Mental Health Speaker

Joyce Marter, LCPC, CSP and Jason Marotzke, M.Ed. Experienced Mental Health Speakers for Your Workplace

“Did you know? 77% of employers report an increase in workforce mental health needs,” says Business Group on Health’s 2024 Health Care Strategy Survey.

Give Your Employees the Tools They Need To Navigate Rapid Changes in the Workplace

Employees are overwhelmed by chronic transition and uncertainty and under-equipped to successfully manage the demands of life and work. Mental health concerns used to be a private and personal matter, and many of us suffered in silent shame.

The challenges of recent years have shed light on mental health, and workplaces have recognized they need to support the mental health of employees and cultivate a culture of psychological safety to retain their greatest asset. With hybrid and remote working models, the separation between work and home has disappeared. Mental health has moved from a private issue to a core component of the success of any business across the industry.

According to the World Health Organization, “Depression and anxiety cost the global economy $1 trillion each year, predominantly from reduced productivity.”


Emotional, social, and communication skills are not taught in our primary, secondary or higher education. The result is that employees lack the skills to succeed in the current climate. Employees need to be taught how to take care of themselves and others amid chaos.

Feelings that may come up for your employees about their workplace include:

  • Fear of losing their job
  • Fear of more
  • Feelings of inadequacy
  • Frustration
  • Irritability and Defensiveness
  • Overwhelm with uncertainty and change
  • Resistance to change
  • Stress, Depression, and Anxiety
  • Worsened mental health or substance misuse
  • Conflict between leadership/staff
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Presentations & Topics: 

  • Mental Health, AI & Mental Health
  • Burnout, Psychological Safety
  • Healthy Workplace Culture
  • Work-Life Harmony, Financial Wellness
  • Mindfulness & EQ, Communication
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Resilience, Leadership
  • Motivational, Anti-Harassment
  • Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

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CORPORATE PRESENTATIONS AND TOPICS

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Joyce Marter and Jason Marotzke
Mental Health Speakers, Joyce Marter and Jason Marotzke

Book Joyce Marter or Jason Marotzke for Your Next Mental Health Speaking Event

With mental health challenges on the rise, now is the time to schedule an experienced mental health speaker to help you support your employees in a changing world and work environment. You can hire Joyce Marter and Jason Marotzke together or individually for your next speaking event.

General Presentation Information:

  • All presentations can be conducted virtually or in person.
  • Presentations can be altered to fit the specific needs of your audience, including combining 2-3 presentations. 
  • Presentations are flexible and can be adapted from one hour to six hours, depending on your needs.
  • All presentations include a unique, dedicated landing page with downloadable copies of the slides, handouts, articles, and resources so attendees leave with a toolbox of new knowledge and skills. 
  • Hybrid presentations and recordings are welcome. 
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You Can Expect: 

  • Psychological safety in the workplace where employees feel comfortable sharing with management any personal and professional challenges they are facing with the intention of collaborating to provide support for the employee and best outcomes for the workplace
  • Greater utilization of the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other mental health benefits or resources provided by the workplace
  • Loyalty to the workplace for demonstrating care and concern about employee wellness
  • Improvements in company culture include greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, empathy, and effective communication and conflict resolution skills. 
  • Conscious leadership with a shared vision and sense of meaning and purpose for staff. 
  • A compassionate and collaborative workplace environment. 
  • Happier, healthier, more effective, invested, and motivated employees. 

Top Mental Health Speaker for the Workplace, Joyce Marter

Expertise: 

  • 25+ years experience as a licensed mental health professional
  • 25+ years experience as an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) trainer with extensive knowledge of HR and employee law and experience in working with hundreds of diverse workplaces across industries
  • 25+ years experience as a corporate trainer and workplace wellness speaker
  • 15+ years experience as a keynote speaker
  • Seasoned speaker averaging 50+ presentations per year
  • 4 Board Presidencies in the Counseling Profession
  • Founder and CEO of Urban Balance, a multimillion-dollar mental health company Marter started in 2004 and grew to over 100 employees in six locations and three states before making a strategic sale and exit in 2017. 
  • Joyce is an internationally published author and is available for book sales and signings, to level-up your event

Joyce Marter’s Signature Presentations

Ready to lead with more joy, purpose, and impact—without burning out? It’s time for a new kind of revolution.

