Help Your Employees Cope
Book an educational and inspirational virtual training session with Dr. Bonior to support your employees during this difficult time.
Drawing from nearly two decades of professional experience, Dr. Bonior has developed entertaining and engaging presentations that lead to lessened burnout, increased resilience, and better motivation, relationships, productivity and purpose. Her sessions are informative, practical, and always well-received, and her expertise has landed her a regular role on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, where she helps a national audience find moments of peace in these stressful times. She also has hosted three popular courses for LinkedIn Learning, geared toward office professionals and covering various aspects of emotional and cognitive health.
Dr. Bonior has been hard at work during this pandemic to create virtual trainings and talks specifically designed to boost resilience and coping during COVID-19, and availability for her custom-designed presentations books quickly. Don’t see what you’re looking for below? Every month she designs presentations from scratch that are tailored to unique needs, from incorporating gender dynamics of working from home, to the trauma and grief of losing a coworker (as two examples of what she’s working on now.)
Think your budget won’t cover a keynote or training session? Inquire about booking a virtual fireside chat for your small group, or a town hall for your large group. This is an hour-long interactive and more casual conversation where Dr. Andrea takes questions and offers support— all with the same warmth, expertise, and wit of her prepared presentations, and double the spontaneity. Because there is no formal content preparation, this is the most budget-friendly of Dr. Bonior’s offerings. She is proud to provide this for a variety of organizations who are looking to provide mental health and wellness support to their members or employees but cannot commit to a training.
Contact her today to see how she can help your workplace or group.
“I heard NOTHING but positive reviews from the attendees at the event. From the "WOW--she was amazing!" to "Where did you find her? This was one of the best events I've attended," it was clear how much of an impact Andrea made at the event. ”
— Lena Jackman, Event planner for MD Employee Health and Wellness Symposium
Popular Topics for Today’s World
Coping with Uncertainty
Learn science-backed ways to better manage stress, disruption, and uncertainty. Using cognitive and health psychology, this training gives actionable and practical yet surprising tips to better manage stress, increase coping, and get relief from negative thought patterns. Attendees learn how to better recognize and handle the cognitive, emotional, and physical aspects of anxiety, get catastrophizing under control, label and escape toxic thought cycles, and look for a sense of meaning in difficult times— with a goal of becoming more present, productive and engaged even when life is not going as you’d choose.
Work-Life Balance When Working from Home
The popularity of this talk has skyrocketed in Summer 2020 as many working parents are in uncharted waters with children at home, struggling each day to cope with the chaos while they try to fill multiple roles simultaneously, with no end in sight. You may have seen Dr. Bonior’s smash-hit LinkedIn Learning course that helped bring support and relief to working parents nationwide. This talk draws on behavioral research, clinical techniques, and developmental psychology to help your employees successfully set several different types of boundaries, find balance between structure and flexibility, increase their patience and focus, recover more quickly from setbacks, manage their frustrations, and connect with a deeper sense of purpose— helping them rise to the challenge of these stressful times, increasing their calm and productivity.
Emotional health in A Virtual Workplace
Learn how to improve communication and authenticity when workplaces are turned upside-down with a scattered group of employees beholden to awkward Zoom sessions, splintered attention, and competing demands. This talk draws upon research about toxic versus healthy workplaces to bring employers and employees alike up to speed about the psychological ramifications of virtual work. Learn how to boost morale, increase team-building, and better support employee emotional health even when everyone is miles apart.
Improve Cognitive Flexibility
Branching off of her smash hit LinkedIn Learning course, this training takes the science of cognitive psychology and applies it in fun, experiential ways to teach your employees how to boost their cognitive flexibility. This particular skill— which includes the ability to incorporate multiple perspectives, adapt to shifting demands, and think creatively and critically while solving problems-- is increasingly crucial in today’s workplace, and the good news is, it can be built! In this engaging, popular training, Dr. Bonior teaches you how.
Adjusting to Life Back in the Office
The bookend to the early pandemic trainings Dr. Bonior gave on adjusting to working from home, this training gets real about the fact that many employees are struggling with—or downright mutinying against—a return to the office. Dr. Bonior has addressed this with both managers and employees, separately and together, using up-to-the-minute data about what has shown to be most helpful in making this transition as healthy as possible, some of it surprising.
Dealing with Difficult People
A newer offering, Dr. Bonior developed this presentation by request for a well-known organization that was struggling with burnout due to very specific inter-relational factors, and it’s been sought out several times since. Learn how to manage your internal reactions, change your mindset, and strategize for the best possible outcomes when dealing with various types of difficult co-workers, professional adversaries, and competitors. Effective communication, de-escalation and resolution strategies are explored in depth, along with the science of perspective-shifting and learning your own blind spots to be more resilient and less at risk of burnout and conflict in the workplace.