Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Resilience and Change: Harnessing the Opportunity of the Moment

  In an era of transformational change, workers and the workplace are experiencing the impacts 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, workplace mental health expert Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier brings together her weekly work as a practicing work psychologist with current research in workplace psychology to challenge your assumptions and help your organization understand these changes at individual, team, and organizational levels.

  Pelletier highlights the ways that organizations and individuals can both manage these changes and turn them to 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.

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

• Neurodiversity and Mental Health in the Workplace

  Your team and your organization 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 — from individuals and teams to the organization itself. 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-Hélène Pelletier 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 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 making now to support neurodiversity.

• Beyond Positive Thinking: Creating Your Growth Mindset Keynote

  Are your thoughts helping you or making things worse? For many of us, challenging times can bring thoughts that become our worst enemy.

  In this keynote, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier challenges assumptions about how much you can influence your thoughts (and support those around you). Recognizing cognitive biases and untangling unhelpful thoughts results in more clarity, creativity, and mental agility.

  Audiences will learn:

  • What cognitive biases are and how they operate in your brain.
  • The types of cognitive biases that you may experience most often.
  • How cognitive biases influence behaviours and what you can do to change their impact on mental agility.

• Psychological Safety and Team Resilience: Translating Ideas into Actions

  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. Marie-Hélène Pelletier brings together her weekly work as a practicing work psychologist with current research in psychological safety in the workplace to clarify what 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.

  Audiences will learn:

  • What team resilience and psychological safety are.
  • How to distinguish the benefits.
  • Actions and strategies you can implement now.

• The Creative Power of Mindset for Leaders Keynote

  Transformational changes impact business leaders and managers in unique ways. The potentially detrimental outcomes are numerous and significant, but the opportunity is even deeper.

  Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier shares proven strategies that can boost the resilience, creative power, and mental agility of leaders and managers. In this session, audiences will gain an understanding of the links between mindset, resilience, mental health, and professional and personal life satisfaction.

  Pelletier will discuss and distinguish what factors contribute to mental agility and health, as well as to fatigue and burnout, and examine strategies that work.

• Leading AI's Transformative Influence on Work Performance and Mental Health

  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, Marie-Hélène Pelletier clarifies the potential psychological impacts of the changes we are experiencing, simplifying ways to mitigate the less desirable impacts while optimizing the positive ones for you and your teams. With practical advice that is both research-based and experience-informed, Pelletier helps audiences find their footing to take the next steps with leadership and agility.

  Audiences will learn:

  • How AI might transform work-life in interdisciplinary ways.
  • The impacts AI may have on psychological health and approaches to turn them to your and your team’s advantage.
  • How to reconfigure your plan for psychological resilience and agility as it relates to AI.

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Your Path to Creativity, Innovation, and Success

  In the evolving landscape of work, mastering entrepreneurial leadership is key to staying ahead. In this keynote, and drawing on her psychology and leadership expertise, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier explores the research-based imperative need for adaptability. As we move forward, it is also crucial to consider the potential impacts of generative AI, be it anxiety or enthusiasm.

  Discover how your mindset can be transformed into an entrepreneurial force. Learn how to leverage your innate skills to drive creativity and innovation, foster collaboration, and inspire change. By prioritizing people skills, optimizing behaviours, and embracing resilience, with careful consideration of generative AI, you’ll propel yourself, your team and your organization to new heights in the ever-changing world of work.

• Workshop: Your Strategic Resilience Plan

  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. Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier guides participants to:

  • Translate mental health strategy from the organizational to the individual level.
  • Recognize which forces are impacting your context.
  • Formulate your custom strategic pillars and tactics as informed by your context.
  • Plan implementation and commit to your next action.

  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.

• Workshop: Workplace Mental Health Disability Prevention and Management

  As employers and stakeholders, you’re 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. Marie-Hélène 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 workshop is delivered in-person or virtually in a single 60-minute (covering 3 points) or 90-minute (covering 4 points) session, or virtually in four (4) 40-minute workshops where participants can integrate their learnings and ask questions over the course of the engagement.