In this inspiring and energizing keynote, acclaimed psychotherapist and entrepreneur Joyce Marter invites you to join The Infusion Revolution—a bold movement to lead and live with both strength and soul. In the midst of ā€œThe Great Exhaustion,ā€ Joyce offers a refreshing, science-backed path forward: one where success doesn’t mean sacrifice, and where ambition is fueled by empathy, resilience, and heart.

Drawing from 25 years of counseling thousands of clients, Joyce shares 12 powerful pillars of holistic success—six rooted in power (like abundance, vision, and resilience) and six in heart (like presence, compassion, and self-love). With humor, warmth, and deeply relatable stories, she’ll help you reframe burnout as a wake-up call and step into your next chapter with clarity and courage.

You’ll walk away ready to:

  • Reframe burnout as a powerful call to lead with authenticity and heart
  • Become unstuck by tapping into your personal power and purpose
  • Balance ambition with compassion to boost well-being and performance
  • Inspire a culture of empathy, trust, and sustainable success

This unforgettable session wraps with a short guided meditation to recharge your spirit—and ignite your next-level leadership.

What if the key to unlock financial success is your mindset? In this innovative and energizing keynote, Joyce Marter unpacks the powerful connection between mental health and financial wealth. With warmth, wit, and real-world examples, she guides audiences through the emotional undercurrents of money anxiety, financial trauma, subconscious biases, and the boundaries we often fail to set—both at work and at home.

This engaging session sheds light on the thoughts and beliefs that quietly drive our financial decisions and offers practical strategies to shift from scarcity to abundance, fear to confidence, and helplessness to empowerment.

Attendees will leave with a Financial Mindset Toolkit to:

  • Identify and release limiting beliefs about money
  • Heal from financial trauma and reduce money-related stress
  • Understand common money biases that drive self-sabotage
  • Set healthy financial boundaries personally and professionally
  • Cultivate an abundance mindset rooted in clarity, self-worth, and resilience

Fresh, relatable, and empowering—this talk will forever change the way your audience thinks about money..​s.

What sets truly successful people apart isn’t just talent or hustle—it’s mindset. In this high-energy, thought-provoking keynote, psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and success strategist Joyce Marter reveals the hidden psychological patterns that make or break our personal and professional lives.

Drawing from over 25 years of clinical and business experience, Joyce blends science, soul, and storytelling—complete with humor, vulnerability, and real-life client breakthroughs. Attendees will explore 12 powerful mindsets of holistic success, from abundance and vision to self-love and resilience, and walk away inspired to rewrite their own story of what’s possible.

Whether you’re leading a team, building a business, or striving to level up your life, this keynote is your roadmap to achieving success from the inside out—with heart, purpose, and intention.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and cultivate the 12 key mindsets that drive holistic success
  • Apply cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness tools to overcome self-sabotage
  • Receive innovative self-assessment tools to support mental wellness and growth
  • Design a personalized action plan to increase resilience, clarity, and achievement

This session will energize your audience, expand their mindset, and equip them to lead, live, and succeed with purpose—and joy.

Mental health isn’t just a personal issue—it’s a leadership imperative. In today’s high-stress world, your workplace may be the front line for someone in crisis. This powerful and compassionate session empowers leaders to recognize and respond to mental health challenges before they become emergencies. Because when we know what to look for and how to respond, we can quite literally save lives.

