Melissa Doman

Melissa Doman, MA is an Organizational Psychologist, Former 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 and mentored at SXSW, has been featured as a subject matter expert in the BBC, CNN, Vogue, NPR, Fast Company, CNBC, Inc., and in LinkedIn’s Top 10 Voices on Mental Health. Having lived abroad in South Korea, England, Australia, and traveled to 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 aims to accomplish that.

Keynote

Why Mental Health Matters In Human Resources, Too

It’s not new information that HR professionals are burnt out, and in some cases, quitting the industry because of this. There is a consistent, and rising, expectation that HR needs to be ‘everything to everybody’, and support mental health at work, without being able to join that conversation for themselves. We know this is unsustainable, unhealthy, and unreasonable – and we must talk about this. In this engaging interactive keynote, Melissa Doman, MA, Organizational Psychologist, Former 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™, will talk about why mental health at work is a crucial conversation for Human Resources professionals themselves, and not just in the businesses they serve.

Session with Aurelia Hack

Why Developing Discomfort Tolerance Is a Critical Workplace Mental Health Skill

There’s one thing that often gets overlooked when it comes to supporting workplace mental health: building discomfort tolerance. Whether it’s tough feedback, a heavy workload, or just the chaos of daily life (and the world at large), humans naturally avoid feeling discomfort, because we experience it as a threat (whether we realize it or not). But instead of running from it, employees should learn to manage it (even if they don’t want to) —because discomfort is inevitable, especially these days. When employees can tolerate discomfort, they (ideally) become more emotionally agile, make better decisions, and can handle tough conversations (the ones we often need the most) with a bit more ease. The positive effect? Stronger teams, better problem-solving, and less burnout. In this engaging fireside chat, Melissa Doman, MA, Organizational Psychologist, Former Mental Health Therapist, Author of Yes, You Can Talk About MentalHealth 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™ and Occupational and Organizational Psychologist, mental health at work expert, and Owner of Hack Corporate Health Consulting & Communication, Aurelia Hack, M.Sc., will speak about what discomfort tolerance is, why it’s a critical skill for mental health at work, and why HR professionals can (and should) prioritize and deploy discomfort tolerance training in their businesses.