Keynote Speaking
Mark Butler is an in-demand keynote speaker. His combined experience of both clinical and corporate mental health positions him as a true authority when it comes to psychosocial hazards that workers can feel, often leading to burnout, anxiety, and other overwhelming stresses.
His unique transition from being positioned ‘an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’ to now being ‘the fence at the top of the cliff’ has allowed him to develop clear insights into how organisations can proactively approach their employees’ psychosocial wellbeing.
He shares his insights through engaging presentations with audiences everywhere. These are not heavy-going presentations, despite the topics, as Mark uses humour to keep the subjects light and digestible.
All keynotes include:
30-90 minute interactive session
In-person or virtual
Uncapped numbers
Optional Ask Me Anything Q&A session as part of the presentation.
Mark is also amenable to taking part in panel discussions.
To find about more about booking Mark for a keynote session.
Presentation Topics:
Up Yours! In Pursuit of a Radical Self-Care Program
Based on Mark's latest book
Forget the wellness clichés. Real self-care isn't just green smoothies and sleep hygiene — it's a radical reclamation of how you show up in every dimension of your life. This high-energy keynote cuts through the noise to reveal how your physical vitality, mental sharpness, emotional depth, and sense of belonging are all pulling on the same rope. When one frays, they all feel it. When they work together? That's where you become unstoppable.
Burnout is Everyone's Business
Look at the iceberg, not just the penguin
When looking for the penguin, we sometimes miss the iceberg. This keynote goes beneath the surface of workplace exhaustion to expose what's really driving burnout. And why "just slow down" advice misses the point entirely. You'll leave knowing how to spot the early warning signs in yourself and your team, how to pull back strategically to get ahead, and how to genuinely look out for the people around you without absorbing their pain as your own.
Can We Talk?
Building cultures where the hard conversations happen
The most important conversations at work are the ones nobody's having. This keynote gives leaders four practical approaches to having caring, courageous conversations. The kind that build trust, prevent crises, and make people feel like they genuinely belong. Because psychological safety isn't a poster on the wall. It's built one honest conversation at a time, and it starts with you.
It Might Not Be Burnout
Getting the diagnosis right changes everything
Burnout is real, but it's often not the only thing going on. When we apply a single label to every form of workplace distress, we risk missing what people actually need, and sometimes causing more harm in the process. This keynote widens the lens on mental health challenges across sectors, giving leaders and organisations the discernment to distinguish burnout from other conditions, respond with precision, and build interventions that actually work.
Leading Through Change
Where empathy meets the psychology of transformation
Change doesn't fail because of bad strategy. It fails because people feel unseen, unheard, and unprepared. This keynote unpacks the psychology of why change is hard — not as a weakness, but as a deeply human response — and gives leaders the emotional intelligence tools to work with that reality rather than bulldozing through it. You'll leave with a clear understanding of your role as the emotional anchor of your team, and a practical communication framework that builds trust, reduces resistance, and turns uncertainty into momentum.
The Relational Intelligence Advantage
Most leaders are trained to be smart. Fewer are trained to connect. This talk explores relational intelligence as the hidden driver of high-performing teams, covering empathy, rupture and repair, and the neuroscience of trust.
The Neurodiverse Workplace
Neurological difference is a competitive advantage hiding in plain sight. This talk builds pattern literacy in leaders and teams, helping them unlock the strengths that come from cognitive diversity.