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Since early 2020, we have collectively moved through a global health crisis with rippling emotional, physical, and cognitive impacts that forever changed the way we work, play, lead, love, parent, and partner.
In 2021, 75% of American workers reported experiencing at least one symptom of a mental health condition (up from 59% in 2019) a statistic resulting directly from the trauma caused during the pandemic. With numbers like these, it’s imperative we stop viewing employee mental health as an individual issue, and instead address it as a retention problem for employers to solve collaboratively with employees. Achieving a solution requires leaders to understand the impact varying workplace dimensions have on employee mental health and, subsequently, how mental health influences employee engagement and attrition. From a bottom-line perspective, the business case for prioritizing mental health in the workplace is clear, but, for many, the path forward feels hazy.
By engaging in this experiential talk, individual contributors and people leaders will learn how to cultivate a team culture that increases engagement and retention by eliminating practices that derail employee mental health and enact a new toolkit of strategies to improve employee wellbeing and satisfaction in the workplace.
Join us to learn how to:
1. Identify the workplace factors that impact employee mental health.
2. Learn three new leadership practices that prioritize employee mental health to increase engagement and retention.
3. Cultivate an environment that elevates employee wellbeing to reduce attrition.
Our keynote presenter is Katie O'Malley, a Career Coach and Workplace Consultant with fifteen (15) years of professional experience serving the nonprofit, corporate and education sectors. Across these workplaces, Katie noticed her strengths and values consistently steered her toward the support and development of others. In 2012, Katie translated this observation into action, earning a Master's Degree in Counseling and Board Certification in Coaching.
Since 2018, Katie has worked alongside more than 200 clients as the Founder and Principal Coach of (en)Courage Coaching. Founded with the noble mission of providing exceptional, financially accessible coaching services to Chicago area professionals, (en)Courage Coaching has grown to support individuals and businesses from coast to coast, as well as in the United Kingdom.
Coaching clients in the design of authentic career paths, effective leadership practices, and courageous workplace cultures is in the DNA of (en)Courage Coaching. By leveraging a mix of evidence-based practices from the fields of counseling, organizational development, and leadership education, Katie equips her clients with customized strategies to meet their individual needs and aspirational goals. Prior to opening the doors of (en)Courage Coaching, Katie served as a leadership coach and course instructor to MBA and graduate students at Chicago Booth, The University of Texas at Austin, and DePaul University.
Recently featured in Fast Company and Thrive Global, Katie's research and writing supports both sides of the workplace equation, encouraging employers and employees to remember, "We're all in this work-thing together.
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