Educate, Motivate, & Empower With Top Mental Health Speaker Mike Veny
➡ Known for Making Authentic Connections & Revealing Powerful, Actionable Strategies for Positive Change
➡ Multiple Award Winner – Innovation & Excellence Award from Corporate LiveWire, Leader of Mental Health Awareness Award from NAMI New York State, & More
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Make Mental Health a Priority … & Watch Your Employees & Business Thrive!
The latest statistics indicate that one out of every four adults will experience a mental health disorder in any given year. (Johns Hopkins Medicine) That means there are a lot of people out there who are struggling at any given time. And their struggles aren’t just negatively impacting their own lives but also the lives of those around them, as well as the productivity of the businesses where they work.
Mike Veny has built a successful career as a mental health speaker by delivering learning experiences that empower his audiences to take actionable steps to change their lives and work environments. He’s delivered presentations to Fortune 500 companies, healthcare providers, and educators, including Microsoft, CVS Health, T-Mobile, Heineken, Salesforce, Keurig Dr. Pepper, and The Wounded Warrior Project.
His dynamic presentations inspire and motivate … educate and empower … and send workplace productivity soaring!
Why choose Mike Veny as your mental health speaker?
Mike is the rare mental health speaker who has both extensive firsthand knowledge of the issue AND a unique ability to keep his audience engaged while delivering strategies that drive real, lasting results. With Mike you get:
- Dynamic Presentations
As someone who has personally faced and overcome significant mental health challenges, Mike brings unparalleled authenticity to every presentation. His vulnerability fosters trust, and his unique insights empower audiences to better their mental health and change their life circumstances. - Enlightening Content
Mike draws upon a lifetime of expertise in the mental health space. He also customizes every keynote to resonate deeply with the audience he is addressing. From reducing workplace stress to promoting suicide awareness, he meets your team where they are and provides tools and strategies they can use immediately. - Audience Engagement
Mike combines humor, heart, and hard-hitting truths to captivate his audiences. He knows how to keep the room engaged and entertained while delivering strategies that make change possible. Attendees emerge feeling glad that they took time from their busy day to hear Mike’s one-of-a-kind insights. - Individual & Organizational Benefits
Individuals learn how to proactive steps toward better mental health. They discover how to develop healthier habits and make lifestyle choices that contribute to improved mental and emotional resilience. Organizations then benefit from improved employee mental health by seeing reduced absenteeism, improved engagement, and enhanced performance.
Presentations on Today’s Hottest Mental Health Topics
Mike has become one of today’s most in-demand mental health keynote speakers by not shying away from any of the topics that are most affecting people today.
1. Mental Health in the Workplace
Discover how to create a culture that prioritizes mental wellness, reduces burnout, and fosters resilience. Mike’s strategies are ideal for HR leaders, managers, and executives seeking to improve workplace morale and productivity.
2. Suicide Awareness and Prevention
Suicide prevention is a critical issue for workplaces and communities. As one of the leading suicide awareness speakers, Mike handles this sensitive topic with care, compassion, and actionable insights to promote awareness and support.
3. Overcoming Stress and Burnout
Help your team regain their energy and focus with proven strategies to combat stress and build lasting resilience. Mike’s practical tips inspire immediate changes that benefit both individuals and teams.
4. Leadership and Mental Health
Great leaders understand the importance of mental health in achieving organizational success. Mike teaches leaders how to model mental wellness, build trust, and create supportive environments.
Bang the Drum for Mental Health!
When he was younger, Mike was expelled from several schools, attempted suicide, and spent time in psychiatric hospitals for extended periods of time. One of the things that rescued him and put him on the path to mental wellness was … drumming! As an adult, Mike spent many years facilitating drum workshops for children with disabilities – and he still often uses drums in his presentations to grab the audience’s attention, entertain them, and keep them motivated to change.
Book Mike NowMore About Mike Veny & Why You Need Him for Your Next Event
Few things can accelerate personal and professional growth like emotional wellness. When employees understand the importance of good mental health and have the strategies to pursue it, they see their mental and physical health and their work productivity improve. They feel more balanced, energized, and motivated to perform at their best.
