Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier is an award-winning workplace mental health expert, psychologist, advisor and speaker. She’s one of only a handful of work psychologists holding both a Ph.D. and MBA. Any of her presentations can be approved for Continuing Education (CE) credits.
Even more powerful than a standing ovation?
Getting invited back.
MH delivers
often to companies who invite her back multiple times
As a keynote speaker and panel moderator, Dr. Pelletier, or “MH” as many call her, combines psychological research, clinical practice experience, and business management expertise to create presentations that leave participants with new insights and easy takeaways proven to make a difference.
With energy, passion, knowledge, rigour, and humour, she is a motivational keynote speaker and an engaging workshop facilitator who inspires participants to take action that leads to results.
Her depth of expertise, paired with her personable and relatable approach, allows her to confidently answer any audience question.
In this keynote, which complements her award-winning book “The Resilience Plan” Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier combines her vast expertise in work psychology, workplace mental health, and leadership 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.
Packed with engaging stories, relatable examples, and hands-on tactics, this keynote empowers you to take the driver’s seat in managing your resilience. You’ll learn how to weave resilience into your daily work and personal life, not just as a reactive measure, but as a proactive strategy.
Key takeaways include:
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 clinical work as a 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 these changes and turn them into an advantage. By approaching this moment in time with curiosity, agility and renewed energy and purpose, we can not only adapt to change, we can thrive.
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.
The increasing presence of artificial intelligence in our lives can leave many overwhelmed and exhausted between new technologies and the need to keep up. For some, this can lead to various levels of anxiety.
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.
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.
Diverse teams have the potential to bring a breath of perspectives and generate innovative ideas. Yet, that potential is not always observed. A key moderator in this equation is psychological safety. While every team is different, most teams need psychological safety to unlock their potential.
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 resilience and workplace mental health, and the impacts of psychological safety on adaptation to change, action-orientation and other benefits that may surprise you.
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.
If done right, strategically planning for your resilience can be a game-changer. Yet, with busy schedules and multiple variables, it’s not surprising that most professionals and leaders just plow ahead without giving their resilience due attention.
This interactive workshop will change that. Through hands-on exercises and discussion, participants will craft a focused personal plan to support their resilience in their life and career.
In this workshop, Dr. Pelletier guides participants to:
This workshop is delivered in-person or virtually in a single 90-minute session, or virtually in four (4) 40-minute workshops, where participants can integrate their learnings and ask questions over the course of the engagement.
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:
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.
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 Sun Life Financial, one of the world’s leading financial institutions.
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.
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.
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.
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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