Programs and Services
workplace mental health programs
Training | consulting | events
custom-designed to EQUIP Your leaders and EMPLOYEES for their next conversation. Equip Your Workforce With Skills That Drive Results.
Workplace mental health isn’t just a wellness issue — it’s a business issue.
Check out our services & programs below, designed to give leaders, HR professionals, managers, & employees practical solutions that improve skills, strengthen workplace culture, & improve business outcomes.
Looking for a program with customized content? No problem, we’ve got you covered.
All programs available in person & online.
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FIRESIDE INTERVIEWS
Don’t want to just host ‘another webinar’? Contact us about a fireside interview to host your next mental health at work event in an accessible, engaging, & approachable setting
Great for: conferences or summits, executive summit, all-company meetings, or leadership trainings.
Sometimes the best learning and education are delivered through storytelling and intentional conversations. And, real-time role modeling from people in your business.
Fireside interviews are a great way to get your employees and leaders involved in events so the rest of your organization can hear from “one of their own”, which will encourage your colleagues, employees, and leaders to really pay attention to mental health at work.
SAMPLE fireside interview TOPICS
Why Building Discomfort Tolerance Is A Workplace Mental Health Imperative
Why This Matters: Learning how to tolerate discomfort helps people stay grounded and effective when facing feedback, change, or high-pressure situations.
Why Mental Health at Work Is A Critical Business Conversation
Why This Matters: Addressing mental health at work reduces avoidable burnout-related absences, improves employee experience, and makes workplaces more functional for everyone.
Understanding Mental Health Through The Lens Of Individual Experience
Why This Matters: Recognizing that people experience mental health differently allows workplaces to provide support that is both relevant and equitable.
Managing Workplace Mental Health During Organizational Transition & Times of Uncertainty
Why This Matters: Supporting mental health helps employees and managers effectively handle change during layoffs, mergers, or restructures, while organizations preserve trust and overall performance. Effectively navigating uncertainty helps employees manage stress and gives leaders tools to maintain direction and stability.
Why Mental Health Matters In Human Resources
Why This Matters: Ensuring that frontline HR professionals have resources for their own mental health, are better able to manage conflict, compliance, and employee needs without overload.
Legal COMPLIANCE program
THE RIGHT STUFF™ - CONVERSATIONAL & LEGAL APPROACHES TO MENTAL HEALTH AT WORK
In Partnership with Baird Holm LLP
Great for: legal compliance and conversational methods training for leaders, managers, Human Resources, and Health & Safety functions.
Struggling to understand how to talk about mental health at work, AND, follow the law too? Countless businesses avoid talking about mental health in the workplace because they don't know how and don't want to do the wrong thing.
Good news: concrete information is available to guide you and your business on how to get mental health at work conversations RIGHT, with the conversational skills and legal knowledge that every business should have.
The Workplace Mental Health Method™ has partnered with Kelli Lieurance, JD, Partner and employment lawyer at Baird Holm LLP, to teach your business exactly that.
KEYNOTES
Great for: conferences, summits, executive summit, leadership offsites, or all-company meetings.
Do you need someone to spark real interest in your company about mental health? Melissa’s ‘motivational cattle prod style’ inspires and motivates your employees to take action now.
She starts the conversation in an engaging and realistic way and offers assurances that not only ok to talk about mental health at work, but that it’s crucial too. Her delivery is informative, research-backed, and includes audience participation.
SAMPLE keynote TOPICS
How To Practice Sustainable Stress Management
Why This Matters: Sustainable stress management gives people personalized, realistic ways to maintain energy, concentrate on tasks, and recover from challenges.
Why Leadership Mental Health Matters
Why This Matters: Leaders who manage their mental health make clearer decisions, communicate more consistently, and guide teams more effectively.
Personalizing How You Navigate Change
Why This Matters: Encouraging employees to adapt coping strategies to their own needs makes transitions less disruptive for individuals and the organization.
How to Navigate Uncertainty As a Leader
Why This Matters: Leaders who build skills for handling uncertainty provide steadiness and direction even when outcomes are unclear.
