headversity: Building a Psychologically Safe Work Culture

When it comes to creating an effective work culture and a healthy organizational environment, the most important aspect is employee wellness. In fact, the workforce has to get ahead of the adversity and the worst days. This is what headversity is pioneering. The company help organizations with proactive tools focused on upskilling employee mental wellbeing. At headversity, the team is on a mission to set the new standard for workforce mental health through a focus on prevention. Through the use of technology, the company helps the workforce upskill mental health and get ahead of adversity. At headversity, the team is devoted to shifting the conversation away from illness and towards wellbeing. For too long, the industry has focused exclusively on reactive solutions to address workforce mental health. The root of todayโ€™s challenges is much further upstream, and its solutions are uniquely positioned to help organizations meet those challenges head on.

With a focus on prevention, headversity offers skill-based training to help workforces improve their mental wellbeing by addressing three persistent challenges: mental health, workplace safety and operational excellence. With an industry-first blended learning method that integrates SOLO and TEAM training with platform intelligence, we have helped more than 1 million employees around the world upskill resilience, behavioral health and psychological safety. โ€œAt headversity we are driven by the belief that the key to a happy, productive and psychologically safe workforce is resilience, and that everyone has the capacity to upskill it themselves.โ€

In fact, the companyโ€™s solutions are built for the doer. The action biased. Individuals and teams who understand that the best form of learning is by living and experiencing it, rather than workshops or endlessly consuming content on a screen. โ€œWe wear our 5-minute daily average training time as a badge of honor. Our solutions demand less time, inspire more action, and seamlessly fit within the workday.โ€

Powered by a resilience AI

The companyโ€™s technology was built for the workforce, full stop. Powered by a resilience AI, headversity upskills the workforce via personalized micro content and turnkey team training in resilience, behavioral health, and psychological safety. The companyโ€™s solutions are crafted to help managers get deeper insights into workforce on a population or departmental level. The solution also helps to gain access to a dashboard, pulse and quarterly reporting. Teams can also access data insights to understand warning signs as they arise and build meaningful campaigns to proactively build employee wellbeing.

The companyโ€™s training is designed with the employee in mind. headversity empowers employees to thrive in the flow of work, giving them quick, interactive tools that help them in real-time. Not only do employees get the latest in evidence-based content; they get evergreen tools that can be called upon in any moment to mentally upskill on the job. Knowing when and what to focus on is challenging for the best of us. This tool helps employees put attention where its needed and, very importantly, decide how to feel during a challenging event. Meanwhile, their Calming tool helps employees practice breathing to improve focus and confidence, or simply for emotional regulation. โ€œIn todayโ€™s world, distractions are constant. Our mindfulness packs range from singles to comprehensive 7-day packages to help employees with topics like productivity, gratitude, or even sleep.โ€

Enhancing Employee Mental Health

The human brain has tens of thousands of thoughts per day, but many of them are inaccurate or unclear. The companyโ€™s thinking tool helps employees distill the noise and practice accurate thinking habits.Whereas the optimism tool help employees put attention where itโ€™s needed and, very importantly, decide how you need to feel during a challenging event. Another solution, headversityโ€™s Headzone help employees put attention where itโ€™s needed and, very importantly, decide how to feel during a challenging event.

With an industry-first blended learning system that integrates SOLO and TEAM training with platform intelligence, headversity have helped employees in more than 22 countries around the world upskill resilience, behavioral health and psychological safety so they can think, feel and be their best.

Headversity is a young, agile, innovation-starved group of entrepreneurs that will work with businesses to build the best solution that fits organizations, no matter what. Because when it comes to mental health, the old way of doing things doesnโ€™t hold up anymore. The team has built award-winning programs with partners based on two simple fundamentals: listening to their problems and adapting with the technology.

Meeting the Growing Mental Health Demands

Ryan Todd is a psychiatrist and technologist, founding the workplace mental health and resilience platform, headversity. Ryan is also an award-winning documentarian, a Top 40 under 40 recipient with Avenue Magazine, a published researcher, and the host of the popular HR podcast, โ€œBeyond the Checkboxโ€. Through headversity, Ryan envisions getting the core training skills out of the backlogged mental health system and into employeesโ€™ hands. Fun facts about me: Iโ€™m an avid hunter and a massive Saskatchewan Roughriders fan.

Dr. Ryan Todd,ย headversityย CEO and co-founder saysย heaversityโ€™sย focus on prevention and hands-on upskilling has been a key reason for its success.

โ€œOne of the many reasonsย headversityย has emerged as a go-to solution for the workforce is its focus on prevention,โ€ said Dr. Todd. โ€œWeโ€™ve seen a market shift that impacted far more people acutely when it comes to mental health over the past few years, yet most programs in place are intervening when employees are in distress. Whether it be in person or a telehealth service, there arenโ€™t enough counselors to meet the growing mental health demands today. Being able to scale our technology and give people the evidence-based training and tools they can work on independently, or in a team setting, we feel is the best way to meet the growing needs in the workplace. We are uniquely positioned in the industry in the prevention space and weโ€™re grateful that itโ€™s resonated with our partners and for the recognition of our growth as a result.โ€

Company:
headversity

Management:
Dr. Ryan Todd, CEO

Quote:

โ€œAt headversity we are driven by the belief that the key to a happy, productive and psychologically safe workforce is resilience, and that everyone has the capacity to upskill it themselvesโ€