Psychologist-Backed PepTalks to Strengthen Your People, Boost Wellbeing, and Build Resilience 

Strong relationships, balanced wellbeing, and positive workplace cultures aren’t just “nice-to-have”; they’re essential for sustainable performance and employee engagement.  

As an L&D leader, you’re tasked with equipping your people not only with the skills they need to excel in their roles but also the tools to thrive in life as a whole. One of the most effective ways to achieve that is by integrating structured, psychologist-led learning into your programs.  

Below is a curated selection of short, impactful PepTalks from experienced psychologists, wellbeing experts, and performance coaches. These sessions cover the fundamentals of communication, emotional regulation, resilience, workplace culture, and personal growth, and are designed to be practical, engaging, and easy to integrate into leadership training, onboarding, or ongoing development pathways.  

1. Relationships and How to Navigate Them 

With Dr. Vicki Uwannah – Chartered Counselling Psychologist 
Healthy relationships drive collaboration, trust, and retention. In this session, Dr. Vicki Uwannah teaches practical tools for managing conflict empathetically, improving communication, and fostering self-awareness; skills that apply across teams, clients, and home life.  

How to include: Add this to leadership development or emerging leader pathways to equip managers with conflict resolution and relationship-building skills early in their careers. 
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2. The Power of Positive Emotion in the Workplace 

With Nic Smith – Workplace Wellbeing Expert 
Positive emotions don’t only improve morale; they fuel productivity, creativity, and resilience. Nic Smith shares an easy, research-backed intervention leaders can apply immediately to uplift their teams.  

How to include: Use this talk as a microlearning piece to reinforce culture-building modules in your leadership curriculum. 
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3. Stress Less: Practical Strategies for a Calmer Life and Wellbeing 

With Dr. Chloe Carmichael – Clinical Psychologist 
Stress is inevitable, but how we respond to it shapes our health and performance. Dr. Chloe Carmichael reframes stress as an opportunity for growth, offering strategies to stay calm, set boundaries, and break the cycle of “stressing about stress.”  

How to include: Add to a wellbeing learning pathway to support mental health and resilience training, especially during high-pressure cycles like year-end or major projects. 
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4. The Key to Happiness: Balancing Life, Work, and Wellbeing 

With Dr. Ritz Suk Birah – Psychologist & Workplace Wellbeing Specialist 
True success comes from sustainable work-life balance. Dr. Ritz Suk Birah offers practical tips to prioritise, release guilt, and focus on what matters most while modelling healthy culture for others.  

How to include: Incorporate into new manager onboarding to help leaders create balance for themselves and their teams. 
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5. How to Put a Wellbeing Strategy in Place (and Measure It for Success) 

With Nic Smith – Workplace Wellbeing Expert 
Wellbeing strategies don’t need to be complex. Nic Smith provides a step-by-step plan to align wellbeing with business goals and methods to measure impact effectively.  

How to include: Perfect for HR, People & Culture teams or management certification programs as a practical primer in designing and measuring wellbeing initiatives. 
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6. Psychology Secrets of Winning Athletes 

With Jamil Qureshi – Performance Coach & Sports Psychologist 
Elite athletes operate under extreme pressure yet still perform at their peak. Jamil Qureshi shares the mental strategies they use to maintain focus, build resilience, and nurture a winning mindset.  

How to include: Add to leadership resilience modules or high-performance team pathways to help employees adopt the same psychological techniques that fuel success on and off the field. 
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7. Using Your Introvert Power at Work 

With Laurie Helgoe – Psychologist & Author 
Introverts have unique, underutilised strengths: deep listening, thoughtful analysis, and strategic perspective. Laurie Helgoe shares how organisations can harness introvert qualities for better collaboration and innovation.  

How to include: Integrate into inclusive leadership training to help managers appreciate all personality types and build diverse, high-functioning teams. 
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8. Redefining Your Story 

With Dr. Vicki Uwannah – Chartered Counselling Psychologist 
Our personal narratives shape how we see the world and ourselves. Dr. Vicki Uwannah helps participants identify unhelpful internal scripts, challenge them, and rewrite their story to enable positive change in work, life, and relationships.  

How to include: Add to career development programs or resilience pathways, especially during organisational change, to help employees shift mindset and embrace new possibilities. 
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How to Weave These Sessions into Your L&D Strategy 

1. Create themed learning pathways such as "Resilient Leadership" or "Workplace Wellbeing & Culture", bundling 3–4 of these sessions with reflection and practical exercises.  
2. Blend into live workshops by showing a PepTalk during training, then running small-group discussions to explore application to your organisation.  
3. Offer on-demand access so employees can watch in the flow of work, with prompts to share takeaways with their teams.  
4. Link to organisational KPIs by tying talks on positive emotion, resilience, and wellbeing strategy to engagement survey results, retention rates, and wellbeing metrics.  
5. Use as quarterly culture refreshers to keep resilience, EQ, and wellbeing skills top of mind. 

Bottom line: 
By embedding psychologist-backed content into your learning portfolio, you go beyond skill-building to develop emotional intelligence, resilience, and a thriving organisational culture. This is training that doesn’t just inform — it transforms.