Dr. Susan Biali Haas

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• The Resilient Life: Reducing Stress and Burnout in Today’s Wild World

  With stresses in work and life at all-time highs, we need new ways of working and living. This session, based on stories, evidence-based knowledge, and strategies featured in Dr. Susan Biali Haas’ most recent book, The Resilient Life: Manage Stress, Prevent Burnout, and Strengthen Your Mental and Physical Health, will equip you and your people to fortify your minds, bodies, lives, and workplaces as we face today’s unprecedented challenges.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Understanding burnout: What it is, what it’s not, and what to do about it.
  • Fundamentals for building work-life boundaries that enhance both individual well-being and performance at work.
  • Simple, powerful tools to reduce stress, improve mental and physical resilience, and boost energy.
  • The foundational elements of a resilient life and how to leverage these to enhance your own resilience.
  • How to increase connection to purpose and meaning, for enhanced resilience and protection from burnout.
  • How to make and protect time for what matters most.

  Please note: All speaking topics are templates; titles and structure can be customized, and content can be mixed/matched from other topics. Each topic can also be expanded into a workshop and/or training session.

• Leave Burnout Behind: Strengthening Ourselves and Our Workplaces

  Burnout is a multi-faceted work-related phenomenon that has reached epidemic proportions. We see this picture everywhere: chronic exhaustion, decreased work and life satisfaction, and impaired performance.

  This session will equip and inspire audiences to work and live differently. With her extensive evidence-based knowledge of organizational and workplace wellness, physical and mental health, behavioural psychology, and coaching principles, Dr. Susan Biali Haas shares key skills to help people navigate the ups and downs and endless stresses and strains of modern work and life.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Understanding burnout: What it is, what it’s not, and what to do about it.
  • The six fundamental drivers of burnout at work (and how to leverage these to strengthen and protect yourself and your colleagues).
  • Work-life boundary strategies to simultaneously increase personal well-being and workplace performance.
  • Decrease your stress and increase your impact by reducing the impact of high workloads.
  • How to manage common personality traits that create unnecessary stress.
  • Simple lifestyle strategies that prevent and reduce symptoms of burnout.
  • Mind-body medicine tools: Quick, easy, and proven techniques to reduce stress, enhance brain performance, and increase resilience.
  • A framework to prioritize (and find time for) what matters most in work and life.

  Please note: All speaking topics are templates; titles and structure can be customized, and content can be mixed/matched from other topics. Each topic can also be expanded into a workshop and/or training session.

• Resilient Leadership: Leverage Stress, Prevent Burnout, and Maximize Your Impact

  The old way isn’t working anymore. We need new ways of leading, that enable us to make our highest impact and contribution without paying as high a price. But we don’t need to sacrifice success. We can live and lead in a new way that fuels sustainable success, enriches workplace culture, and increases well-being, both on an individual and team level.

  In this inspiring keynote, filled with evidence-based insights and tools, Dr. Susan Biali Haas details the key factors that promote optimal resilience, mental well-being, and impact for leaders. Audiences will gain a deeper understanding of the elements that create a thriving workplace and be equipped with actionable goals and strategies to benefit you, your life, and your people.

  Key takeaways include:

  • The cardinal signs and symptoms of burnout you may notice in yourself or your people.
  • Organizational and team-related drivers of chronic stress and burnout (and their antidotes).
  • Strategies to decrease overwhelm from high workloads and increase time for strategic planning, thinking, and other essential tasks unique to leaders.
  • Boundary management strategies for leaders that improve personal well-being and work performance.
  • Identification and management of personality traits common to leaders that increase vulnerability to stress and burnout.
  • A paradigm-shifting perspective on self-care as a leadership discipline, enhancing performance and driving sustainable success.
  • Neuroscience-based practices that increase mental and physical resilience and energy.
  • A strategic framework to identify and protect key priorities in work and life.

  Please note: All speaking topics are templates; titles and structure can be customized, and content can be mixed/matched from other topics. Each topic can also be expanded into a workshop and/or training session.

• Provider Burnout: Lived Experience, Self-Care, and Real Solutions

  As a physician who experienced severe burnout, depression, and trauma-related stress early in her training and continued to navigate challenges through two decades of frontline work in primary care, Dr. Susan Biali Haas brings a deep range of lived experience to the stage.

  This very personal presentation combines evocative storytelling with evidence-based practical solutions for provider burnout and well-being in today’s complex healthcare contexts. Biali Haas tailors the content to the unique needs and experiences of each audience, whether your group is composed of physicians or a blend of primary care providers, nurses, mental health professionals, family services providers, or any other type of healthcare-focused group.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Insights from Biali Haas’ personal story of provider burnout and mental health challenges.
  • Increased awareness of the extent and nature of provider burnout in healthcare.
  • How to recognize and overcome burnout and other mental health concerns in a healthcare context (can be from an individual or organizational perspective, or both).
  • Understanding, recognizing, and acknowledging the impact of traumatic experiences and secondary trauma.
  • A shift from mental health-related stigma to action, compassion, inclusion, and support.
  • The unique importance of prioritizing well-being for healthcare professionals.
  • How to reclaim yourself and your life, for the benefit of yourself, your loved ones, and your patients.

