Leading Mentally Healthy Workplaces

Explore evidence-based approaches to supporting mental health at work and creating environments where people can thrive.

This masterclass equips leaders with practical skills to recognise early signs of distress, respond effectively and design proactive strategies that improve wellbeing and support psychologically healthy workplaces.

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Overview

Poor mental health affects one in five working-age adults each year, with many more experiencing issues across their lifetime. As a result, organisations—and the leaders within them—play a critical role in shaping outcomes for employees who may be struggling. This masterclass introduces evidence-based approaches that help you manage mental health concerns while also creating conditions that promote individual flourishing.

You will explore how work design, culture and leadership behaviours influence mental health at work, and examine why supporting wellbeing is both a business imperative and a psychosocial hazard management requirement. The program takes a proactive and practical approach, helping you understand how to identify early signs of distress, apply supportive communication strategies and develop tiered organisational responses.

The masterclass is highly interactive, with individual and group exercises designed to reinforce learning, practise new skills and build confidence. You will leave with a clearer understanding of your authentic mental health leadership voice and a strategic action plan that supports wellbeing across your team and organisation.

Who Should Attend

This course is essential for executives, team leaders and individuals preparing for leadership roles who want to strengthen their ability to support mental health, respond to psychosocial risks and create environments where employees can thrive.

Course Content

During this training course, you will explore:

Evidence-based leadership approaches to strengthening mental health at work
How work design, culture and leadership behaviours influence wellbeing
Practical skills for recognising distress, supporting resilience and responding effectively
Motivational interviewing techniques for supportive conversations
A tiered organisational action plan framework
Approaches that foster authentic mental health allyship in teams and organisations.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this training course, you should be able to:

Apply cutting-edge leadership theory to create psychologically healthy environments that support individual flourishing
Identify how work design, culture and leadership behaviours shape employee mental health and how to shift the dial toward better outcomes
Develop practical skills to recognise early signs of distress, support resilience and respond effectively, including motivational interviewing techniques
Create an evidence-based tiered action plan framework that addresses key organisational challenges and opportunities
Foster an authentic, supportive approach to mental health allyship.

Facilitator Profile

Dr Joseph Carpini

Senior Lecturer of HR Management and Organisational Behaviour at the UWA Business School

Joseph’s teaching and research philosophies revolve around evidence-based human resource practices as the impetus for unlocking human wellbeing and potential, both of which contribute to individual flourishing and organisational success. Joseph is a Senior Lecturer of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Western Australia Business School. He passionately leverages his teaching and research to improve workplaces so that all employees can experience positive mental health whilst also growing professionally. His research examines the factors that shape, and the interventions that improve, both mental health and performance at work. Joseph research has been published in leading academic journals as well as through media outlets.

Joseph has taught courses in Australia, Singapore, and Canada. Through his collaborative and engaging teaching style, Joseph emphasises the active balancing of evidence-based practice with operational and practical boundaries. His teaching has been formally recognised through a University Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, and Students’ Choice Award.

Joseph holds a PhD in Management from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Science in Business Administration from Concordia University (John Molson School of Business). He is also a Mental Health First Aid officer and a Fellow of both the Australian Human Resource Institute and the High Education Academy.