Keynotes & Workshops

“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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As a keynote speaker and workshop leader, 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 & Workshop Topics

The Resilience Plan: Sustaining 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

Also available as an interactive workshop.

Human Performance and Resilience in Complex Leadership Environments

Leaders are currently navigating significant change, rising complexity, emerging technologies, and increasing pressure to perform. These demands intensify pressure on attention, judgment, communication, and decision-making.

In this keynote, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier explores what leaders need in order to sustain high performance, sound judgment, and resilience in increasingly demanding environments. Grounded in psychology, leadership, and organizational resilience, this session provides practical, evidence-based strategies to help leaders have even more visibility on the impacts of this uncertainty and adapt effectively to support both performance and well-being across their teams and organization.

Key takeaways:

Understand the impacts of ongoing change, complex leadership environments and emerging technologies on resilience, adaptability, and performance.
Identify how to protect decision quality, focus, and critical thinking in fast-moving, high-pressure environments.
Identify ways to strengthen the human capabilities that remain essential alongside AI and evolving technologies, including judgment, trust, communication, and emotional intelligence.

Psychological Safety and High-Performance Teams

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

Often paired with a follow-on workshop to translate insights into practical application for teams and leaders.

Igniting Curiosity: Driving Growth Through Creativity and Innovation

In today’s environment of rapid change, evolving technologies, and increasing complexity, organizations need more than technical expertise to stay competitive. They need people who can think creatively, adapt quickly, collaborate effectively, and remain engaged under pressure.

This keynote equips leaders and professionals with evidence-based strategies to strengthen curiosity, innovation, agility, and high performance across teams and their organization. Drawing on insights from psychology, leadership, and organizational resilience, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier explores how to create a work climate where people can navigate uncertainty, generate new ideas, and sustain performance even in the most demanding environments.

Key takeaways:

Understand the impacts of ongoing change and emerging technologies on innovation, problem-solving, and engagement.
Identify how to build agility and adaptability to navigate rapid change while sustaining performance and productivity.
Identify ways to strengthen the human capabilities and curiosity organizations need to thrive in increasingly complex and AI-influenced environments.

Often paired with a follow-on workshop to translate insights into practical application for teams and leaders.

4 Reasons MH Brings Distinctive Value to Your Event

1.
Protect Judgment

MH shows leaders how sustained pressure, complexity, and change can affect judgment before performance visibly declines. She combines psychology, business insight, and senior leadership experience to help audiences protect decision quality while sustaining performance and health. She connects individual capacity with leadership responsibility and organizational risk

2.
Translate Evidence

MH translates current psychological and organizational research into clear, practical strategies leaders can apply immediately. Her evidence-based approach makes complex ideas accessible without oversimplifying the realities leaders and organizations face.

3.
Understand Leadership Reality

Having held demanding senior leadership roles herself, MH understands the pressure of making decisions with incomplete information, balancing competing priorities, and leading through sustained change. Her recommendations reflect that reality

4.
Create Practical Action

MH combines intellectual substance with warmth, energy, and a well-placed sense of humour. Her presentations create space for reflection, candid questions, and practical action—helping audiences translate insight into meaningful next steps without losing the rigour or substance of the content.

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.

Thank you very much for the conference you delivered to us on Strategic Resilience: Protecting Performance, Values, and Judgment in Complex Times.

Your presentation offered a clear and thoughtful perspective on the challenges we face in complex and fast‑moving environments. Participants appreciated the way you connected research, ethical considerations and practical insights, particularly around preserving judgment and decision‑making under sustained pressure.

Thank you as well for preparing the one‑pager summarizing the key messages from your presentation, which we were pleased to share with participants. Thank you for the quality and relevance of your contribution.

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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