Create Meaningful Work and Life – Even in the Face of Hardships

Speaking

With over 15 years as a clinical psychologist — including frontline work in Afghanistan — I bring a field-tested lens to the burnout and resilience challenges facing today’s workforce. My talks are grounded in psychological science, lived leadership under extreme pressure, and original models like the COPES framework. I speak not from theory — but from the trenches of human performance, inside and outside the workplace. Author of Rethinking Employee Resilience, I challenge traditional approaches to burnout and share actionable strategies for building resilient teams and organizations.

Dan Pelton Speaking

Topics

  • The 10 Rules of Resilience
    Battle-tested and research-backed, these rules reveal what sustainable performance actually looks like.

 

  • Discover Your COPEs Profile: Team Resilience Starts with Self-Awareness
    My original framework for decoding how individuals — and teams — respond under pressure.

 

  • Burnout Isn’t Your Fault: How Broken Workplaces Create a Hidden Crisis
    Drawing on clinical insights, I reveal how burnout stems from systems, not shortcomings.

  • The Power of Nonconformity: How Challenging Assumptions Fuels Innovation in Mental Health
    I show how embracing nonconformity challenges existing assumptions, fosters creativity, and drives progress in mental health care.

 

  • Resilience as a Daily Habit: Embedding Mental Strength into the Workday
    Forget motivation hacks. This is about building enduring mental toughness through structure.

 

  • The Engagement Paradox: When High Performers Start to Burn Out
    A deep dive into why over-engagement is now a top risk factor for top talent.

 

  • Culture Is the Cure: 4 Levers That Actually Change Employee Well-being
    Not perks. Not posters. Just systems that work — rooted in psychological principles and field-tested insight.

 

  • Leadership Under Pressure: What to Do When Your Team Is Running on Empty
    Lessons from combat psychology and crisis leadership — applied to corporate life today.

 

  • Burnout Isn’t a Talent Problem. It’s a Design Flaw.
    We’ve pathologized burnout for too long. It’s time to re-engineer the way work works.

 

  • Leading Through Uncertainty: The New Rules of Stability and Trust
    In unstable times, leadership must become a human anchor. These are the tools that work.
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Dan shifts the conversation on burnout in the best possible way. It’s not about pushing people to be tougher—it’s about creating environments where resilience can actually take root. Practical, wise, and deeply human; loved it.

Hector Hughes, cofounder and CEO of Unplugged

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info@danpelton.com