Marie-Helene Pelletier, PhD, MBA
Leadership Psychologist, Executive Coach | Keynote Speaker Strategic Resilience, AI, Change, Innovation, & High-Performance | Author of The Resilience Plan
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- Author of award-winning book, The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health. Featured as a Top 5 book to read by both Inc. Magazine and Forbes
- Highly rated instructor at the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business Executive Education and member of the Harvard Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals.
- Practicing leadership psychologist and executive coach with over 20 years of experience and one of few holding both a Ph.D. and an MBA.
- Member of the Global Clinical Practice Network of the World Health Organization, and past Director on the board of the International Association of Applied Psychology.
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Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier
Blending business acumen and psychological best practices to improve results
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, and leadership) into strategies professionals, business leaders and their teams need to thrive.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”. Dr. Pelletier is a highly rated instructor at the University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Management, Executive Education and a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals.
Her award-winning book, The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health, was named a “Top 5 Book to Read” by Inc. and Forbes.
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.
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
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
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
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- Cultivate an environment where curiosity drives innovative solutions and fuels engagement.
- Lead authentically to inspire trust and genuine connections, fostering creative thinking within teams.
- Embrace agility to thrive in a fast-paced environment, enhancing creativity and productivity.
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