Biography
Elizabeth helps people help people.
As a Certified Psychological Health and Safety Advisor, corporate mental health trainer and professional speaker Elizabeth’s core belief is that we all possess the ability to help someone who’s struggling. When armed with the right tools we can make a profound difference in what that journey looks like. She has had the great pleasure of delivering this message across the country through keynoting, training, consulting, random conversations with the person sitting next to her on airplanes and even a police officer who stopped her for speeding – just about everyone is touched in some way by mental health. (And yes, she was let off with a written warning!) Elizabeth is passionate about demystifying and destigmatizing mental health, and empowering people to help one another by having what many imagine to be difficult, awkward, uncomfortable conversations. Spoiler alert: they don’t have to be!
Elizabeth has played a key role in making mental health education widely accessible in the Atlantic region. She has personally certified more than 5,000 Canadians in the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Mental Health First Aid program. She works with organizations from diverse industries that are striving to optimize psychological wellness to boost engagement, reduce absenteeism and turnover, and make the workplace a happier, healthier place to be. Her work as a consultant involves assessing organizational needs and guiding leaders through best practice adoption, policy development, culture change strategies and staged implementation of Canada’s National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. She has helped decision makers in organizations large and small understand that mental health is a vital component of occupational safety management.
Having grown up in this beautiful corner of southern New Brunswick, Elizabeth is proud to call Charlotte County her forever home. She presently serves as Vice President of the Eastern Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and as an Advisory Committee member for Women in Business New Brunswick. In addition to her corporate training and consulting companies she owns businesses in the clinical health care industry and a short-term rental property in St. Andrews By-the-Sea. Elizabeth identifies the three essential components of her personal happy place as a hot cup of coffee, a good book and her best gal pals — her Weimaraner, Ruby, and German Shorthaired Pointer pup, Violet.