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Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier, PhD, MBA

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Vancouver, BC, Canada

Leadership Psychologist and Workplace Mental Health Expert

Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier (known as Dr. MH) is an award-winning workplace mental health expert, psychologist, executive coach, speaker (50+ speeches/year) and author of The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health. With a robust understanding of the intersection between business success and strong workplace mental health, Marie-Hélène brings a signature mix of business and clinical expertise to the groups she works with by translating psychology research into strategies professionals, business leaders and their teams need to thrive.

Over the course of her career, she has participated on the boards of the Canadian Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology. She has also been an active member of the Global Clinical Practice Network of the World Health Organization, a role that she continues to this day. She has won numerous academic and industry awards, being described as a top industry leader with “credentials that make her uniquely suited to help guide the continued evolution of psychological health in the workplace.” She’s been featured in publications like Fast Company, Forbes, INC and Thrive Global and her work has been published in academic journals such as Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and Organizational Dynamics.

Canada Speakers Performance & Productivity Business & Workplace Health Innovation & Change Management Leadership Motivation & Inspiration

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Marie-Helene Pelletier in the media January 1, 2025

Keynote Speeches

Virtual Keynotes & Webinars
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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.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Cultivate an environment where curiosity drives innovative solutions and fuels engagement.
  2. Lead authentically to inspire trust and genuine connections, fostering creative thinking within teams.
  3. Embrace agility to thrive in a fast-paced environment, enhancing creativity and productivity.
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. 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.

  • 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

    Sample client review on this topic:
    “…you were absolutely phenomenal and was the best presenter we have ever had. Thank again for your energy and sharing your presentation at not only a high level, but also in a very understandable way.”

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. 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.

  • Understand the links between your mindset, resilience and mental health.
  • Distinguish what factors contribute 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.
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. 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 Workplace Mental Health

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. 

  • Define neurodiversity and its connection with mental health
  • Understand how beliefs and literacy impact support of neurodiversity at work
  • Identify actions to start taking now to support neurodiversity
Coexisting with Adversity: Thriving in a high-stakes, high-performance culture

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.

The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health

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:

  • Embracing Proactive Resilience: Dive deep into what it means to approach resilience as an ongoing, strategic endeavor 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.

Audience reviews:

  • Thank you so much for joining us last week and sharing your expertise with our workforce! We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback and your words are helping us spur discussion about the importance of investing deeply in wellness. - Senior Advisor to the Director, United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
  • Marie-Helene is one of those rare experts who truly grasps what it takes for us (both individually and organizations) to achieve goals that we may only dream of. As a colleague I am impressed with her speaking abilities. She inspires participants to take action that leads to results and does this with passion, knowledge, experience and joy. - Medical Doctor and President, Brigham and Associates (U.S.A)
  • Dr. Pelletier recently kicked off our first in-person event in over two years, and we are so glad she did! Her talk on resilience and workplace mental health was so engaging for our audience and very helpful. We are looking forward to working with Dr. Pelletier again in the future. - Director, Stakeholder Engagement, Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCH)
  • Dr. Pelletier is an excellent speaker! She gave a virtual presentation in French for our conference and she was professional and prepared from start to end. She tailored her speaking points to ensure they were relevant to our audience and her presentation was very well received. I felt she did an especially great job of captivating the audience in a virtual environment with her energy and her use of visual aids. Thank you again, Dr. Pelletier, for sharing your expertise at our event! - Manager, Corporate Partnerships and Marketing, Coaching Association of Canada
  • Her style is engaging, her energy is exhilarating, and her content relevant and research-based. I can see why MH is in high demand as a speaker, an advisor, and an educator. - Director, Digital Learning
  • We thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Pelletier's participation in our event. Her professionalism yet approachability was palpable during both the keynote sessions as well as the panel. We should not hesitate in recommending her for similar events, and or asking her back for one of our future events. - Events Coordinator
  • Dr. Pelletier presented a bilingual keynote address at the annual Symposium of the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) in 2015 (600 executives). To this day, I still put Dr. Pelletier's name forward when asked about compelling speakers on workplace mental health and resilience. Her session was one of the best received of the entire event. - Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Environment Legal Services

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Speaker Biography

Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier is an award-winning workplace mental health expert, psychologist, executive coach and speaker. She’s one of only a handful of work psychologists holding both a PHD and MBA.

Marie-Helene brings a signature mix of business and clinical expertise to the groups she works with. She translates psychology research (about health, resiliency, leadership and even the impacts of Artificial Intelligence/AI) into strategies professionals, business leaders and their teams need to thrive.

  1. Provides expertise for boosting performance. Marie-Helene 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. She held executive leadership roles, including at a major Fortune 500 corporation.
  2. Builds leadership and organizational resilience. Through her speaking engagements, Marie-Helene provides professionals and business leaders with concrete steps to prevent fatigue and burnout – and gain energy, even in tough times. She can help your leaders and their team members shift perspectives and regain and retain their passion.
  3. Helps your organization manage change. Marie-Helene provides business leaders and their team members with the psychological tools needed to adapt to, and embrace, transformational change. She equips them to respond quickly, make good decisions, and maintain stamina for ongoing productivity.
  4. Combines style with substance. Marie-Helene is a dynamic speaker. She has 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.

In her presentations, Dr. Pelletier draws from what clients call a “clear mastery of the subject matter.” She speaks with authority to engage and inspire participants with passion, knowledge, expertise, and joy. And she shares this expertise in many ways, from keynote speeches, to panel moderator roles, to more informal fireside chats.

Thought Leadership and Industry Awards
Over the course of her career, she has participated on the boards of the Canadian Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology. She has also been an active member of the Global Clinical Practice Network of the World Health Organization, a role that she continues to this day.

She’s been featured in publications like Fast Company, Forbes and Thrive Global and her work has been published in academic journals such as Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and Organizational Dynamics. 

She has won numerous academic and industry awards, being described as a top industry leader with “credentials that make her uniquely suited to help guide the continued evolution of psychological health in the workplace”. In 2024, Dr. Pelletier published her award-winning book, The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health. Shortly after, Inc. and Forbes listed the book in their top 5 Books to Help Build Resilience in High-Performing Teams.

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