Mike excels at getting his audience to embrace the importance of good mental health. That’s why he won Corporate LiveWire’s 2022, 2023, & 2024 Innovation & Excellence Award for his work as a Certified Corporate Wellness Specialist® and the NAMI New York State’s 2023 Leader of Mental Health Awareness Award. He was also a PM360 ELITE Award Winner, which recognized him as one of the 100 most influential people in the healthcare industry for his work with patient advocacy.
Mike is a real game-changer when it comes to promoting mental health … and if you act now, you can schedule him to speak to your employees or members. But you must hurry, Mike’s schedule fills fast!
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Programs
Mike customizes each presentation to fit the goals and needs of your event, but at the heart of every topic is the gift of emotional wellness. The combination of his lived experience and educational content will make your event memorable.
Keynote
Transforming Stigma® Into Strength
During the next year, one in four people will experience a mental health challenge, and 1.5 million people will attempt to die by suicide. The stigma surrounding mental health is a significant barrier to seeking treatment and receiving needed help. Here’s a proven solution: Transforming Stigma®. This high-energy keynote presentation, based on Mike Veny’s bestselling book, Transforming Stigma: How To Become A Mental Wellness Superhero, performs double duty as an educational experience and entertainment for your audience. This presentation can be customized for workplace and classroom environments.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand how stigma keeps people from asking for help.
- Learn self-care strategies to avoid burnout, build resilience, and diminish feelings of shame.
- Determine how to engage in productive conversations.
Empower people who are struggling by cultivating a sense of belonging.
Keynote
How To Find Inner Peace In Times Of Uncertainty
There has never been a more important time in history to focus on your mental wellness. Finding inner peace is crucial to your health and safety. This important presentation will revitalize you. First and foremost, you will learn to shield yourself from stress. Next, you will learn to put your mind at ease and reduce your anxiety. Last but not least, you will learn to take advantage of golden opportunities to cope with loneliness and grief. Don’t miss this unique opportunity.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify the importance of prioritizing stress management.
- Identify three simple techniques to handle stress in minutes.
- Practice three exercises to relieve anxiety and manage obsessive thinking.
- Identify three inspiring strategies to cope with loneliness and grief.
Training
Fill Your Cup: Emotional Wellness For Exhausted Educators
You’ve heard the saying: You cannot pour from an empty cup. As an educator, your cup may be empty, or close to it. After pouring yourself into your job and your students, there is often little left in that cup for you, your family, and others. It may have led you to question your career choice and possibly even your true passion and purpose in life. Filling your cup can be challenging, but it can be done. This presentation will provide educators with tools and strategies for protecting and promoting their emotional wellness while supporting the wellbeing of their students. First, you will learn how to let go of worry and get control of your time. Next, you will learn how to take care of yourself. Finally, you will learn strategies for supporting your students’ emotional wellness.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify strategies for spending your time and energy efficiently, productively, and peacefully.
- Identify strategies for managing stress and preventing burnout.
- Identify strategies for supporting students’ emotional wellness, including having conversations about mental health.
Workshop
Thriving Through Change: Building Resilience and Preventing Burnout with Self-Care
There has never been a more critical time to focus on your mental wellness and resilience. Self-care might seem daunting or trivial, but it is essential to differentiate it from mere escape activities. During this interactive workshop or breakout session, you will explore what self-care truly is, identify practical self-care strategies, and learn how these can help you build resilience, combat burnout, and maintain overall wellness—especially amidst change.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify the importance of prioritizing stress management.
- Identify three simple techniques to handle stress in minutes.
- Practice three exercises to relieve anxiety and manage obsessive thinking.
- Identify three inspiring strategies to cope with loneliness and grief.
Workshop
Unleash Your Groove® Drumming Workshop: Belonging and Team Building
This live and interactive program is designed exclusively as a team-building workshop for employees. Through guidelines that support respect for each other, participants quickly learn to embrace a sense of belonging and teamwork. Engagement often spells the difference between success and failure in corporate team-building events, and this program excels at uniting a room full of people with varying personalities, interests, and skills. Unleash Your Groove® focuses on using corporate drumming events to achieve this cohesion. While employees collaborate during the activities and games, they also learn valuable lessons in leadership. By utilizing drums, the workshop addresses crucial topics such as building an environment of trust, handling confrontation, communication, the importance of listening, and cooperation. Moreover, the games and activities are designed to help groups practice dealing with change, enhancing their adaptability in the workplace. From the outset, participants put these skills into practice, fostering a strong sense of belonging and an effective, cohesive team dynamic.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Cultivate a welcoming culture that fosters belonging through team building.
