Dr. Bill Howatt is the Founder and President of Howatt Human Resources Consulting. As a behavioral scientist with more than 30 years of clinical experience in mental health and addictive disorders, Dr. Bill is driven with a passion for guiding employees and employers in creating psychological safe, inclusive, and thriving workplace cultures. He is known internationally as one of the world’s top workplace mental health experts.

Dr. Bill is the former Chief of Research, Workforce Productivity, at The Conference Board of Canada, as well as the former Chief of Research and Development, Workforce Productivity, at Lifeworks (formerly Morneau Shepell). Dr. Bill has created the senate-approved Certificate in Psychologically Safe Leadership & Certificate in Management Essentials, Pathway to Coping and Mental Fitness Practice through the University of New Brunswick. He is a co-founder of a B-to-B mental health App called MFIQ, designed to facilitate two-way accountability between employers and employees for protecting and promoting employee’s mental health.

Dr. Bill regularly contributes to workplace mental health research, and has published more than 850 thought leaders articles on workplace mental health across publications such as Talent Canada, OHS Magazine, The Chronicle Herald, and The Globe and Mail. Dr. Bill is the Chair of the CSA Technical Committee on the Management of Impairment, and is a member of CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Occupational Health and Safety. Dr. Bill has also published more than 60 books such as: The Globe & Mail Best Seller: Cure for Loneliness, Stop Hiding and Start Living and his latest release:  No Regrets. Each week more than 10,000 people receive a newsletter from Dr. Bill on the latest explorations and findings on workplace mental health.