Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier
PhD, MBA, LPsych
BC, CAStrengthen leadership performance and resilience using evidence-based psychology and business expertise—equipping leaders and teams to navigate change, prevent burnout, and adapt effectively in an AI-driven workplace.
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 member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals. She has also taught leadership resilience for many years at the University of British Columbia’s School of Business. 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.
She is a TEDx speaker and delivered Crossing the River: Resilience in the Age of AI, exploring the human and leadership implications of rapid technological change.
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 member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals. She has also taught leadership resilience for many years at the University of British Columbia’s School of Business. 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.
She is a TEDx speaker and delivered Crossing the River: Resilience in the Age of AI, exploring the human and leadership implications of rapid technological change.
The Resilience Plan: Sustaining Performance in Times of Relentless Change
In this keynote, which complements her award-winning book The Resilience Plan, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier combines her expertise in leadership psychology, workplace mental health, and business to reframe resilience as a strategic capability rather than a personal trait. This session goes beyond recovery to focus on how leaders and professionals sustain performance, health, and judgment under continuous pressure and change.
Dr. Pelletier debunks common myths...
Performance and Decision-Making in the Age of AI
As AI and emerging technologies rapidly reshape how work is done, leaders and professionals are navigating new cognitive, emotional, and ethical pressures. In this session, Dr. Pelletier explores the human side of technological transformation, clarifying how AI-driven change affects performance, mental health, and adaptability at work.
Drawing on research and real-world organizational experience, Dr. Pelletier helps participants make sense of interdisciplinary change...
Protecting Judgment and Performance in Complex Times
Leaders are operating in environments defined by acceleration, restructuring, and technological transformation. Expectations continue to rise — often alongside resource constraints — increasing both performance pressure and ethical complexity.
Resilience in this context is about sustaining decision quality, ethical clarity, and trust under chronic load.
Drawing on recent research in behavioral ethics, organizational psychology, and leadership science, Dr....
Sustaining Performance in High-Stakes Environments
In an era of relentless transformation, leaders, professionals, and workplace cultures are impacted in complex and compounding ways. Some pressures reflect accelerated pre-existing trends; others are entirely new. What is clear is that sustained performance now requires a more deliberate and strategic approach to resilience.
In this presentation, Dr. Pelletier brings together her work as an executive coach and practicing work psychologist with current research to help...
Psychological Safety and High-Performance Teams
High-performing teams are not defined by the absence of challenge, pressure, or disagreement — they are defined by their ability to speak candidly, learn quickly, and adapt effectively in complex environments. Psychological safety is a critical condition that enables these outcomes, yet it is often misunderstood or oversimplified.
In this keynote, workplace psychologist and leadership advisor Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier draws on current research and her experience...
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