world that demands peak performance. The need for individuals to proactively address their own resilience and contribute to the resilience of others has never been more pronounced.The Resilience Plan provides a comprehensive framework for building individual and organizational resilience and should be at the top of your reading list.

As someone who has written about the importance of adapting and bouncing back from adversity in my own book, Driven to Succeed: From Poverty to Podium, I highly recommend Marie-Hélène Pelletier’s new book, The Resilience Plan. She convincingly argues that resilience is not a given; it’s a skill that can be developed and strengthened with practice. Pelletier shows you the way.

A must-read! The Resilience Plan is an indispensable guide for those navigating high-demand workplaces, effectively dispelling misconceptions about burnout and resilience. Personal and practical, the book provides insightful advice on building resilience plans, fortified with compelling data, case studies, and anecdotes. Whether you’re teetering on the brink of burnout or seeking to reinforce your resilience, The Resilience Plan is a game-changing resource in the realm of mental health and work performance management.

We all need resilience now in this world of constant and disruptive change. The Resilience Plan shows us how to build resilience by providing inspiration, frameworks, and practical steps. Through a mix of psychology, strategic savvy, and illuminating personal experiences, Marie-Hélène Pelletier helps us work through adversity and find the way to growth.

Marie-Hélène Pelletier has crafted an excellent guidebook on building and nurturing resilience. The author weaves personal, anecdotal experiences with the latest research on creating a repertoire of resilience skills, including easy-to-follow, practical exercises. This is a very readable book.

A must-read book for all professionals and leaders interested in learning how to align work performance with psychological health and well-being. Marie-Hélène Pelletier clearly has a deep and broad understanding of her subject matter and an uncanny ability to inspire professionals and leaders to take action and get results.

“MH Pelletier’s book is phenomenal. A must-read for anyone in need of their own resilience plan.”

“MH Pelletier’s book, The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health is on target with what I have experienced in my professional tenure and I wish I would have had this book before experiencing burnout in my career.”

The Resilience Plan will motivate readers to take action. This is a valuable opportunity for professionals to find that elusive balance between demanding careers and life’s challenges.

Leaders need ongoing access to their best energy and focus. Ensuring burnout is kept at bay requires a clear, intentional strategy of nurturing resilience. Award-winning mental health expert Marie-Hélène Pelletier shows us how to protect our health while we build success in her must-read book.

The title of the first chapter is ‘You’re fabulous, but at risk’, a very poignant message for our community

“This book took me by surprise. What fascinated me the most was thinking of resilience as an immune system to the challenges we face as high achievers and business owners. The Resilience Plan is a must-read. Trust me, you may just see resilience in a very different light.”

“Tous les managers d’aujourd’hui savent qu’il est indispensable de développer une vision stratégique pour la conduite de leurs projets, et le développement de leur équipe. Mais on ne pense pas encore à appliquer cette même vision stratégique pour optimiser le niveau d’énergie des collaborateurs. Voilà ce que le Dr Marie-Hélène Pelletier nous propose dans ce livre résolument pratique. Destiné à ceux qui pilotent des équipes, mais aussi à tous ceux qui veulent apprendre à bien gérer leur santé mentale, ce livre concilie avec brio bien-être de chacun et objectifs de performance de l’ensemble. Un livre nécessaire !”

“You may not think you need to build resilience, but Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier helps us understand why it’s critical for all of us. This book is a wise, practical guide to putting in place a personalized action plan that will keep you operating at your best. Written with professionals in mind as a quick read with action steps that are infinitely doable.”

“Le livre ‘Le Plan de Résilience’ est une œuvre extraordinaire qui brille par sa sagesse et son inspiration. À travers des histoires captivantes et des conseils pratiques, ‘Le Plan de Résilience’ offre une boussole pour traverser les tempêtes de la vie. Un véritable trésor pour tous ceux qui aspirent à une vie plus forte et plus épanouissante. Bravo Marie-Hélène !”

“A comprehensive plan for avoiding burnout and enhancing well-being. Pelletier’s consistent tone of pragmatic optimism very effectively seeds the ground to make the goals outlined in her Daily Resilience Planner seem entirely within reach.”

“Dr. MH Pelletier is one of the most thoughtful and inspiring leaders of our generation. Resilience is not given, and when we are faced with adversity in our work or personal life – we need a strategy. The Resilience Plan gives us just that. A necessity for anyone!”

“The Resilience Plan is an investment worth making. Easy to digest and gets you going on taking action that will really make a difference. Much needed to navigate the balance of work and life, but most importantly, wellbeing. Grateful for all the value Marie-Helene freely shares in this book.”

“Resilience is hard to come by these days, especially if you don’t have the tools and strategies to equip yourself during challenging times. This is where Dr. Pelletier’s book, The Resilience Plan, comes in. The book expertly combines the psychological foundation, theory, strategies, and personal experiences to bring forth a compelling case for building a resilience plan. Get ready to sharpen your resilience building skills as you immerse yourself in Dr. Pelletier’s work.”

