With January home to Bell Let’s Talk Day — taking place on Wednesday, January 22 in 2025 — many organizations use this as an opportunity to join the national conversation on mental health. They’ll book mental health speakers and workplace wellness experts to speak to their teams and equip them with tips and strategies that can help on both an individual and collective well-being level.
Meet some of our most requested speakers on mental health and wellness below. Through sharing their firsthand experience and professional expertise, they help audiences learn how to better support themselves and those around them on their mental health journeys.
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Mental Health Speakers
Hear heartfelt insights and learn practical strategies from these incredible speakers who share their personal mental health journeys to promote understanding and enhance our collective resilience and well-bring.
Jessica Holmes
Mental Health: The Good, the Bad, and the Funny
The stigma surrounding mental illness leads to unnecessary suffering and stops people from seeking help. Comedian and Bell Let’s Talk ambassador Jessica Holmes breaks down the stigma by using heart and humour to share her experience with depression.
Jessica expertly weaves together comedy, characters, and music to bring understanding and hope to a serious subject. Audiences leave with a better grasp of mental illness and more empathy for those suffering with it.
Anthony McLean
Fire Up Your Mental Health
Called a “master storyteller”, Anthony McLean helps audiences regain their enthusiasm, recapture their joy, and get the pep back in our step at work and at home.
Mental health encompasses more than just dealing with stress; it’s about maintaining high energy levels, clear thinking, and a joyful approach to each day. In this upbeat and inspiring presentation, Anthony provides practical tools to boost energy, enhance creativity, and infuse daily routines with enthusiasm and purpose.
Clara Hughes
Open Heart, Open Mind
The founding spokesperson for Bell Let’s Talk, Olympian Clara Hughes helped jumpstart the conversation on mental health in Canada. She believes in the power of story to enact change, and shares her raw but life-affirming journey through physical and mental pain to a life where love and understanding thrive.
Clara’s revelatory story — which begins in her childhood growing up in a home that wasn’t safe to becoming a six-time Olympic medalist and dedicated humanitarian — touches the hearts of all who hear it.
Kellylee Evans
Unbreakable: Finding Strength in Adversity
In 2013, Kellylee Evans experienced a life-altering event — she was struck by lightning while washing dishes in her home. She has spent the last decade trying to heal, experiencing setback after setback with no answers, until she finally discovered what was truly holding her back — fear.
In this inspirational keynote, Kellylee combines original songs with powerful storytelling to recount her journey to recovery. She emphasizes the important role mental health plays in our general well-being and empowers audiences to trust themselves in order to live up to their potential.
Clint Malarchuk
The Crazy Game: How I Survived in the Crease and Beyond
No job in the world of sports is as intimidating, exhilarating and stress-ridden as that of a hockey goaltender. Now imagine doing that job while suffering high anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and depression, and having your career and literally nearly cut short when a skate sliced across your neck.
Former NHL goaltender Clint Malarchuk shares his extraordinary and heart wrenching life story in his relentless effort to help end the stigma of mental illness and help others who may suffer as well.
Susan Stewart
A Bit More than a Rough Patch: What a Comedian Learned about Taking Mental Health Seriously
After enduring a mental health crisis in 2023, comedian Susan Stewart shares her story to reduce stigma, normalize experiences such as depression and anxiety, and help people see the humour in the hard parts of our lives.
Susan delivers a blend of wit and wisdom that gives audiences lots of good laughs while also delivering powerful messages about stress management, resiliency, and mental health, and how we can meet our challenges with confidence, curiosity, and a sense of humour.
Resilience and Corporate Wellness Speakers
Mental health is not only dependent on the individual. The environments where we live and work are equally important in promoting and supporting mental health. Workplace wellness experts equip leaders with the tools and strategies needed to cultivate mentally healthy workplaces that prioritize employee well-being and foster resilience.
Dr. Rumeet Billan
The Science of Belonging
Research shows that when employees feel they belong, they perform better and experience higher levels of commitment, engagement, and well-being. While an absence of belonging increases risk of isolation, underperformance, and burnout.
In this enlightening session, Dr. Rumeet Billan explores what it means to belong at work and the challenges leaders face when cultivating a sense of belonging. Audiences will leave with practical and evidence-based tools and strategies that support building, fostering, and nurturing a culture of belonging.
Dr. Lisa Belanger
Inclusive Minds, Productive Teams: Nurturing Mental Health Inclusivity at Work
Learn how to channel compassion to make work environments inclusive for those struggling with mental health challenges. Dr. Lisa Bélanger connects the science of organizational management, social psychology, and neuroscience to illustrate how mental wellness is a function of both an individual’s brain and the environment they operate within.
Audiences will learn why it’s in everyone’s best interest to support mental wellness and why the workplace is the perfect place to maximize the impact of these investments.
Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa
Organizational Wellness
Currently a resident doctor in psychiatry, Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa dives deep into the mechanics of wellness and what it looks like on an organizational level. She explores what it means to be well amongst a diverse group of people, sharing the neurobiological factors of wellness, including the science behind burnout.
Informative and practical, Chika equips leaders with tools and strategies to meet the needs of their team on a collective and individual level, and implement an organization-wide policy that promotes and protects mental health for transformative results.
Dr. Susan Biali Haas
The Resilient Life: Reducing Stress and Burnout in Today’s Wild World
With stresses in work and life at all-time highs, Dr. Susan Biali Haas walks audiences through a new way of working and living well in today’s wild world.
This session, sharing stories, evidence-based knowledge, and strategies drawn from Susan’s most recent book, The Resilient Life: Manage Stress, Prevent Burnout, and Strengthen Your Mental and Physical Health, leaves audiences equipped to fortify their minds, bodies, lives, and workplaces in the face of today’s unprecedented challenges.
Stéphane Grenier
Unlocking Better Mental Health: The Leadership Blueprint
The impact of leadership on employee well-being cannot be understated. Stéphane Grenier, a distinguished leader with more than four decades of experience, unravels the leadership blueprint for nurturing mental health. He delves into the leadership attributes, habits, and styles that foster better outcomes for employees.
Attendees will leave equipped with a toolkit of strategies and best practices to ensure healthier and more productive workplaces.
Jhanelle Peters
Balancing Performance and Well-Being
Living and working within constant change and uncertainty makes it difficult for high-performing individuals to maintain their overall well-being. A registered psychotherapist, Jhanelle Peters helps bridge that gap.
In this presentation, Jhanelle shows audiences how to achieve their goals through a more balanced mindset to create a healthy and sustainable lifestyle, while maintaining their performance. People leaders will also be able to explore the roles they must take to maintain a balanced work environment.
Contact us to learn more about our leading roster of mental health and workplace wellness experts and how to book them for your January event.