8:00 AM Start with Welcome & Announcements
8:05 - 9:35 AM Session #1 Building a Healthy & Resilient Organizational Culture
9:35 Break
9:45 - 11:15 AM Session #2 Building a Culture of Mental Well-being: A Strategic Roadmap for Employers
Session #1 Information
Building a Healthy & Resilient Organizational Culture
We’ve all witnessed how fatigue and burnout can lead to personal and organizational ineffectiveness, higher turnover, and lower job satisfaction for leaders and the teams they serve.
In an engaging 90-minute workshop, presenters Anne Ballentine and Emily Jonesberg will help you develop a plan to guard against burnout and build resilience for yourself, your team, and your organization. The interactive session is designed to help participants become more effective leaders, facilitating a workplace culture where team members feel heard, cared for, and motivated to achieve.
Objectives
- § Understand the cycle of fatigue, burnout, and resilience, and reflect on personal experiences to understand what fuels and depletes your own energy and outlook.
- § Evolve your approach to locus of control to empower you for success and greater well-being.
- § Enhance skills in setting clear and realistic expectations and getting shared agreement.
- § Practice setting and upholding boundaries in order to achieve your most important priorities.
- § Learn how establishing team and organizational culture agreements supports a resilient culture.
- § Expand your understanding of self-care and renewal as you build a Resilience Toolkit that allows you to show up as your best self both at work and at home.
Deliverables
- § Interactive exercises and small group discussions, allowing you to apply concepts in real time and set goals you can act on immediately.
- § Examples of direct yet professional language that you can apply to real life scenarios
- § Tools you can use personally on an ongoing basis that help you and your team be effective and compassionate leaders.
- § An opportunity to complete a pre-session wellness assessment to see what areas may need attention to give you a more balanced and satisfying work and personal life.
- § Relationship building opportunity to engage with your colleagues as you share challenges and ideas
Meet the Speakers!
Anne Ballentine’s career spans four decades with leadership roles in marketing and corporate communications, public relations, business development, and community engagement as well as more than a decade as a television news anchor and reporter. Most recently she served as vice president of marketing and communications for Rogers Behavioral Health. A graduate of DePauw University with a Bachelor of Arts in communication arts and sciences and a minor in business administration, Ballentine also provides compassion resilience training, is a certified yoga instructor, serves on several boards and is an active community volunteer.
Emily Jonesberg has a Master of Social Work and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 15 years of mental health and equity programming work in the school, non-profit, and healthcare sectors. As program manager for Rogers Behavioral Health’s Community Learning and Engagement, Emily supports a suite of evidence-informed programs aimed to eliminate mental health stigma and enhance organizational culture. She is a strong advocate for the creation of compassionate cultures grounded in equity and trauma informed practices.
Session #2 Information
Building a Culture of Mental Well-being: A Strategic Roadmap for Employers
This interactive session equips HR leaders with a strategic roadmap to foster mentally healthy workplace cultures. Through real-world examples, peer discussion, and WCWI’s Five Pillars framework, participants will explore actionable ways to embed mental well-being into organizational practices.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe current mental health challenges impacting Wisconsin workplaces.
- Apply a five-pillar framework to assess and improve their organization’s culture of mental well-being.
- Identify common barriers to implementing mental health strategies—and potential solutions.
- Commit to at least one practical action to support a mentally healthy workplace.
Meet the Speakers!
Carley Hoelzel is the Executive Director of the Wellness Council of Wisconsin (WCWI), where she leads statewide efforts to help employers build mentally healthy, connected workplace cultures. With a background in nonprofit leadership and community health, Carley brings a practical, people-centered approach to her work—focusing on real-world strategies that support well-being across all levels of an organization.
She has spent her career in mission-driven spaces, building partnerships, leading educational initiatives, and championing systems-level change. Carley believes that mental health is not just a wellness issue, but a business strategy—and she is committed to helping leaders create workplaces where employees feel safe, supported, and seen.
Dr. Tiffany Dorst is a Wellness Education Specialist at Mental Health America Lakeshore, where she oversees Workplace Resiliency Programming and provides community mental health education. With over two decades of experience in the mental health field and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, she brings a compassionate, trauma-informed, and holistic approach to her work. Dr. Dorst is also a certified Reiki practitioner and Wellness Coach, integrating mind-body practices to support healing and growth. She is passionate about creating safe, supportive spaces that foster resilience, personal well-being, and psychological safety in both individuals and communities.
This event is pending certification - please stay tuned!
