Stéphane Grenier

Providing a Non-Clinical Prescription for a New Mental Health Dialogue

Nancy's Note:

“Stéphane’s commitment to bettering humanity while addressing mental health issues is ground-breaking, especially for those in the workforce and those suffering from PTSD. His work is meaningful, honorable and so desperately needed. I’m humbled to include him on my roster.”

Stéphane Grenier

Providing a Non-Clinical Prescription for a New Mental Health Dialogue

Nancy’s Note
“Stéphane’s commitment to bettering humanity while addressing mental health issues is ground-breaking, especially for those in the workforce and those suffering from PTSD. His work is meaningful, honorable and so desperately needed. I’m humbled to include him on my roster.”

Stéphane Grenier

Providing a Non-Clinical Prescription for a New Mental Health Dialogue

Nancy’s Note
“Stéphane’s commitment to bettering humanity while addressing mental health issues is ground-breaking, especially for those in the workforce and those suffering from PTSD. His work is meaningful, honorable and so desperately needed. I’m humbled to include him on my roster.”

Expertise

Mental Health, Workforce, Adversity, Resilience, Wellness, Self-Care, Military

Travels From

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Speaking Style

Compassionate, Thought-provoking, Impactful

About Stéphane...

An ardent mental health ally, this former officer in the Canadian military developed non-clinical interventions to compliment traditional methods, particularly for the workforce.

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Presentation Topics

In today’s modern workplace, mental health problems have become the leading cause of disability claims, accounting for 70% of workplace disability management costs in Canada. In the United State, 1 in 4 adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.

Stéphane knows the toll mental health problems can take on individuals and workplaces firsthand. Traditionally, mental health difficulties in the workplace have been principally viewed through two lenses: the performance lens and the clinical one. Clinicians treat symptoms, and leaders manage behaviors.

Blending lived accounts, riveting corporate case studies, leading-edge research and passionate arguments that the status quo is no longer acceptable in the field of workplace mental health, Stéphane makes us ask ourselves, how did we miss the obvious? How did we miss our people?

Anchored in decades of experience in improving the way large, public- and private- sector organizations support their employees, Grenier provides his audiences with pragmatic advice on how to support workplaces in developing corporate cultures of open, non-stigmatizing approaches to mental health and well-being.

Longer engagements are also available, where the following learning objectives can be achieved through a workshop-style session:

  • Develop a new non-clinical lens to perceive mental health problems
  • Understand the importance of social support as a determinant of mental health
  • Redefine and challenge entrenched paradigms regarding workplace mental health
  • Understand how organizational culture impacts well-being
  • Become familiar with innovative methods to measure and shape workplace culture
  • Understand the building blocks of a successful peer support program
  • Discover how peer support acts as a catalyst for organizational wellness
  • Measure your organization’s readiness for a peer support program
  • Become familiar with the nationally endorsed Standards of Practice for peer support
  • Conduct a preliminary assessment of your workplace against the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace

This virtual workshop includes 2.5 hours of highly interactive strategy-building conversations. It was developed to help senior leaders demystify the complexity of mental health strategies into tangible, meaningful thinking. Participants will leave empowered to make informed decisions when shaping the mental health culture of their organizations.

Canada’s Prime Minister’s words comparing the COVID-19 pandemic to war resonated deeply with Stéphane Grenier. In late March 2020, Justin Trudeau called on all Canadians to serve their country by saying “your duty is to listen, and you can serve by staying home”.  Words that should resonate with all citizens, regardless the country they live in.

As a veteran of the Canadian military who served in Rwanda, Afghanistan, Haiti, Kuwait, and Cambodia, to name a few, Grenier reflected on what the Prime Minister said, and concluded that this pandemic is in many ways more challenging for others then going to war can be for a career soldier.

Grenier is passionate about sharing the lessons he learned through his 29-year military career, as well his 20 years working in the mental health space. Aligning these two diverse experiences and drawing from today’s latest evidence and research, he shares grounded advice, tips, and tools to help audiences gain perspective, increase their ability to cope as this crisis continues, and, more importantly, get back to normal, whatever normal looks like, post-pandemic.

Audiences will learn:

  • Resilience in the face of adversity and how it is different from self-care.
  • Managing the unmanageable and surviving the crisis.
  • Supporting a colleague who is struggling.
  • Going home — returning to normal or to the new normal.

This can be a virtual presentation, 45-60 minutes, and includes a 30-minute keynote along with an interactive Q&A.

 

It is also available as a workshop, running 90-120 minutes depending on your needs.

 

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