126. Building Resilience: Practical Strategies for Personal and Professional Well-Being with Marie-Helene Pelletier
Overview
If you’re feeling exhausted, overwhelmed or burned out, you’re not alone. But rather than push or grind through it as so many of us try to do, today’s guest offers a different approach: a resilience plan.
A resilience plan is a proactive strategy for managing our resilience, even as external factors impact us. Building resilience isn’t just for individuals either, it’s vital for the health of our teams.
In this conversation, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier and I talk about consciously building resilience so that we can operate at our best and achieve our goals and ambitions without burning out.
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More About Our Guest
Throughout her career in business management and psychology, Dr. Pelletier has spearheaded a dialogue on the crucial issues of leadership resilience and workplace health. Drawing on her extensive background in corporate, insurance, governance and public sectors, she brings national and international perspectives and expertise on mental health and resilience as a key pillar of overall health. She is a bilingual practicing psychologist with over 20 years of experience in clinical psychology and advisory workplace psychology and holds a Ph.D. and an MBA from the University of British Columbia. Marie-Hélène is a Member of the Global Clinical Practice Network of the World Health Organization, and past Director on the boards of the Canadian Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology. She has presented, authored and co-authored a number of industry and academic publications and has won numerous academic and industry awards. In 2024, Dr. Pelletier will release her new book, The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
The three pillars of health and the role mental health plays in our overall well-being
Why adversity and demands aren’t always negative
The three main components of burnout and why the WHO calls it an occupational phenomenon
The factors at play in what MH calls the “strategic resilience double helix”
Why it’s worth it for everyone to proactively invest in their resilience
How leaders can support building resilience in their teams
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