Full course description
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 11 am–12 pm PST
Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan are welcome to attend.
Location: Zoom. (Once you’ve registered, you will be directed to the course Canvas page where you can find the Zoom link and calendar invite.)
About this workshop
In an era of change and uncertainty, higher education is experiencing profound shifts. Some shifts were anticipated; others emerged without warning—all are reshaping how we teach, learn, and work together.
Join UBC alumna and Sauder School of Management and Executive Education instructor, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier for this hour-long online event, as she draws upon her unique blend of business insight and clinical expertise as a practicing workplace psychologist. In this keynote, Dr. Pelletier will challenge common assumptions and offer practical strategies to help individuals, teams, and organizations navigate change and uncertainty—not just to adapt to this current moment but to turn these challenges into opportunities.
This free event is part of a focus on wellbeing in the workplace during Thrive—UBC’s annual mental health literacy campaign. Now in the 16th year, the Thrive campaign encourages students, faculty, and staff to learn about, talk about, and explore ways to support our mental health at UBC.
Key takeaways from Dr. Pelletier’s presentation include:
- Understand the links between mindset, resilience, and mental health.
- Distinguish what factors contribute to mental agility and health, as well as fatigue and burnout.
- Reconstruct your strategic plan for the power of resilience based on strategies that work.
Important notes
- The session will be recorded and will be available for 30 days post-webinar.
- This session is hosted on Zoom Webinar. Your cameras and microphones will remain off. If you’d like to ask a question, the host can unmute you.
- Closed captioning can be enabled.
About your facilitator:
Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier (she/her) is an award-winning workplace mental health expert, psychologist, and executive coach. Fluently bilingual in both English and French, she’s one of only a handful of work psychologists holding both a PhD and MBA. Through her signature mix of business and clinical expertise, Pelletier translates the latest psychology research into actionable strategies to help audiences boost their performance, manage change, and build leadership and organizational resilience. Her presentations combine style with substance, demonstrating what clients call a “clear mastery of the subject matter.”
Pelletier is a practicing psychologist with 20+ years of experience in clinical and workplace psychology. She also has extensive experience as a senior leader in corporate, insurance, governance, and public sectors. Pelletier is an active member of the Global Clinical Practice Network of the World Health Organization, and a past director on the boards of the Canadian Psychological Association and International Association of Applied Psychology.
Pelletier’s work has been featured in publications like Forbes, Thrive Global, and Fast Company and published in academic journals such as Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and Organizational Dynamics. She is also the author of The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimize Your Work and Health, which was named a “Top 5 Book to Read” by both Inc. and Forbes.
With a Ph.D. in counselling psychology from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and an MBA from the UBC Sauder School of Business, Pelletier has won numerous academic and industry awards, including the Industry Leadership Award from Benefits Canada and the Killam Predoctoral Fellow award. She is also a highly rated instructor at the University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Management, Executive Education, and a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals.
If you have questions, please email Lauren Lee at lauren.lee@ubc.ca.
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