Mark Henick

Workplace mental health is often treated as an HR checkbox — a policy posted, a webinar watched, a wellness day observed. But culture is not built in a day, and it is not sustained by awareness alone.

In this keynote designed specifically for corporate and organizational audiences, Mark examines the structural, social, and psychological conditions that either support or undermine mental health at work. Drawing on his experience working with teams, leaders, and organizations across sectors, he explores how workplaces can move from performative wellness to genuine psychological safety — and why that shift matters for retention, productivity, and human dignity.

Audiences leave with a clear-eyed understanding of what it actually takes to build a workplace where people feel safe enough to struggle, speak up, and succeed.

The mental health crisis in schools is not just a student problem. Teachers are leaving the profession in record numbers, administrators are managing crises they were never trained for, and the pressure to “do more with less” is pushing some of the most dedicated people in education to their breaking points.

This keynote is designed for school staff, educators, and administrators — the adults who hold the mental health of their communities in their hands every single day. Mark draws on his own experiences within the school system — as a struggling student and as an advocate who has worked alongside educators — to offer a frank, compassionate conversation about what staff need, what students need, and how the two are more connected than most people realize.

This is not a talk about lesson plans. It’s a talk about the human beings who make schools what they are — and what it takes to keep them whole.

University and college campuses have never faced a greater mental health challenge. Students are arriving with higher levels of anxiety, trauma, and uncertainty than any previous generation — and institutions are scrambling to keep pace.

But the conversation on campus often stops at services: hotlines, counsellors, crisis protocols. This keynote goes further. Mark explores the social, cultural, and environmental factors that shape mental health on campus — including perfectionism, belonging, identity, financial stress, and the hidden pressures of emerging adulthood.

Designed for students, student leaders, faculty, and campus staff alike, this keynote builds a common language around mental health and challenges every person in the room to consider their role in shaping the culture around them. Because campus mental health is not just a clinical issue — it is a community one.

Healthcare workers are trained to put patients first — and to keep their own struggles to themselves. But the toll of that culture is real, measurable, and growing. Burnout, moral injury, compassion fatigue, and suicide among healthcare professionals are not simply symptoms of a hard job. They are the consequences of systems that demand humanity from their workers while offering precious little in return.

In this keynote crafted for healthcare audiences — clinicians, administrators, allied health professionals, and support staff — Mark draws on his own clinical background and his lived experience as a mental health patient to speak with rare honesty about what it means to struggle in a profession built around healing others.

This is not a talk about self-care tips. It’s a conversation about systemic change, professional identity, and what it might look like to build healthcare cultures where workers are not expected to sacrifice themselves in silence.

Labour movements were built on the idea that workers deserve dignity — safe conditions, fair treatment, and the right to be seen as human beings, not just units of production. Mental health is the next frontier of that fight.

In this keynote developed for union audiences, Mark speaks directly to the culture of toughness, stoicism, and solidarity that defines so much of organized labour — and how those same values can both protect and endanger mental health. He explores how industries with high physical demands, shift work, chronic stress, and workplace trauma create conditions that are uniquely challenging for mental well-being, and what workers and their unions can do to change the conversation.

This is a talk that respects the history and values of the labour movement while challenging it to evolve — because the strength of a union is only as real as the wellbeing of the people inside it.