Speaking & CE

“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.”

Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier (known as “MH”) is an award-winning psychologist and workplace mental health expert. She’s a dynamic speaker who bridges the gap between psychological research and practical workplace strategies. Her presentations are eligible for Continuing Education (CE) credits and are tailored to inspire action and drive results.

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Even more powerful than a standing ovation?
Getting invited back.

MH delivers

50+ speeches a year

often to companies who invite her back multiple times

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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Trusted companies trust Marie-Hélène

Resilience in the Age of AI: Thriving Amidst Workplace Transformation

Dr. Pelletier unpacks the intersection of AI and workplace mental health, providing clear strategies to address the psychological challenges posed by AI advancements.

Turn AI-related stress into growth opportunities.
Create a resilience framework for adapting to AI.

In this presentation, Dr. Pelletier clarifies the potential psychological impacts of the changes we are currently experiencing and simplifies ways to mitigate the less desirable impacts and optimize the positive ones for you and your teams. With practical advice that is both research-based and experience-informed, she’ll help find your footing to take your next steps with agility.

Understand how work life might be transformed in interdisciplinary ways by AI
Learn the impacts AI may have on psychological health and approaches to turn them to
your and your team’s advantage
Reconfigure your plan for psychological resilience and agility as it relates to AI

Resilience And High-Stakes:
Harnessing The Opportunity Of The Moment

In an era of transformational change, professionals and workplace culture are impacted in multiple ways. Some impacts are an acceleration of pre-existing trends, and some are new. But one thing is clear – many of these changes are far-reaching.

In this presentation, Dr. Pelletier brings together her experience as executive coach and practicing work psychologist with current research to challenge your assumptions and help your organization understand these changes at the individual, team and organizational levels.

More importantly, she highlights how organizations and individuals can manage the pressures of major projects and high-profile assignments. By approaching this moment in time with curiosity, agility and renewed energy and purpose, we can not only adapt to change, we can emerge more resilient.

Understand the links between your mindset, resilience and mental health.
Distinguish what factors contribute to mental agility and health, as well as to fatigue and burnout.
Align your strategic plan for the power of resilience based on strategies that work.

From Overload to Overjoyed: Strategies for Smarter Leadership and Resilient Teams

Let’s be real: leading a team can feel like you’re juggling flaming swords—while riding a unicycle—on a tightrope. But here’s the good news: you don’t have to set yourself on fire to manage workload, foster growth, and shape a positive workplace culture. Leadership can be both effective and enjoyable.

This is designed for leaders who want to level up their game and their teams. You’ll walk away with fresh strategies to help your team tackle workload challenges without burning out, create growth opportunities that actually stick, and build an organizational culture that people don’t just tolerate—but love being part of. It’s all about leading by example and getting the best out of your people without losing your mind in the process.

What you’ll get:

Workload strategy: Practical tips to distribute the load fairly and prevent burnout.
Growth mindset actions: How to support your team’s development in ways that align with your organization’s big goals—and keep them excited about it.
Culture crafting: Proven ways to foster a work environment where inclusivity, collaboration, and well-being are more than just buzzwords—they’re a way of life.

If you’re ready to lead your team to new heights (without breaking a sweat), this session is for you!

From Idea to Impact: Psychological Safety and Resilience in Action

Diverse teams have the potential to bring a breadth of perspectives and innovative ideas but this potential will not be met without consideration to a key moderating factor. While every team is different, the highest functioning teams consistently leverage psychological safety.

In this keynote, workplace mental health expert, psychologist and experienced leader Dr. Pelletier brings together her weekly work as a practicing work psychologist with current research in psychological safety in the workplace to clarify what we know makes a difference in teams and organizations. She highlights how psychological safety connects with mental health strategy and overall business strategy, and the impacts of psychological safety on adaptation to change, action-orientation and other benefits that may surprise you.

Understand what psychological safety is
Distinguish the benefits
Learn the actions you can implement now

Resilience in a high-stakes, high-performance culture

Given your high-pressure role in a culture of always adding more, it is not surprising that fatigue and burnout represent prevalent occupational and mental health challenges. Informed by her psychology, business, and workplace mental health practice, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier shares both the contextual aspects and the organizational, team and individual opportunities you need to see, so you can set meaningful goals that align with your values and protect performance and health.

Learning objectives:

Distinguish what factors belong to the context and to you, and how these interact.
Understand how your professional beliefs are impacting the risk for burnout.
Reconstruct your plan for prevention and maintenance of health.

Building Resilience: Neurodiversity and Mental Health in the Workplace

Your team and your organisation already include a probably large but hidden neurodiverse population. This likely leads to even more creativity, innovation, productivity and resilience. A more conscious effort to create and support such diversity would benefit everyone – individuals, teams and the organisation.

If you increase your literacy and framework, then you create the potential for positive outcomes. Organizational climates that connect neurodiversity with inclusion and ethical climates do even better. In this talk, Dr Marie-Helene covers what neurodiversity is, how it differs from and intersects with mental health at work and its significance. She guides a research-based reflection on where we are currently at and how to move forward to support even better psychological health and safety for a neurodiverse population.

Define neurodiversity and its connection with mental health
Understand how beliefs and literacy impact support of neurodiversity at work
Identify actions to start taking now to support neurodiversity

The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health

In this keynote, which complements her award-winning book “The Resilience Plan” Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier combines her vast expertise in leadership psychology, workplace mental health, and business to spotlight the art of crafting resilience strategically. This session isn’t just about recovering; it’s about reinventing oneself with style, insight, and a plan.