With warmth, clarity, and decades of clinical expertise, Joyce Marter teaches leaders how to create psychologically safe spaces where employees feel seen, heard, and supported. This training isn’t optional—it’s essential. It helps prevent burnout, substance misuse, and even suicide, while also fostering trust, morale, and productivity. It’s time to break the silence and lead with heart.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify early warning signs of mental health and substance use challenges among employees
  • Use trauma-informed, empathetic communication strategies to offer meaningful support
  • Understand legal and ethical considerations, including confidentiality and reporting obligations
  • Create a culture of psychological safety that promotes resilience, connection, and organizational well-being

This session is more than a workshop—it’s a call to action. When we prioritize mental health, we protect our people and elevate our culture.

Treat your VIPs to a restorative and empowering experience designed to calm the mind, ground the body, and elevate performance. This mindfulness-based session offers high-level leaders the opportunity to pause, reset, and reconnect with their purpose in a fast-paced world. Through guided breathwork, visualization, and simple practices grounded in neuroscience and psychology, participants will cultivate clarity, focus, and emotional resilience. Ideal for executive retreats, leadership summits, or high-stakes events, this experience enhances wellbeing while setting the tone for intentional, heart-centered leadership.

Key Benefits:

  • Reduces stress and improves mental clarity
  • Enhances emotional regulation and decision-making
  • Promotes presence, creativity, and resilience
  • Strengthens connection to self and others

Perfect as a pre-conference VIP offering, leadership breakout, or closing experience to leave your most valued guests recharged and inspired.

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Jason Marotzke Presentations and Topics

Jason Marotzke is a seasoned presenter for children, teens and adults on a variety of topics related to communication, leadership, and wellness. Jason uses humor, language, and examples that are appropriate for this age group, which increases audience engagement and results.  He is highly skilled at facilitating discussion and promoting psychological safety for important discussions and learning to take place, especially around topics that are often sensitive or charged.

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Jason Marotzke’s Signature Keynote Presentations

Psychological safety is the #1 predictor of high-performing teams, yet it remains one of the most overlooked. In this timely and interactive session, Jason Marotzke, M.Ed. unpacks the power of creating environments where employees feel safe to speak up, take risks, and ask for help without fear of shame or retaliation. Participants will gain practical tools to foster trust, open communication, and meaningful collaboration across teams.

Key Takeaways:

  • Define and identify psychological safety in real-world settings
  • Learn how to spot and remove common workplace barriers to trust
  • Explore strategies to build a culture where people feel valued, heard, and empowered

Psychological safety isn’t optional—it’s essential to team success.

Workplace loneliness is a silent crisis that impacts mental health, engagement, and retention. In this compassionate and energizing session, Jason explores the root causes of disconnection—especially in remote and hybrid environments—and shares practical ways to rebuild connection and community. Participants will leave feeling inspired and equipped to create deeper belonging within their teams and organizations.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand the health and performance impacts of loneliness
  • Discover connection-based leadership techniques
  • Learn strategies to rebuild belonging in modern workplaces

Combat isolation and ignite meaningful connection—because belonging drives well-being and results.

Remote and hybrid work has fractured communication and collaboration. In this lively, interactive session, Jason uses the principles of improv to help participants sharpen their listening, creativity, and trust-building skills—all essential ingredients for cohesive, resilient teams. This session is filled with laughter, learning, and takeaways you can use immediately.

Key Takeaways:

  • Build connection and communication through play
  • Learn tools to improve active listening and collaboration
  • Walk away with team exercises that boost morale and cohesion

Play your way to stronger teams—and enjoy the process.

Mental health is health—and it’s time we talk about it. This empowering and stigma-reducing session offers essential education on common mental health challenges and provides easy-to-use tools for emotional wellness. Jason creates a safe, relatable space for participants to reflect, connect, and step into conversations with compassion and confidence.

Key Takeaways:

  • Recognize signs of common mental health conditions
  • Learn how to talk about mental health with empathy and clarity
  • Get resources to support your well-being and those around you

Normalize mental health and unlock your power to support yourself and others.

