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.

• Igniting Curiosity: Driving Growth Through Creativity and Innovation

  In our fast-paced and competitive environment, creativity and innovation are the keys to sustainable growth and evolving our competitive edge. This keynote equips leaders and professionals with evidence-based strategies to foster these essential skills within themselves, their teams, and organizations. By nurturing curiosity, practicing authentic leadership, and embracing agility, you can transform your team and organization into a powerhouse of innovation and high performance.

  Key takeaways include:

  • How to cultivate an environment where curiosity drives innovative solutions and fuels engagement.
  • How to lead authentically to inspire trust and genuine connections, fostering creative thinking within teams.
  • How to embrace agility to thrive in a fast-paced environment, enhancing creativity and productivity.

• Resilience and Change: 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. Marie-Hélène 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, organizations will not only adapt to change, they’ll thrive.

  Key takeaways include:

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

• Psychological Safety and Team Resilience: Translating the Big Idea into Your 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 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.

  • Understand what team resilience and psychological safety are.
  • Distinguish the benefits.
  • Learn the actions you can implement now.

• 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 —individuals, teams, and the organization. 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.

• 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, Dr. Marie-Hélène 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.

  Key takeaways include:

  • 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.

• Coexisting with Adversity: Thriving in a High-Stakes, High-Performance Culture

  Given the high-pressure cultivated by 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.

  Key takeaways include:

  • 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.

• Resilience by Design: Mastering the Art of Strategic Reinvention

  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.

  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 audiences to take the driver’s seat in managing their resilience. You will 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:

  Embracing proactive resilience: Dive deep into what it means to approach resilience as an ongoing, strategic endeavour 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.