- Develop intentional connections with others to enhance belonging.
- Identify teamwork strategies to achieve a larger vision and deal with change.
What clients are saying
"Such talent!"
Employee
"Thank you for coming to speak with us! I truly enjoyed your candor. Within the Military ERG we have spoken about mental well-being, but have approached it in almost a reversed, slightly clinical way. During and after your talk people have reached out to help get involved and drive mental well-being not only in the US, but in our international chapters. We knew having you speak would be meaningful to those that participated, we just had no idea that the impact would be this large. I hope we can keep the momentum going that you sparked. "
Employee
"Mike’s virtual presentation went AMAZING! We had all positive feedback from internal employees. Feedback from the audience included ‘This is such a great talk and the answers are really honest and helpful. Thank you.’ and ‘Excellent session! Feeling grateful and inspired!’ Shortly after Mike’s session, employees had an open discussion about their own mental health experiences. It was great. We hope to bring Mike back in the future!"
Melanie Kiely
"Had the privilege & honor to listen to Mike Veny sharing his wisdom and experience concerning mental health. Mike, you are such a beacon of light for so many suffering in silence. Keep shining your amazing powerful light. Such talent!"
A look at Mike Veny's books
Transforming Stigma
How to Become a Mental Wellness Superhero
Are you or a loved one struggling with mental health challenges? Do you feel like you are silently suffering in silence due to shame about your situation? Are you at a loss trying to figure out what to do or how to get help? Do you feel like this is getting in the way of your happiness and success? It's time for you to begin Transforming Stigma®.
Transforming Stigma Workbook
How to Become a Mental Wellness Superhero
This workbook allows you to go further into your journey of overcoming the Stigma Cycle. While it can be used alone, it’s best when paired with Transforming Stigma: How to Become a Mental Wellness Superhero. Perfect to use in both group settings or individually, this workbook walks you through real-life scenarios and questions to help you gain a deeper understanding of how the stigma works and ways that you can transform it in your own life as well as help others.
Connectivity & Conversations
A Workplace Mental Health Course
Practical tips and takeaways on how to create a work culture that facilitates healthy discussion around employees' mental health and wellbeing. Mental health is an issue in every workplace. Burnout and mental health challenges lead to high turnover rates, lower productivity, and increased healthcare costs.
Fill Your Cup
The Exhausted Educator’s Guide to Emotional Wellness
Fill Your Cup: The Exhausted Educator's Guide To Emotional Wellness by Mike Veny is a reflective journal and informative guidebook, formatted to carry educators step-by-step as they learn how to support their own and their students’ emotional well-being in the face of an evolving high-stress school environment. This course will motivate educators and help them rekindle their passion for teaching. Equipped with the right tools, they will be able to help students, not just educationally but mentally.
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Good Mental Health is Good Business!
As Sheana Abrahams, Health & Wellness Head of GetSmarter, recently said, “Running a business with unhealthy and unhappy employees is like trying to drive a car with a bad engine. It may eventually get you where you want to go, but the trip will be difficult, and you’ll waste a lot of time and resources.”
Let Mike show your employees how to tackle mental health challenges with confidence. They are sure to be entertained, informed, and inspired. Don’t let poor mental health affect your employees and your productivity. Book one of the top mental health keynote speakers today and experience the difference Mike Veny can make.
More client testimonials
"You made a real impact on the lives of so many educators."
Karen Barnes
"Thank you so much for your inspirational presentation yesterday! You made a real impact on the lives of so many educators. Additionally, I would love to have you return next year to present for our summit."
Cat Kennedy
"Mike it was an honor for us to be in your company, you had such an impact. Thank you so much for helping us raise awareness of the stigma associated with mental health & how to combat it, together."
Amanda Graff
"Mike was absolutely amazing at our event! There are not words enough to describe how energized and engaged my crew was and I am so grateful to him for sharing his wonderful outlook with our team."
Getting Mike to Speak at Your Event is as Easy as 1, 2, 3!
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Sign the contract and promote your event
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Continuing Education Credit
Mike Veny, Inc. is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). In addition, Mike Veny, Inc. complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, Mike Veny, Inc. is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.
The organization is also recognized by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® and is a Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI) Accredited Provider.
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