“I wish everyone would relax a little. Life ain’t a board meeting.”
– From the rap song,” Desire,” by Charles Aubrey Rogers
Jump to Mental health speakers for workplace programs: Emotionally Naked Workplace Wellness | The Emotionally Naked Truth About Suicide
Mental health speaker, Anne-Moss Rogers helps businesses create connection and belonging, the foundation of a thriving workplace mental health culture.
Audiences include managers, executives, employees, faculty, ERGs, HR and EAP groups, safety and DEI teams.
Because of the pandemic, mental health in the workplace has become a critical topic and more workplaces and corporations have recognized that the foundation of retention, productivity, performance, and profitability is emotionally healthy personnel and a company culture that promotes it. Mental health speakers for the workplace can help companies create that foundation of wellness.
Emotionally healthy employees perform better
When you invest in your most valuable asset–human beings and offer them the tools to manage difficult feelings and situations in a healthy and productive way, you are building a culture of workplace wellness and retention. So what are the benefits of hiring a mental health speaker for the workplace?
Hiring a mental health speaker for the workplace helps employees and leaders:
- take agency of their mental health
- navigate change
- find connection and belonging
- develop a work/life balance
- manage stress and overwhelm
- find healthy self-care strategies and utilize EAP resources
- manage personal and professional relationships in remote, in-person, and hybrid environments
- know how to support and find resources for a child or other struggling family members
Workplace Wellness Programs
Anne Moss Rogers is a mom who lost a child, Charles, to suicide and sold a digital marketing business to become one of the top mental health speakers in the workplace and for ERGs. She delivers and customizes the following programs:
- Emotionally Naked® Workplace Wellness
- The Emotionally® Naked Truth About Suicide
Emotionally Naked® Workplace Wellness
Get the example pdf for Emotionally Naked Workplace Wellness. The topic can be customized to meet your company goals.
Audiences: Workplaces including ERGs, managerial and leadership association summits/conferences. Can be geared toward managers, executives, employees, faculty, ERGs, HR and EAP groups, safety, and DEI teams.
Description: More workplaces and corporations have recognized that the foundation of retention, productivity, performance, and profitability is emotionally healthy personnel and a company culture that promotes it. That is why more progressive and profitable companies are focusing on the mission, “In order to achieve, you have to put wellness first.”
This upstream commitment to workplace wellness is the foundation of a prevention culture that emphasizes connection and belonging. Part of this initiative is building resilience and defining self-care strategies so employees have the tools and resources to manage anxiety, adversity, change, and future leadership positions.
Crisis response always costs more and uses up more resources and time. Any effort to avoid that is a plus for any company HR team, DEI, or safety leader.
Takeaways:
- How to build connection and belonging (e.g., with hybrid teams or among different age groups)
- Practical self-care strategies to manage stress and avoid conflict and burnout
- Coping skills for adversity
- How to use EAP and why time off is important for a brain reset
- Life events that make people more vulnerable to despair
- The skill that is the most important for workforce retention
About Anne Moss: This presentation is led by a mom and a mental health speaker and expert, Anne Moss Rogers, who tragically lost a child to suicide. After trying to find help for her once joyful son and rap artist, including wilderness therapy and therapeutic boarding school, Charles met heroin while struggling with anxiety and depression and took his life in 2015.
Testimonial: “The way that Anne Moss started her presentation talking about the real-life story really captivated and moved everyone that was in attendance. She showed a tremendous passion for the work that she is doing and you could hear it in every word that she spoke.”
Christopher Kurz, Commercial Relationship Manager – Fulton Bank
The Emotionally Naked® Truth About Suicide
Get the example pdf for The Emotionally Naked Truth About Suicide. The topic can be customized to meet your company goals.
Audience: This version is specifically tailored for workplaces on how to help oneself, a loved one, or a co-worker. It can be for employees, ERGs, employers, and managerial groups as well as associations.
Description: TEDx and emotionally naked storyteller, Anne Moss Rogers, has built a following on the subject of suicide, and the mental illnesses, addiction, and underlying risk factors that often trigger it. After trying to find help for her once joyful son and rap artist, including wilderness therapy and therapeutic boarding school, Charles met heroin while struggling with depression and he died by suicide in 2015.
This presentation dispels common myths about suicide and substance misuse, while delivering a message of hope, and empowering regular humans with the skills to help prevent this threat to life.
Takeaways:
- How to recognize the cryptic ways people cry for help
- How to respond, what to say/do (includes talking points)
- The importance of diversity and inclusion when it comes to mental health and suicide prevention
- Creating a suicide-safe environment (aka. means safety)
- Life events that can increase suicide risk
Themes include mental illness, addiction/substance misuse, grief, diversity and inclusion, safety planning, hope, and healing. Anne Moss is a certified suicide prevention trainer and follows safe messaging reporting guidelines on suicide.
Testimonial: “I’m proud of the Company for prioritizing mental health initiatives and enabling employees to attend. It helps our workplace as well as our communities to provide education and tools to DE employees.”
—Dominion Energy Employee
Thank you for your focus on employers and places of employment. Most people spend the biggest portion of their time working, with work colleagues and those cultures or environments are critical. Not only does investing in the mental health and well being of employees result in better outcomes and the bottom line but have the ability to create healthier families, relationships, and communities. I would love know more about integrating your work into the workplace.
I love that you said this: “Not only does investing in the mental health and well-being of employees result in better outcomes and the bottom line but have the ability to create healthier families, relationships, and communities.”
That is the key and the reason I want to get into more companies and fortunately, that is happening in 2023! And companies are now looking to book for both mental health month (May) and suicide prevention month (September). So that could be a place to start although I am in companies year-round now.
So I don’t know what your role is but I’ve had employee champions get me in, usually through the HR or Safety departments of workplaces. ERG groups (Employee Resource Groups) have also hired me to be a speaker. And often two groups will combine to bring me in such as an LGBTQ ERG and a professional women’s ERG. A lot of big companies have those. Smaller companies just bring me in to speak to their group. So it depends.
My presentations include helping oneself and a loved one. I get a lot of parents there asking about their kids and then young adults struggling with the overwhelm of real life which is really tough these days. Here are the pdfs.
Emotionally Naked Workplace Wellness
https://annemossrogers.com/wp-content/uploads/Emotionally-Naked-Workplace-Wellness.pdf
The Emotionally Naked Truth About Suicide
https://annemossrogers.com/wp-content/uploads/Emotionally-Naked-Truth-Suicide-Company.pdf
Thanks for asking and commenting, Tracey.