Dr. Bill Howatt

Organizations who want to drive the DEI agenda, retain and attract top talent, and create an environment where employees want to perform to their potential require an engaged workforce.

Without psychological safety in the workplace there is no possibility for inclusion, and without inclusion,there is no opportunity for diversity, and equality.

An estimated 60% of the workforce is stuck in a chronic state of disengagement that negatively impacts their employee experience, productivity, and mental health. When stress, uncertainty, or fear occupy the mind, most employees have never been trained to understand and notice how it is impacting their engagement or they may have never been supported in the workplace and told how to focus on their self care.

In this keynote, Dr. Bill, will provide clarity on what mental fitness practices can create resilient and thriving cultures. He explains how fear, adversity load, environment is contributing to workforce languishing and being disengage. He will provide a practical framework for how both employers and employee can take advantage of mental fitness practices to drive employee engagement and to create a positive experience where all employees feel a sense of belonging. Like a physical fitness plan the mental fitness practice takes intention, effort and time to create the desirable habits for a workforce to flourish.
Learning Objectives:

• Discover how and why people experience long periods of disengagement!
• Understand how stress, mental health (e.g., behavioral health), and mental illness are linked.
• Develop a mental fitness plan that promotes engagement and interpersonal self care.

80% of the employee experience can be directly attributed to the leader-employee relationship.

Creating psychological safe and inclusive workplaces is top-of-mind for many boards, CEOs, and senior leaders because we now know a workers’ experience in the workplace will have a direct impact on predicting their retention, attraction, disability costs, productivity, sustainability, and quality of life.

The future of work suggests a critical success factor for employers’ sustainability will be people
management and creating a psychologically safe work environment. Leaders must discover it is not always WHAT they are doing that matter the most it is HOW they are doing it.

In this keynote, Bill shares a short cut for HOW to become a psychological safe leader. He provides leaders with the four core competencies that must be in place to be successful as a psychological safe leader and he offers a coaching tool for the kind of key performance behaviours that can create the habits required to facilitate a psychological safe and inclusive workplace.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand workplace psychological health and safety and the leader’s role.
• Explore four core competencies and KPBs that facilitate psychologically safe leadership.
• Discover how leaders can move towards psychologically safe leadership, one interaction at a
  time.