Johnny Crowder
Mental Health CEO, Entrepreneur & Brain Changer
Johnny Crowder
Mental Health CEO, Entrepreneur & Brain Changer
Biography
Johnny Crowder is a suicide/abuse survivor, TEDx Talks speaker, touring musician, Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, and the Founder & CEO of Cope Notes, a text-based mental health platform that provides daily support to users in nearly 100 countries around the world.
Armed with a decade of clinical treatment, a psychology degree from the University of Central Florida, and 10+ years of peer support and public advocacy experience through the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Johnny’s youthful vigor and leadership for better mental health has impacted millions of lives across the globe.
Since his first keynote in 2011, Johnny's refreshingly candid perspective has attracted praise from hundreds of outlets, including Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and even CNN World. Whether leading corporate wellness trainings or touring with his Billboard-charting heavy metal band, Prison, his infectious positivity and firsthand experience with multiple diagnoses uniquely equip him to provide realistic insight and inspiration amidst the pains of hardship with care, levity, and unconventional wit.
Speech Topics
Beyond Coping: How to Foster Resilience, Connection & Happiness in the Workplace
Crippling burnout. Chronic absenteeism. Rampant resignations. The multi-headed monster of compassion fatigue, longer working days, and employee isolation are damming up the rivers of productivity at thousands of companies. Employers are concerned—and rightfully so.
Leveraging insights from his own lifelong mental health journey, Johnny Crowder shows audiences why talking about mental health should be as straightforward as talking about physical health, even in the workplace. In plain English, he shares the hard-won strategies for emotional wellbeing that led to the creation of his science-backed breakthrough mental and emotional support program, Cope Notes, which is now in use in nearly 100 countries around the world. This entertaining and actionable keynote program delivers proven steps to:
- Rethink and reframe professional and personal challenges as they arise
- Build work cultures that proudly prioritize and support mental health for all
- Process mental and emotional distress in a way that builds relationships, confidence, and happiness
Radical Vulnerability: An Unconventionally Candid Conversation about Building Mental Wellness
Play it cool. Keep it together. Don’t let ‘em see you sweat. As CEO of the global mental health company Cope Notes, Johnny Crowder knows how it feels to bury emotional health challenges for the sake of maintaining a “professional” image in the face of watchful employees and a discerning marketplace. After all, that’s what a leader should do, right?
In fact, keeping up the “everything is fine” charade didn’t help or protect him. As researchers now know, emotional resilience requires vulnerability. But self-judgment and shame keep people from developing the authenticity they need to confront pain, learn self-acceptance, and practice better self-care. In this fun and engaging presentation, your audience will learn how to:
- Leverage past hardships for the benefit of others
- Work toward being truthful and authentic in even the most challenging situations
- Process mental and emotional distress in a way that builds relationships, confidence, and happiness
The Punk Rock Guide to Entrepreneurship: Going From Zero to Millions Without Selling Your Soul
By embarking on any entrepreneurial journey, you’re signing up to fail – at least, that’s what the statistics warn. So what do you need to beat the odds? Outside capital? Ivy League degrees? Friends in high places? If that were the case, today’s Fobes list wouldn’t tout the infamous garage-to-NASDAQ stories that inspire scrappy DIY self-starters to pursue innovative new ideas. Johnny Crowder built a global mental health company without a business degree or even a business plan. But how did he leverage the skills he honed in his heavy metal music career to turn Cope Notes® into a worldwide force for good?
In this empowering and tactical presentation, Johnny peels back the tech startup veil to teach your audience how to:
- Differentiate between the nice-to-have and essential ingredients of a successful business
- Identify and foster the types of mental and emotional strength that entrepreneurship demands
- Apply mindset, focus, and resilience strategies that build stamina and scalable success
The Surprising Productivity of Self-Care: Using Mindfulness to Combat Burnout & Compassion Fatigue
48% of the U.S. workforce struggles with compassion fatigue. The result? Burnout, absenteeism, mental and emotional distress, poor sleep, unhealthy diets, reliance on dangerous coping mechanisms, and sky-high turnover, particularly in caring professions.
Empathetic and compassionate people are invaluable on any team. But when compassion makes it feel as if the weight of the world is on your shoulders, genuine empathy can devolve into unhappiness, unproductivity, and an inability to help the very people you care about in the first place. Mindfulness is one of the simplest and most practical tools for self-care, and Johnny shows audiences how to gradually make it an important part of anyone’s daily routine.
Your audience will learn how to:
- Identify the sources and symptoms of compassion fatigue
- Rethink the assumptions that trigger impostor syndrome and guilt
- Implement self-care strategies that drive a renewed sense of energy and purpose in the workplace and beyond
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