  Please note: All speaking topics are templates; titles and structure can be customized, and content can be mixed/matched from other topics. Each topic can also be expanded into a workshop and/or training session.

• Stress Resilience for High Performers: Accelerate Recovery, Increase Energy, and Maximize Brain Health

  We have entered a new era in the science of human performance. Breakthroughs in neuroscience, physiology, epigenetics, and psychology highlight the importance of a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of stress. Yes, stress can be toxic, but it’s also a powerful source of change, innovation, achievement, and human thriving.

  Dr. Susan Biali Haas will share the latest evidence-based insights with your group, woven into inspiring stories that illustrate the applied power of new tools, skills, and strategies.

  Key takeaways include:

  • How to leverage the positive power of stress and minimize the impact of toxic stress.
  • Strategies for cellular recovery and deep rest within a busy life.
  • How to shift your mindset around stress and anxiety to enhance performance and improve outcomes.
  • The simple daily choices that can increase or decrease brain health.
  • Essential practices to optimize executive function, creativity, and decision making.
  • A brain-training technique to help you overcome and succeed at your biggest challenges.
  • Strategies to create lifelong, enduring cognitive performance.

  Please note: All speaking topics are templates; titles and structure can be customized, and content can be mixed/matched from other topics. Each topic can also be expanded into a workshop and/or training session.

• Mindful Leadership: Maximize Engagement and Thrive in Work and Life

  Mindfulness is most purely defined as a state of being conscious or aware. To be maximally effective, a mindful leader must cultivate deep awareness of how to lead themselves, in addition to leading their people.

  Drawing from almost three decades of study in the areas of health and wellness, positive psychology, personal development, and workplace well-being, Dr. Susan Biali Haas will teach your leaders how to harness the power of awareness across the spectrum of their personal and professional lives. The goal: a sustainable shift in perspective, leading to consistent actions that promote long term well-being, resilience, and performance in your leaders and their teams.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Burnout: The definition, signs, symptoms, and risk factors.
  • Simple work-related strategies to increase resilience and engagement.
  • Self-care as a key discipline for leaders.
  • How to enhance productivity by maximizing sleep quality.
  • Exercise for optimal brain health, mental health, and workplace engagement.
  • Mindfulness and mind-body medicine: Understanding the relaxation response.
  • Evidence-based mindful relaxation techniques to reduce stress/heal your DNA.
  • Work/life balance: How to find time where there is none and prioritizing what matters.

  Please note: All speaking topics are templates; titles and structure can be customized, and content can be mixed/matched from other topics. Each topic can also be expanded into a workshop and/or training session.

• Healthy and Happy: Prevent Burnout and Depression, Build Better Mental Health

  Dr. Susan Biali Haas is uniquely equipped to help audiences understand and improve their mental health. She has suffered from and conquered depression, anxiety, trauma, and burnout; diagnosed and treated a long list of medical patients; provided virtual medical psychotherapy to those suffering during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic; and studied principles of positive psychology, nutritional psychiatry, and brain health for over two decades. Haas’ Psychology Today blog has over 11 million views, and she has been interviewed by media across North America about the roots of depression and drug-free ways to create better mental health.

  In this informative keynote, audiences will learn:

  • Biali Haas’ personal lived experience with depression, burnout, and trauma.
  • The importance of removing stigma around mental health challenges.
  • How to define mental wellness and understand key factors that build this essential strength.
  • How to spot early warning signs of depression in themselves and their colleagues.
  • Mental and physical symptoms of anxiety.
  • Recognizing problematic anxiety vs. normal worrying.
  • Tips for approaching and helping a colleague who is struggling.
  • Workplace mental health strategies that work.
  • Scientifically proven, drug-free strategies that boost and stabilize mood.
  • Tools and fresh perspectives to find more meaning and joy in work and life.

  Please note: All speaking topics are templates; titles and structure can be customized, and content can be mixed/matched from other topics. Each topic can also be expanded into a workshop and/or training session.

• Thrive: Seven Keys to a Healthier, More Meaningful, and Impactful Life

  Learn to make key daily choices that result in a healthier, more meaningful, sustainable life.  The result: your people will bring more energy, enthusiasm, and impact to everything they do.

  In this invigorating and informative presentation, Dr. Susan Biali Haas highlights the fundamental, evidence-based choices that help you shape a vibrant, healthier life that makes a difference.

  Key takeaways include:

  • How to understand and protect yourself from burnout (signs, symptoms, and risk factors).
  • Simple tips to enhance the quality and quantity of your sleep.
  • Strategic daily food choices that power maximal brain performance and energy.
  • Two ways to leverage movement to boost your brain and mood and reduce burnout.
  • Maximize the benefits from your most important relationships.
  • Incorporating joy in specific ways to positively rewire your brain.
  • How to create time for what matters most.

  Please note: All speaking topics are templates; titles and structure can be customized, and content can be mixed/matched from other topics. Each topic can also be expanded into a workshop and/or training session.