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Conference Session
D2: Innovative Approaches: Transforming Workplaces through Psychological Health & Safety Implementation
Speakers | Fawna Bews, Katie Bobra, Brandy Zimmerman, Megan Hunter
Unlock the secrets to fostering psychologically healthy and safe workplaces with our panel of forward-thinking organizations and experienced consultants. Join us as we showcase real-world success stories of organizations aligning with the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. Learn from industry leaders and expert consultants who are pioneering innovative strategies to prioritize employee well-being, enhance productivity, and cultivate positive organizational cultures. Gain practical insights, best practices, and actionable takeaways from both organizational leaders and consultants who help guide the process. Let this panel be your guide in making Psychological Health and Safety more manageable and achievable for your organization, drawing on the combined expertise of those within organizations and those who support them.
Speaker Biographies
Host: Fawna Bews
As the Learning & Development Coordinator for Working Stronger Fawna brings a career filled with capacity building. Ultimately, hoping for a world of people skilled in caring for themselves and one another, she sees the potential that addressing psychological health & safety in the workplace can have on enhancing the lives of Canadians. She is thrilled to moderate this panel of workplace wellness cultivators.
Panelist: Katie Bobra, MPH-HP HR Wellness Consultant, City of Calgary
Katie is passionate about collaboration and engagement to create psychologically safe and healthy conditions in the workplace. As an educator, advocate, and leader in this area, she has provided consulting services and developed mental health strategies and approaches to psychological health and safety for various large and complex organizations.
Panelist: Brandy Zimmerman
Brandy Zimmerman is the CEO & Founder, Thriving Workplaces – a transformative approach to workplace mental health and psychological safety. Brandy specializes in taking workplace mental health from theory to practice. She is CMHA-Certified in Psychological Health & Safety, is the former Associate Minister of Health in Alberta, where she was responsible for Mental Health & Substance Use.
Panelist: Megan Hunter, BKin, BEd, MSc
Known for her creative approach to health promotion (and contagious enthusiasm) as an educator, facilitator and presenter, Megan merges kinesiology with mental health advocacy. She is on a mission to connect, create community and collaborate with organizations, communities, and businesses to develop psychologically safe and healthy spaces. In her current role, Sr. Advisor Employee Well-Being with Calgary Board of Education, Megan is focused on targeted health promotion strategies to enhance the experience of workplace well-being for all employees.
Megan is a co-author of Teacher Take Care and illustrator for the Misty River Valley Fairies book series. Alongside her work she and her family enjoy their time together on bikes and boards in the mountains.