About this episode

Melissa Doman discusses her journey from clinical therapy to becoming a leading voice in workplace mental health.

Most professionals who make the leap from clinical therapy to the corporate world stumble on the same obstacle: they speak the wrong language. They know the science cold. They understand what's happening beneath the surface in any dysfunctional team, toxic culture, or burned-out leadership group. But if they can't connect those insights to the metrics that actually keep executives up at night — retention, productivity, profitability — they get dismissed as well-meaning outsiders. Melissa Doman figured this out the hard way, and built a thriving practice on the other side of that realization. In this episode, Melissa — organizational psychologist, former clinical therapist, LinkedIn Top Voice , and author of Cornered Office: Why We Need to Talk About Leadership Mental Health — traces the winding path from her 2013 exit from clinical practice to becoming one of the most recognizable voices in workplace mental health. She was doing this work before the pandemic made it fashionable, before the term "psychological safety" softened the room, and before companies started putting mental health line items in their budgets. Peter and Melissa dig into the mechanics of what actually made her…

People in this episode

Hosts: Peter Winick, Bill Sherman

Guest: Melissa Doman

Topics covered

• mental health
• workplace culture
• leadership
• organizational psychology
• thought leadership

Keywords

• mental health
• corporate world
• psychological safety
• leadership
• productivity
• retention

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Cornered Office: Why We Need to Talk About Leadership Mental Health

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