Taking A Skills-Based Approach To Mental Health At Work
Why This Matters: Teaching specific skills for talking about mental health creates a workforce that can address challenges proactively instead of waiting for crises. Intentionally creating a workplace culture of mental health, for everyone.
TEAM BUILDING & Team OFFSITE EVENTS
Looking for an engaging speaker or facilitator for your annual offsite meeting that doesn’t suck?
Great for: leadership teams or all-company annual offsite events
Is your startup in growth stealth mode? Did your organization get a new CEO? Is your leadership team struggling to work together?
Melissa provides team offsite and company annual offsite events with engaging, sticky, and actionable material that your employees will actually remember, and use. Melissa will work with you to design a custom team offsite or company offsite event that will achieve the meeting outcomes you’re looking for.
WORKSHOPS, WEBINARS, & TEAM FACILITATION
Looking for workshops that actually work?
Great for: employee offsites, leadership offsites, internal leadership training, internal employee training, or as a conference break-out session.
Melissa offers live interactive workshops, seminars, and team facilitation sessions in both virtual and onsite settings. Pre-recorded trainings are also available. These workshops are time-efficient, engaging, and really pack a punch.
Workshops, webinars, and team facilitation sessions include: interactive education, practical reflection, group discussion, and both individual and collective commitments.
SAMPLE workshop TOPICS
Critical Principles of Emotional Intelligence and Intentional Communication At Work
Why This Matters: Emotional intelligence and intentional communication improve clarity, reduce misunderstandings, and strengthen daily collaboration.
Critical Principles of Constructive Conflict at Work
Why This Matters: Constructive conflict skills help teams resolve disagreements in ways that move projects forward instead of stalling them.
Using Motivational Coaching as a Leadership Skill
Why This Matters: A coaching approach to leadership promotes accountability, encourages problem-solving, and improves work relationships.
How To Manage Imposter Syndrome at Work
Why This Matters: Learning to manage Imposter Syndrome helps individuals recognize their skills, contribute with more confidence, and reduce the self-doubt that interferes with daily work.
Sustainable HR Strategies For Mental Health At Work
Why This Matters: Sustainable HR strategies balance employee wellbeing with organizational needs, reducing turnover and improving long-term consistency.
STRATEGIC CONSULTING
Great for: thought partnership, strategic planning, and program development.
Does your business need someone on a month-to-month basis to advise on our company’s mental health at work strategy? Does your organization need workplace mental health consulting to assist your Human Resources or L&D departments with mental well-being education programs? Or to help set up and your mental health employee resource group (ERG)? Melissa has a variety of consulting packages, customized to your company's needs.
Core service offering: consulting workplace mental health strategy, program deployment, and upskilling employees
Support areas:
Ongoing strategic advising to senior leadership, human resources, and L&D departments
Thought leadership for program implementation to train your workforce on workplace mental health skills
Assist in the formation and ongoing advising of mental health ERGs
How to Create a Mental Health at Work Roadmap
In-house continuing education training for leaders and employees
PANELS
Looking for a panelist with expert credentials and actual field experience?
Great for: all-company meetings, ERG meetings, executive summit, conferences, or summits.
You pick the topic and Melissa starts the conversation — whether it’s internal at your company, a summit, or a conference. Melissa’s skillset serves as a useful, complementary perspective to other experts on your panel.
STRENGTHS DEPLOYMENT INVENTORY (SDI) team ASSESSMENT
Learn Your Team’s Strengths Through Crucial Conversations
Great for: employee offsites, leadership offsites, internal employee training, internal leadership training, or as a conference break-out session
Tired of giving your employees countless personality assessments that ‘give insight’ and don’t inspire action? It’s time to use the Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI). This assessment tool helps your team perform better, by understanding their relationships to themselves, and each other, helping them to collaborate and communicate more effectively. In the words of the Core Strengths Founders, it’s “The ROI of Relationship Intelligence (RQ)”.
