Keynotes & Speaking

“Her speaking style is engaging, her energy exhilarating, and her content is relevant and research-based. I can see why MH is in high demand as a speaker, an advisor and an educator.”

As a keynote speaker, Dr. Pelletier combines cutting-edge psychological research, clinical expertise, and business management insights to deliver presentations with fresh perspectives and practical takeaways.

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Keynotes and Workshops

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As a keynote speaker and panel moderator, Dr. Pelletier combines cutting-edge psychological research, clinical expertise, and business management insights to deliver presentations with fresh perspectives and practical takeaways.

Known for her dynamic style and engaging approach, MH inspires audiences to think critically and act decisively. Her expertise, paired with an approachable and relatable demeanor, ensures she connects with audiences while confidently addressing their questions.

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Keynote Topics

The Resilience Plan: Strategic Resilience for Performance in Times of Relentless Change

In this keynote, which complements her award-winning book The Resilience Plan, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier combines her expertise in leadership psychology, workplace mental health, and business to reframe resilience as a strategic capability rather than a personal trait. This session goes beyond recovery to focus on how leaders and professionals sustain performance, health, and judgment under continuous pressure and change.

Dr. Pelletier debunks common myths that limit effectiveness during demanding periods and introduces her evidence-based Resilience DNA™ model — a practical, systems-based way to understand how demands, values, and context interact to shape performance and mental health over time. This approach provides leaders and teams with a clear, actionable roadmap to protect performance while adapting to complexity and uncertainty.

Key takeaways include:

Approaching resilience as an intentional leadership and performance strategy, not a reactive response
Designing a personalized resilience plan aligned with professional demands and values
Leveraging organizational, team, and personal context to sustain effectiveness during change

Strategic Resilience in High-Stakes Environments: Harnessing the Opportunity of the Moment

In an era of relentless transformation, leaders, professionals, and workplace cultures are impacted in complex and compounding ways. Some pressures reflect accelerated pre-existing trends; others are entirely new. What is clear is that sustained performance now requires a more deliberate and strategic approach to resilience.

In this presentation, Dr. Pelletier brings together her work as an executive coach and practicing work psychologist with current research to help organizations understand how high-stakes demands affect individuals, teams, and systems. She highlights how leaders can manage major initiatives and high-profile responsibilities while maintaining clarity, energy, and decision quality — not by doing more, but by working differently.

Participants will:

Understand how mindset, resilience, and mental health interact under sustained pressure
Distinguish drivers of mental agility and performance from contributors to fatigue and burnout
Align strategic priorities with resilience practices that protect execution and outcomes

Human Performance and Resilience in the Age of AI

As AI and emerging technologies rapidly reshape how work is done, leaders and professionals are navigating new cognitive, emotional, and ethical pressures. In this session, Dr. Pelletier explores the human side of technological transformation, clarifying how AI-driven change affects performance, mental health, and adaptability at work.

Drawing on research and real-world organizational experience, Dr. Pelletier helps participants make sense of interdisciplinary change and translate uncertainty into informed action. Rather than positioning AI as a threat or a cure-all, she offers a measured, psychologically informed approach that helps individuals and teams remain effective, grounded, and resilient as work continues to evolve.

Participants will:

Understand how AI is transforming work across roles, teams, and systems
Identify psychological risks and opportunities associated with AI-driven change
Reconfigure resilience and agility strategies to support sustainable performance

Psychological Safety as a Strategic Enabler of Team Performance

High-performing teams are not defined by the absence of challenge, pressure, or disagreement — they are defined by their ability to speak candidly, learn quickly, and adapt effectively in complex environments. Psychological safety is a critical condition that enables these outcomes, yet it is often misunderstood or oversimplified.

In this keynote, workplace psychologist and leadership advisor Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier draws on current research and her experience working with senior leaders and teams to clarify what psychological safety actually is — and what it is not. She positions psychological safety not as a “soft” concept, but as a strategic enabler of decision quality, execution, and resilience, particularly in periods of change and uncertainty.

Participants will:

Understand psychological safety as a performance and risk-management capability
Identify leadership behaviours and team conditions that support learning, accountability, and adaptability
Strengthen team resilience by embedding psychological safety into everyday work

4 Reasons Dr. Marie-Hélène Should Be Your Next Speaker

1.
Boost Performance

Marie-Hélène shares what psychologists know but other professionals and business people may not. She has a robust understanding of the intersection between business success and strong workplace mental health practices, having led workplace mental health strategy in senior leadership roles at several companies, including several Fortune 500 companies.

2.
Foster Resilience

Through her speaking engagements and workshops, Marie-Hélène provides business leaders with concrete steps to prevent fatigue and burnout – and gain energy, even in tough times. She can help your leaders and team members shift perspectives and regain and retain their passion.

3.
Manage Change

Marie-Hélène provides business leaders and their team members the psychological tools to adapt to and embrace transformational change. She equips them to respond quickly, make good decisions, and maintain stamina for ongoing productivity.

4.
Engage with Style

Marie-Hélène is a dynamic speaker and workshop facilitator with an engaging style, exhilarating energy, and a warm sense of humour. With this relatable approach, she brings the latest research and proven best practices to her talks, inspiring participants to take action and get results.

Dr. MH, I truly wish we had more time to work together! Even in the short time we had, I learned so much from you. Thank you for sharing your insights and wisdom with us—it made a real impact on our organization and community.

Marie-Hélène weaves together a macro look at the science of resiliency with micro actions all of us can incorporate into our daily lives. She was a pleasure to work with through every step of the event: prep calls, onsite and attendee engagement post keynote.

If you're seeking a truly impactful keynote speaker with a unique sense of humor, I highly recommend Marie-Hélène Pelletier, PhD, MBA (often affectionately called "MH"). Her presentation at BMO was deeply resonant, as she connected authentically with our experiences. MH's insights emphasized the vital importance of prioritizing personal well-being while fostering resilience within our teams. Her approach inspires actionable strategies to help us all bring forward the best versions of ourselves. I left her session feeling motivated to implement these lessons, and I believe others would greatly benefit from her expertise as well.

Dr. Marie-Hélène is one of those rare experts who truly grasps what it takes for us (both individually and in organizations) to achieve goals that we may only dream of. She inspires participants to take action that leads to results and does this with passion, knowledge, experience and joy.

Dr. Pelletier, I wanted to personally thank you for your well-received keynote address on mental health resilience. The feedback I’ve received, with which I fully agree, has been that employees felt the content of your presentation was relevant and informative, while your delivery was engaging, inspiring and energetic.

Her speaking style is engaging, her energy exhilarating, and her content is relevant and research-based. I can see why MH is in high demand as a speaker, an advisor and an educator.

How

Marie-Hélène Will Work With You

Marie-Hélène will have a brief conversation with you to discuss your goals and determine how best to meet them. Given her experience as a senior leader, she’s comfortable customizing topics that will lead to results for your group.

You can trust Marie-Hélène to craft a speech that meets your goals, resonates with your audience and requires as little of your time as possible.

This badge earner is an Alumni of Heroic Public Speaking, a public speaking training institute in Lambertville, NJ. In completing HPS GRAD, they have received the most substantial and complete public speaking training in the world, and have attained the status of a professionally trained public speaker.

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