Speaking Programs

As an inspirational keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, Mike Veny delivers:

  • Education with actionable outcomes
  • Engagement in live and virtual settings
  • Entertainment with high-energy

His unique presentations bring a fresh energy to conferences, conventions and employee training through his engaging presentations that empower transformation and connection.

Mike customizes each presentation to fit the goals and needs of your event, but at the heart of every topic is the gift of emotional wellness. The combination of his lived experience and educational content will make your event memorable.

Transforming Stigma® Into Strength

During the next year, one in five people will experience a mental health challenge, and 1.5 million people will attempt to die by suicide. The stigma surrounding mental health is an enormous barrier to people seeking treatment and getting the help they need. And here’s a proven solution: Transforming Stigma®. This high-energy keynote presentation performs double duty as an important educational experience and as entertainment for your audience. You’ve got an important decision to make.

Learning Objectives:

  • Differentiate self-care from escape activities.
  • Identify strategies for practicing self-care to diminish feelings of shame related to mental health challenges.
  • Determine how to engage in helpful conversations on the subject of mental health.
  • Discover how to overcome the consequences of not addressing mental health.
  • Empower people who are struggling through cultivating a sense of community.

Transforming Stigma® in the Workplace

This program is the best kept secret to improved PRODUCTIVITY, team PERFORMANCE and company PROFITS. Addressing mental health is a vital component of your company’s Diversity & Inclusion strategy and a totally new way of looking at. Top companies are setting a new standard for Diversity & Inclusion through investing in essential resources for mental wellness. Attendees will learn practical tools on how to transform stigma into strength and empower each other to get the help they need.

Learning Objectives:

  • Cultivate a culture of self-care.
  • Identify strategies and considerations for having conversations about mental health in the workplace.
  • Identify resources to support mental wellness.

How to Find Inner Peace in Times of Uncertainty

There has never been a more important time in history to focus on your mental wellness. Finding inner peace is crucial to your health and safety. This important presentation will revitalize you. First and foremost, you will learn to shield yourself from stress. Next, you will learn to put your mind at ease and reduce your anxiety. Last but not least, you will learn to take advantage of golden opportunities to cope with loneliness and grief. Don’t miss this unique opportunity.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the importance of prioritizing stress management.
  • Identify three simple techniques to handle stress in minutes.
  • Practice three exercises to relieve anxiety and manage obsessive thinking.
  • Identify three inspiring strategies to cope with loneliness and grief.

How To Take Care Of YOU!

There has never been a more important time in history to focus on your mental wellness. You may have heard a lot about self-care but perhaps you’re unsure how to practice it. Or maybe you’ve dismissed it as all “smoothies and bubble baths,” and you question whether self-care can really help you. In this interactive workshop, you will learn what self-care really is (and isn’t) and how you can implement self-care strategies that work for you to improve your overall wellness.

Learning Objectives:

  • Differentiate self-care from escape activities.
  • Identify strategies for practicing self-care.
  • Explain the eight dimensions of wellness and how to leverage them to help build resilience.
  • Make a plan to cope ahead for stressful situations.
  • Create a customized self-care plan.

Transforming Stigma® in the Classroom

This compelling professional development keynote presentation has been a source of MOTIVATION and SUICIDE PREVENTION for schools throughout the USA. It’s an abundance of simple and practical steps (with colorful examples) that teachers can take to IMMEDIATELY to cultivate mental wellness in the classroom. This presentation offers HOPE and TOOLS for teachers who work with students who are struggling with mental health challenges, behavioral health challenges, and self-destructive behavior. Take this important first step to help your students.

Learning Objectives:

  • Articulate the importance of self-care.
  • Identify strategies to promote mental wellness during distance learning.
  • Integrate mental health conversations into the curriculum.
  • Detect when a student is struggling. Devise strategies to support students who are struggling.

Fill Your Cup: Emotional Wellness For Exhausted Educators

You’ve heard the saying: You cannot pour from an empty cup. As an educator, your cup may be empty, or close to it. After pouring yourself into your job and your students, there is often little left in that cup for you, your family, and others. It may have led you to question your career choice and possibly even your true passion and purpose in life. Filling your cup can be challenging, but it can be done. This presentation will provide educators with tools and strategies for protecting and promoting their emotional wellness while supporting the wellbeing of their students. First, you will learn how to let go of worry and get control of your time. Next, you will learn how to take care of yourself. Finally, you will learn strategies for supporting your students’ emotional wellness.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify strategies for spending your time and energy efficiently, productively, and peacefully.
  • Identify strategies for managing stress and preventing burnout.
  • Identify strategies for supporting students’ emotional wellness, including having conversations about mental health.

Unleash Your Groove® Drumming Workshop

This live and interactive program is designed exclusively as a TEAM BUILDING program for employees. Through guidelines that support RESPECT for each other, they will quickly learn to embrace DIVERSITY & INCLUSION. Engagement often spells the difference between success and failure when it comes to corporate team building events. But it can be tricky to get a room full of people with different personalities, interests, and skills to engage in the same activity. However, this is exactly what I focus on accomplishing through my corporate drumming events. While your employees work together throughout the corporate team building activities and games, they are also learning important leadership development lessons. By using the drums I’m able to talk with your group about important leadership topics like building an environment of trust, handling confrontation, communication, the importance of listening, and cooperation. The games and activities that I take the group through allow them to put these skills into practice with each other right off the bat.

Learning Objectives:

  • Cultivate a welcoming culture in which people feel like they belong.
  • Explore ways to be intentional about developing a connection with others.
  • Identify ways to work together toward a larger vision.