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Dr. Bill Howatt is a Workplace Mental Health Keynote Speaker and brings unique solutions, tailored to your workplace’s unique challenges

As an international expert in psychological health and safety, mental health, and leaders Dr. Bill Howatt’s goal is to help employers to protect and promote employee’s mental health.

Many employers are unsure where to start or how to impact workplace mental health. There are three common reasons why workers and leaders struggle with mental health: being trapped in fear, insecure social connections, and being stuck in regret.

Using an approach called Howatt Works, Dr. Bill work with employers to support the employee experience and organizational resiliency.

Dr. Bill offers signature talks for Resiliency, Leadership, and HR professionals. He also works with organizations to design talks and trainings to meet the organization’s needs and goals. For more information on this service please reach out info@howatthr.com

Check out Dr. Bill’s collection of books to see how this can further support your organization, and inquire about bulk discounts.

Resiliency

RESILIENCY TALK

Mental Fitness to create Psychological Safe and Inclusive Workplaces

Gain clarity on what mental fitness practices can create resilient and thriving cultures.

Organizations that want to drive the DEI agenda, retain and attract top talent, and create an environment where employees want to perform to their potential require an engaged workforce.

Without psychological safety in the workplace, there is no possibility for inclusion; without inclusion, there is no opportunity for diversity and equality.

An estimated 60% of the workforce is stuck in a chronic state of disengagement that negatively impacts their employee experience, productivity, and mental health. When stress, uncertainty, or fear occupy the mind, most employees have never been trained to understand and notice how it is impacting their engagement, or they may have never been supported in the workplace and told how to focus on their self care.

In this keynote, Dr. Bill, will provide clarity on what mental fitness practices can create resilient and thriving cultures. He explains how fear, adversity load, environment is contributing to workforce languishing and being disengage. He will provide a practical framework for how both employers and employee can take advantage of mental fitness practices to drive employee engagement and to create a positive experience where all employees feel a sense of belonging. Like a physical fitness plan the mental fitness practice takes intention, effort and time to create the desirable habits for a workforce to flourish.

Learning Objectives

  • Discover how and why people experience long periods of disengagement!
  • Understand how stress, mental health (e.g., behavioral health), and mental illness are linked.
  • Develop a mental fitness plan that promotes engagement and interpersonal self-care.

Many thanks to Dr. Howatt for his recent presentation on mental well-being and ‘no more languishing’. Dr. Howatt’s open and candid presentation style resonated with the team, and we very much appreciated hearing some simple and effective tips and techniques to shifting out of those ‘blah’ feelings, and daily exercises to improve mental well-being and fitness.

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Mental health is not intuitive – it is a trainable skill.
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RESILIENCY TALK

Unlocking Resilience: Empower Your Team to Flourish

Join Dr. Bill on a transformative journey to master resilience and thrive in adversity. As an acclaimed expert in cultivating resilience as a trainable skill, Dr. Bill brings clarity to common traps that hinder effective resilience training and prevent measurable impact. Equip your team with the skills they need to not just bounce back, but to thrive. Dr. Bill will help lay out the expectations for what and how to transform your organization’s approach to resilience training.

Learning Objectives

  • Provide learners with tips to cope with work and life challenges.
  • This talk leverages Dr. Howatt’s book The Coping Crisis. Participants will receive an e-copy.

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Leadership Talks

LEADERSHIP TALK

High Performance: How to be a Psychologically Safe and Inclusive Leader

80% of the employee experience can be directly attributed to the leader-employee relationship.

Creating psychological safe and inclusive workplaces is top-of-mind for many boards, CEOs, and senior leaders because we now know a workers’ experience in the workplace will have a direct impact on predicting their retention, attraction, disability costs, productivity, sustainability, and quality of life.

The future of work suggests a critical success factor for employers’ sustainability will be people management and creating a psychologically safe work environment. Leaders must discover it is not always WHAT they are doing that matter the most it is HOW they are doing it.

In this keynote, Dr. Bill shares a shortcut for HOW to become a psychological safe leader. He provides leaders with the four core competencies that must be in place to be successful as a psychological safe leader and he offers a coaching tool for the kind of key performance behaviours that can create the habits required to facilitate a psychological safe and inclusive workplace.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand workplace psychological health and safety and the leader’s role.
  • Explore four core competencies and KPBs that facilitate psychologically safe leadership.
  • Discover how leaders can move towards psychologically safe leadership, one interaction at a
    time.

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HR Professional Development

ACCREDITED COURSE FOR HR PROFESSIONALS & LEADERS

Workplace Mental Health & Crisis Management Basics

A 12 hour professional development certificate for HR Professionals & Leaders.

About the program

Effective HR leaders understand that they may be called on to support employees in crisis. Because humans are not machines, they have emotions that can directly impact their performance. This program allows HR leaders and professionals to explore foundational knowledge and skills to deal with challenging people moments in the workplace such as crisis, mental illness, anger, and suicide.

Today many HR leaders and professionals are spending more time dealing with employees’ concerns, problems, and emotions. All HR leaders and professionals can benefit from developing their crisis management toolbox so they are prepared and ready to deal with employees who are upset, experiencing mental health issues, or are in crisis. This program’s goal is to support the learners to walk away with more knowledge and skills to manage employees at risk or in crisis.

Overview

  • This course will cover a total of seven modules. Each module is 90mins and includes activities, reflections and questions.
  • See program description for insights on each of the covered modules.
  • The participants must be present for each module to receive their certificate.
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Learning Objectives

  • Understand workplace psychological health and safety and the leader’s role.
  • Explore four core competencies and KPBs that facilitate psychologically safe leadership.
  • Discover how leaders can move towards psychologically safe leadership, one interaction at a
    time.

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Bespoke Talks

BESPOKE TALKS

Design Your Talk Opportunity

Are you seeking to inspire, educate, or transform your organization through powerful speaking engagements? Look no further than our expert team, with over 30 years of experience supporting more than 200 organizations worldwide. We specialize in crafting talks that align perfectly with your desired message and outcomes.

Our Expertise

  • Team Building: Foster unity and collaboration within your teams.
  • Mental Health/Resiliency/Mental Fitness: Address critical issues surrounding mental well-being.
  • Leadership: Develop effective leadership strategies and skills.
  • HR and Psychological Health and Safety: How to maximize the employee experience and to create psychological safe and inclusive workplaces.

Customized Talks

If your organization has unique needs beyond the listed areas, let’s discuss. We boast a vast library featuring:

  • Over 100 mental fitness micro-skills.
  • 20+ leadership short courses covering diverse topics.
  • Specialized training for HR professionals, including conflict resolution and workplace investigations.

Our Approach

Discover our tailored approach to designing talks that resonate and deliver tangible results.

Learn more about how we can elevate your next event with impactful presentations.

Let’s collaborate to create a talk that inspires, empowers, and drives success within your organization.

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