Every employee deserves a safe, respectful work environment. In this essential session, Jason provides clear, actionable steps to identify, prevent, and respond to bullying and harassment. Participants will engage in real-life scenarios and leave with tools to speak up and support a culture of dignity and accountability.

Key Takeaways:

  • Identify harmful behaviors and their impact on individuals and teams
  • Learn practical intervention and bystander strategies
  • Cultivate a respectful and responsive workplace culture

Empower your team to take a stand—for respect, safety, and one another.es and their collective impact. Resources on common practices will be shared, alongside opportunities for creating tailored action plans. The session will also facilitate group discussions and the formation of accountability partnerships.

Every brain works differently—and that’s a strength. This eye-opening and inclusive session helps participants understand and appreciate neurodivergent colleagues (including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and more). Through relatable stories and practical tools, Jason equips teams to foster respectful, productive collaboration across diverse thinking styles.

Key Takeaways:

  • Increase awareness and understanding of neurodivergence
  • Learn tools for inclusive communication and collaboration
  • Create a supportive environment that celebrates diverse talents

Neurodiversity is not a challenge to manage—it’s a strength to harness.

Thriving workplaces start with human connection. In this inspiring session, Jason teaches how to elevate communication, emotional intelligence, and psychological safety to improve trust, teamwork, and culture. Participants will leave with actionable strategies to lead and live with greater clarity, compassion, and purpose.

Key Takeaways:

  • Build self-awareness and interpersonal effectiveness
  • Practice emotional regulation, feedback skills, and empathy
  • Strengthen culture through authentic, human-centered leadership

Healthy culture starts with emotionally intelligent people—and grows from there.

Testimonials

“Joyce Marter’s business, Urban Balance, was one of the platform acquisitions to form Refresh Mental Health, a collection of top clinical mental health practices across the country. Joyce is a local, regional and national leader in the field of outpatient mental health counseling and has been a leader for Refresh from day one. I’m honored to call Joyce not only part of our Refresh management team, but also a life-long friend.”

Steve Gold, JD, MPH, MBE
CEO of Refresh Mental Health

“Employee mental health is a top concern for today’s C-Suite executives, particularly with an increase in distributed workforces. Joyce spoke to our CEO, CFO and CHRO communities to share pragmatic advice to help remote employees overcome the most common obstacles that impair productivity and help them implement strategies to cultivate positive morale, engagement, and wellness in an online work environment. She is an excellent presenter, and our audience gave her high marks for her enthusiasm and practical insights.”

Jamie Tassa
Vice President, Chief Executive Group

“Joyce delivered a three-part series to our audience of more than 200 Chief Financial Officers. It was one of the most popular sessions we have offered in our 16-year history, with several members indicating that it was among the most important programs they have ever attended….The CFO Leadership Council hosts almost 300 events per year, and Joyce ranks among the very best speakers we have had.”

Jack McCullough
CFO Leadership Council

“’Mental health and financial wealth are two topics that our community of architects struggle with every day… most often in silence. Joyce’s open, honest and friendly presentation brought permission to discuss and a solution to engage everyone in the room. A much-needed message at a time we need it most.’”

Mark R. LePage, AIA, NCARB
Founder, EntreArchitect


ā€œThank you for taking the time to share your expertise with us this week. Your insights were incredibly valuable and your presentation truly resonated with all of us. We are genuinely appreciative of the knowledge and experiences you shared, and I’m confident that many of the concepts you introduced will positively impact our daily work lives. We look forward tocollaborating with you in thefuture.ā€

LaTasha Sykes

Director of Finance
Hotel Intercontinental Chicago

ā€œJoyce’s presentation for our board retreat was extremely impactful and meaningful. Our audience felt such a connection with her as she brought a comfort level to a topic that is very sensitive. Her information was invaluable to our audience.ā€

