Dr. Pelletier is a highly accomplished speaker (50+ speeches/year), merging business management and psychology to champion leadership resilience and workplace health. With extensive experience in corporate, insurance, governance, and public sectors, she offers national and international perspectives on mental health as a key pillar of overall well-being. As a work psychologist with over 20 years of expertise in clinical and workplace psychology, she holds a Ph.D. and an MBA from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Pelletier’s impressive career includes spearheading mental health strategies for Sun Life Financial, where she was also the Assistant Vice-President of Workplace Health. Dr. Pelletier has been coaching executives for two decades and has been featured in Forbes and Fast Company. Her dynamic presentations inspire and educate, making her a trusted authority in the field by Fortune 500 companies, governments and corporations.
Keynote Speeches
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
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. 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.
She 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
High performance organizations – where long hours are the norm – are fertile ground for resilience-bending pressures. While the rewards are many, the key to continuing success is the sustainability of employee wellbeing. How can employees and teams maintain their high performance without breaking their much-needed resilience? In this keynote, Dr. Pelletier examines the specifics of psychological resilience in high performance organizations. She outlines the actions that individuals and teams can take to maintain, rebuild and bring even more resilience to their work and personal lives – without sacrificing high performance and its rewards.
- Recognize the factors within high performance organizations that can impact resilience
- Predict the risk to psychological resilience with better accuracy – and understand the actions that can help
- Reconstruct your approach to your own and your team’s psychological resilience
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
- Resilience for leaders and their teams
- Growth mindset
- Mental agility
- Resilience and change through challenging times
- Challenging assumptions
- Identify protective factors
- Resilience and change through challenging times
- Managing increasing demands
- Growth mindset
- Compassion fatigue and burnout
- Getting ahead of stress and anxiety
- Resilience for leaders and managers
- Mental health through dynamic events
- Your individual strategic resilience plan
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