Dr. Pelletier debunks common myths that often hinder personal and professional growth. She introduces an innovative visual model that vividly illustrates the concept of strategic resilience, highlighting the interplay between various life spheres. This model isn’t just informative — it’s a game-changer, providing a clear roadmap to resilience.

Key takeaways include:

Embracing Proactive Resilience: Dive deep into what it means to approach resilience as an ongoing, strategic endeavor rather than a reactive response.
Crafting Your Resilience Blueprint: Discover the essential elements for developing a custom resilience plan that resonates with your unique circumstances.
Harnessing Your Context: Uncover the critical role context plays in your resilience journey and learn how to navigate the interconnectedness of your personal and professional worlds to maximize your resilience.

Fully Customized Keynote

Are you looking for a speaker to deliver a unique keynote, customized to what your organization has been going through and what is on your horizon?

MH will create and give an engaging and impactful discussion and offer practical strategies and techniques that participants can add to their approach. She works with and understands highly informed professionals and leaders and is able to take the conversation beyond high-level and into a substantively developed approach.

Workplace Mental Health Disability Prevention and Management Online Masterclass

As employers and stakeholders, your key contributors to your workplace mental health strategy. When it comes to mental health disability prevention and management, you need to know recent impactful research and innovative best practices to bring the best results.

In her Masterclass, Dr. Pelletier covers the essentials of the latest research on prevention, improving outcomes and supporting individuals while absent. You’ll also learn the return-to-work factors you can influence and how to inspire teams to do better in the future.

We’ll also cover:

How managers, leaders and co-workers can be effective in preventing and supporting employee mental health issues
The biggest myths associated with mental health disability absence
The actions specific employees can take to manage an effective return to work
Four critical areas to focus on moving forward

This masterclass recording comes in four (4) 30-minute modules where participants can integrate their learnings. Q&A sessions can be booked either as individual coaching or as group sessions.

1.Boost Performance

MH shares insights that bridge the gap between psychology and business success.

2.Foster Resilience

Learn concrete steps to prevent burnout and maintain energy.

3.Manage Change

Gain psychological tools to adapt, decide, and thrive amid transformation.

4.Engage with Style

MH’s presentations are infused with energy, humour, and substance.

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Thanks so much Marie Hélène, your presentation was a huge hit with our team. The feedback has been incredibly positive and useful. Looking forward to working with you again.

—Robert Frelich, Director General

Employment and Social Development Canada

Marie-Hélène is one of the rare people with the education, knowledge and past experiences that can integrate workplace health in a way that resonates with senior leaders and practitioners.

—Deputy Director

Business & Finance

“We had Dr. Pelletier present at one of our recent events and she delivered a truly customized, informative, engaging and inspiring talk. Not only did she share her knowledge in a way the audience could relate to, but she also provided supportive and helpful strategies that the audience could implement immediately. We received a lot of positive feedback from the audience and I am very pleased with how the event went.”

—Alaina Tennison

COO at PwC Canada and National Managing Partner, People & Partnership

“The attendees and our members absolutely loved your talk. One of our senior leaders came up to me and let me know they usually do not like Keynote Presenters in general, but they thought you were absolutely phenomenal and was the best presenter we have ever had. Thank you again for your energy and sharing your presentation at not only a high level, but also in a very understandable way.”

—Matt Hidalgo

Conference Coordinator/Curator, California Workforce Association

“Thank you so much for joining us last week and sharing your expertise with our workforce! We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback and your words are helping us spur discussion about the importance of investing deeply in wellness.”

—Kristopher Rose

Senior Advisor to the Director, United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

“I reached out to Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier to present a bilingual keynote address at the annual Symposium of the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) in 2015. This is a group of over 600 executives, some who were in the room, most attending via videoconferencing from other Canadian cities. To this day, I still put Dr. Pelletier’s name forward when asked about compelling speakers on workplace mental health and resilience. Working and interacting with Marie-Hélène in preparation for the event was effortless and professional. Her session was one of the best received of the entire event. Participants had noted her as being a thoughtful and well-prepared speaker, who delivered a highly relevant presentation with clear mastery of the subject and practical take-aways.”

—Edith Bostwick

Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel, Environment Legal Services, Department of Justice Canada

“Dr. P recently gave a thoughtful, compassionate, and call to action oriented talk to our Association which was not only well received by our members but became a much request recording watched by their in-house teams. Mental health always an important topic is even more important as we emerge from the pandemic and continue to manage our way through uncertain times. Dr. P left everyone feeling a little more in control of their own mental health.”

—Michael Rothe

President & Chief Executive Officer at Canadian Finance & Leasing Association

“Dr. Pelletier recently shared her insights and expertise with our leaders, and greatly contributed to the quality of our conference. Her presentation was a great success, and it was a pleasure working with MH!”

—Alain Doucet

President & CEO at Canadian College of Health Leaders

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.

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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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BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT FACILITATION & MODERATION INNOVATION & CREATIVITY MENTAL HEALTH WORKPLACE RESILIENCE & WELL-BEING KEYNOTE SPEECHES BUSINESS LEADERSHIP

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“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.”

50+ speeches a year

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