Melissa Doman, M.A.

Organizational Psychologist, Former Clinical Mental Health Therapist, & Mental Health at Work Specialist, Author, and Founder

Melissa Doman, MA is an Organizational Psychologist, Former Clinical Mental Health Therapist, Author of Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work (Here’s Why And How To Do It Really Well) and Cornered Office: Why We Need To Talk About Leadership Mental Health, and Founder of The Workplace Mental Health Method™. Melissa works with companies across industries around the globe – including clients like Google, Dow Jones, the Orlando City Soccer Club, Microsoft, Salesforce, Siemens, Estée Lauder, & Janssen. She’s spoken at SXSW, has been featured as a subject matter expert in CNN, Vogue, NPR, Fast Company, the BBC, CNBC, Inc., and in LinkedIn’s 2022 Top 10 Voices on Mental Health. Having lived abroad in South Korea, England, Australia and traveled to nearly 50 countries, Melissa calls upon her global experiences to inform how she works with companies around the world. She has one core goal: to equip companies, individuals, and leaders to have constructive conversations about mental health, team dynamics, and communication in the workplace. Her work and book aim to accomplish just that.

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  • Melissa Doman, M.A. Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    USA

Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

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 ...

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

Building Discomfort Tolerance A Workplace Mental Health Imperative

Why Mental Health at Work Is A Critical Business Conversation

Talking About Mental Health At Work In Times of Volatility

Mental Health In Human Resources Industry

Understanding Mental Health Through The Lens Of Individual Experience

Managing Workplace Mental Health During Times of Stress & Uncertainty

Managing Mental Health During Layoffs, Mergers, Acquisitions, & Restructures

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LEGAL COMPLIANCE PROGRAM - THE RIGHT STUFF™ - CONVERSATIONAL & LEGAL APPROACHES TO MENTAL HEALTH AT WORK

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? ...

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.

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KEYNOTES

Great for: conferences, summits, executive summit, leadership offsites, or all-company meetings. Do you need someone to spark real interest in ...

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 Stress Management & Mental Wellbeing Non-Negotiables™ Fuel Productivity

Taking A Skills-Based Approach To Mental Health At Work

Personalizing How You Navigate Change

Personalizing How You Navigate Change

How To Create A Culture Of Mental Health In Your Company

Why Leadership Mental Health Matters

Sustainable HR Strategies For Mental Health At Work

How to Navigate Uncertainty As a Leader

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TEAM BUILDING & TEAM OFFSITE EVENTS

Looking for an engaging speaker or facilitator for your annual offsite meeting that doesn’t suck? Great for...

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.

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STRENGTHS DEPLOYMENT INVENTORY (SDI) TEAM BUILDING FACILITATION

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

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)”.

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WORKSHOPS, WEBINARS, & TEAM FACILITATION

Looking for workshops that actually work? Great for: employee offsites, leadership offsites, ...

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

Achievable & Practical Stress Management

How to Give Good Feedback Through Radical Candor

Talking To Your Team About Mental Health At Work

How To Support Your Peers’ Mental Health at Work

Emotional Intelligence and Intentional Communication

Critical Principles of Constructive Conflict

Using Motivational Coaching as a Leadership Style

Managing Imposter Syndrome at Work

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STRATEGIC CONSULTING

Great for: thought partnership, strategic planning, and program development. Does your business need ...

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

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PANELS

Looking for a panelist with expert credentials and actual field experience? Great for: all-company meetings, ERG meetings, executive summit, ...

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.

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STRENGTHS DEPLOYMENT INVENTORY (SDI) TEAM ASSESSMENT

Learn Your Team’s Strengths Through Crucial Conversations Great for: employee offsites, leadership offsites, internal employee ...

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)”.

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About Keynote Speaker Melissa Doman, M.A.

Melissa Doman, MA is an Organizational Psychologist, Former Clinical Mental Health Therapist, & Author Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work (Here’s Why And How To Do It Really Well), & the Founder of The Workplace Mental Health Method™

She’s been featured as a subject matter expert speaker at SXSW, in editorial features for CNN, Vogue, NPR, the BBC, CNBC, Fast Company, Inc., and in LinkedIn’s 2022 Top 10 Voices for Mental Health and Big Ideas 2023 List.

Melissa works with companies across industries around the globe – including clients like Google, Etsy, the Orlando City Soccer Club, Dow Jones, Microsoft, Estée Lauder, Siemens, Salesforce, MAC, Clinique, Aveda, Janssen, Bumble & bumble, and more.

Having lived abroad in South Korea, England, Australia, and traveled to 45+ countries, Melissa calls upon her global experiences to inform how she works with companies around the world.

Melissa has one core goal: to equip companies, individuals, and leaders to have constructive conversations about mental health at work, team dynamics, and communication in the workplace. Her work and book aim to accomplish just that.

Melissa holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Adler University and a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Communications from The George Washington University. While in clinical practice, she held several licenses at the state and national levels and achieved certification through a Stanford University-sponsored program as a Chronic Disease Self-Management Educator. She is also a Certified Professional Facilitator for the Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI).

Melissa uses her unique hybrid background of education and field experience in both clinical and organizational psychology to translate complex ideas into simple actionable knowledge to help bridge this skills gap for employees and leaders in your organization.

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