Melissa Doman, M.A.

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 Doman’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.

Keynote sample topics:

• Achievable & Practical Stress Management: The Science, Mindset, and Defining Your Mental Wellbeing Non-Negotiables™
• Mental Health at Work: Taking a Skills-Based Approach
• How to Navigate Change at Work: Taking a Personalized Approach
• Managing Communication and Conflict In Teams
• Creating an Authentic Mental Health Culture: in Your Company
• Why Mental Health Matters for Leaders, Too: Putting Your Oxygen Mask On To Lead
• HR Strategies for Mental Health at Work: Enabling Mental Health Conversations At All Levels Of Your Company
• How to Navigate Uncertainty As a Leader: The Hidden Challenges & What To Do

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 talking about mental health at work.

Don’t want to just host ‘another webinar’? Inquire about a fireside interview to host your next mental health at work event in an accessible, engaging, & approachable setting

Sample Fireside Interview Topics:

• Why Mental Health at Work: is a Critical Business Conversation
• Fostering Constructive Mental Health at Work Discussions: In Times of Sociopolitical Volatility
• Why Your Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Is A Critical Workplace Mental Health Resource
• Mental Health In HR: Caring for the Carers
• Understanding Mental Health Through the Lens of Individual Experience: Building Shared Understanding Through Our Differences
• Managing Workplace Mental Health: During Times of Stress & Uncertainty
• Workplace Mental Wellbeing: How To Really Get It Right
• Managing Mental Health: During Layoffs, Mergers, Acquisitions, & Restructures

Great for: employee offsites, leadership offsites, internal leadership training, internal employee training, or as a conference break-out session.

Looking for workshops that actually work? Melissa Doman 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:

• How to Create a Mental Health at Work Roadmap (Advisory Session)
• Mental Health at Work Conversational Literacy®: Developing Mental Health Communication Skills
• How to Give Good Feedback: Radical Candor & Intentional Communication
• How To Support Your Team About Mental Health at Work: Do's & Don'ts
• How To Support Others On Mental Health at Work: Challenges, Considerations, & Approaches
• Emotional Intelligence and Conflict in Teams: Getting Communication Right
• Using Motivational Interviewing As a Leader: Changing How You Coach Your Team
• Managing Imposter Syndrome at Work: the Personal & Professional Impact
• Using the Strengths Deployment Inventory: Mastering Effective Team Communication and Conflict

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.

Melissa Doman LLC has partnered with Kelli Lieurance, JD, Partner and employment lawyer at Baird Holm LLP, to teach your business exactly that.

Co-Fireside Interview

Mental health at work matters in every industry, not just "traditional" ones.

The original bassist of O.A.R. and host of the *What Could Be Bad * podcast, Benj Gershman, and Organizational Psychologist, Mental Health at Work Specialist, & Author of "Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work (Here's Why and How To Do It Really Well)," Melissa Doman, M.A. want to bring this candid, and necessary, conversation into as many spaces as possible.

This co-fireside interview will explore:

• The connection between mental health and work identity
• The importance of acknowledging intention versus impact when it comes to empathy at work
• Why we need to challenge ongoing assumptions about behavioral health in non-traditional industries
• Addressing misconceptions about common mental health struggles
• Actionable strategies to manage mental wellbeing and start talking about mental health in any workplace

It's time to de-stigmatize mental health conversations across all industries and enable real change in how people have those conversations.