Stacy Baker
Aires, A Global Relocation Company

ā€œEven though Joyce has built a multi-million dollar company when she speaks on stage, she injects humor and authenticity – so she becomes relatable to all audiences. Joyce uses her mental health and business background to inspire audiences to find more success, fulfillment, and balance in their lives. She commands the room with authority, yet makes each person feel like they know her. Her presentations are full of heart and are incredibly inclusive. She’s perfect for large and small audiences. Book her!ā€

Kathryn Janicek

Three-time Emmy Winning Producer

ā€œJoyce was the keynote speaker at the Illinois Counseling Association’s Annual Southern Conference in March of 2019. We were so grateful to have her speaking on ā€œThe Keys to Success in the Counseling Profession.ā€ She came in very prepared, had a very professional set-up with her inspiring signage and quality visual presentation, and was a high-energy, engaging speaker. She set the tone for the entire conference, putting everyone into high spirits and truly helped them to think about their journeys and ways to move forward and improve despite challenges. Our attendees raved about her wheels of self-care, support, and professional satisfaction – both for themselves and their clients. Thank you, Joyce, for your professionalism, relatability, and overall fantastic presentation!ā€

Rachel Gorsuch

Illinois Counseling Association Division Coordinator

ā€œJoyce Marter has delivered outstanding educational presentations for the Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association. The feedback we received from attendees of her presentations was that she conveyed practical business advice from a personal perspective in an easy going, down-to-earth way, and that she is a very skilled presenter with an excellent style of capturing and holding her audience’s attention.ā€

Dan Stasi

Executive Director, Illinois Counseling Association

ā€œI heard Joyce Marter speak last week at the American Counseling Association Leadership Training. She was authentic & vulnerable (the things we read about & strive to achieve) and was an excellent storyteller, full of wisdom. One thing that stood out was after years of practice, she still seems ever mindful of why she does what she does: the clients and the potential counselors have to impact for healing and good.ā€

Candice Jackson Ashburn

Philanthropist, Speaker & Writer

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An Experienced Mental Health Speaker with Proven Results for Changing Lives

Now, more than ever, mental health is a topic at the forefront of society. One in five American adults has a mental illness, and of 1,000 full-time workers recently surveyed across the U.S., more than 30% said their mental health declined over the past year. Statistics show that this can cause a significant decrease in productivity and millions of workdays lost every year. With the pandemic accelerating the urgency around supporting employee mental health, now is the time for employers to embrace work policies and programs that emphasize employee well-being as a priority.

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A healthy workplace is more productive and goal-oriented with a staff that is engaged

As a licensed psychotherapist and acclaimed national speaker passionate about destigmatizing mental illness and promoting mental health awareness, Joyce’s life’s work has been centered on helping people deal with mental health challenges in a constructive way. She prides herself on engaging in conversations surrounding mental health and offering tools to help people overcome their own personal challenges.

And as a renowned mental health practitioner, Joyce understands the unique needs of both individuals and organizations when it comes to addressing and destigmatizing mental health. Her approach is evidence-based, and her presentation fosters a conversation around mental health, while also providing resources for you and your staff.

Work with Joyce

The Problem:

In this post-pandemic era, employers are dealing with the following employee challenges: 

  • Burnout
  • Low motivation
  • Low productivity
  • Work-life balance challenges
  • Time management difficulties
  • The Great Resignation/The Silence Resignation
  • Difficulty attracting and retaining employees

According to the Center for Prevention and Health Services, untreated mental health concerns result in substantial costs for businesses—$60,000 annually for one organization and $105 billion nationwide. On a related note, according to Gallup, low morale costs American businesses up to $550 billion a year. 

These financial losses for businesses stem from:

  • Absenteeism
  • Low productivity 
  • Injury/Accidents
  • Healthcare costs
  • Employee Turnover

The Solution: 

Promote positive mental health in the workplace through Joyce’s services: 

  • Assessment and consultation on how to improve mental health in your workplace
  • Corporate training (in-person and virtual)
  • Keynote speeches
  • Executive leadership consulting, training, and retreats
  • Leadership coaching 
  • Team building 
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