“No doubt you have heard how much your organization wants to hire, promote and develop people who have resilience.  And, I believe they are smart to pursue this quest. However, short of taking a deep dive into lots of literature, the path to building your own resilience isn’t clear … until now.  The Resilience Plan provides a road map you can follow.”

“The Resilience Plan is a must-read. You will learn new ways to build your self efficacy, increase your growth mindset, and help grow your inner and collective resilience.”

“I got to see a sneak preview of this book and it grabbed me immediately! It is chocked full of eye-opening, practical, useful information that everyone can benefit from – check it out”

“The Resilience Plan seamlessly merges Dr. Pelletier’s psychological insights with actionable steps for readers to take with them as they navigate their unique work and life demands.”

“Neglecting your mental health is a bit like deciding that you don’t need to eat this week. It’ll be okay…until it is not. The Resilience Plan offers a fantastically practical alternative.”

“The guide I did not know I needed! I am often left feeling burned out and overwhelmed. In this book, Dr Pelletier gives you the strategies and tools necessary to formulate your own plan to success.”

“The Resilience Plan”, le Dr Pelletier propose un guide exhaustif pour booster votre résilience en vous guidant dans la construction d’un plan personnalisé et concret.

“The author of this highly readable book found a unique way to convey to her readers that she deeply understands and empathizes with their long-standing exhausting struggle to keep going. Not only does Marie-Helene inspire the readers to gain access to their inner source of energy, but she also competently assists them with building a detailed resilience plan based on their individuality and specific situation. The Resilience Plan will, no doubt, make a difference in lives and work of leaders, educators, health professionals and many others.” 

“Resilience is every leader’s challenge in today’s interconnected and complex world. This book is a very well balanced mix of theory and experience, translated into actionable and simply explained exercises that allow you to not only create deliberate practice, but also to formalize and define a resilience plan that will allow you to grow and evolve whilst building your self mastery to anticipate stress and burnout. This book builds on psychology, business and coaching practices and is full of tangible alternatives for people to develop their own mastery of this subject and intentionally help teams to do so also. A must read for any leader at any level of the organization.”

“An amazing book for anyone looking to up their resilience game who wants to go beyond the clichés and buzzwords so ubiquitous in today’s self-help landscape.  I really appreciated Dr. Pelletier’s focus on actionable, evidence-based tactics that are drawn from several different fields including both psychology and business and which place a focus on developing a resilience plan within the realities of your current demands and resources.”

I read the book in preparation for a podcast on Manage This where we interviewed Dr. MH Pelletier. Our conversation with MH was important – she’s offering life-altering advice to our group of listeners (project manager) who are notoriously driven people… driven to the point of exhaustion and burnout. MH examines burnout closely in the book. She points out the signs that burnout is around the corner and approaching fast. I found these warning signals extremely helpful personally and for anyone who leads a team and needs to be looking out for each team member. Leaders must model this behavior and pursue resilience “publicly” so that others catch it and follow suit. If you know you need to build your own resilience plan, start by getting this book. Your team will thank you!”

“The Resilience Plan” is an insightful book that navigates the complexities of building mental and emotional fortitude in today’s fast-paced world. With a research-based approach, it offers tangible strategies to cope with adversity, emphasizing the importance of resilience and adaptive thinking. The book’s actionable takeaways make it a valuable resource for professionals and leaders seeking to enhance their resilience and thrive in the face of life’s challenges.” -Adam Markel, author of Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-Term Resilience

“The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health” is a practical and insightful guide that seamlessly merges psychology and business principles to empower individuals and organizations in enhancing stress resilience and mental well-being. The book adeptly explores the intricate relationship between mental health and work performance, shedding light on the complexities of stress and burnout. It provides a toolbox of actionable cognitive and behavioral tools, along with valuable insights into organizational resilience. What sets this book apart is its emphasis on practicality. It offers readily applicable strategies grounded in psychological research, making it accessible to a broad audience. It strikes a balance between academic depth and real-world relevance."

“Dr. Pelletier’s The Resilience Plan is essential for professionals and leaders, emerging and established. Grounded in research and enriched by real-world experiences, this book unfolds a roadmap to foster resilience in the intricate interplay of work and personal life. Whether you’re navigating workplace challenges or seeking to fortify your personal well-being, the practical exercises presented in this book serve as valuable tools for growth. Dr. Pelletier’s expertise shines through, providing a reliable compass for those navigating the turbulent waters of professional and personal demands.”

“I recognize the importance of a comprehensive resilience plan that encompasses one’s physical and mental health. The Resilience Plan is essential for professionals and leaders in any industry, and will be particularly beneficial to those in the healthcare industry. With the nature of our work, having a resilience plan in place is crucial.”

“Dr. Pelletier’s ‘The Resilience Plan’ is excellent! I love the engaging way she writes and the comprehensive scope of her approach to understanding burnout and creating a resilience strategy, along with the summary and actions the reader can take at the end of each chapter.  Definitely a “must read” for top leadership.”