Speaker Series

With Dr. Jennifer Fraser

“There is extensive neuroscientific research on how ALL forms of bullying and abuse can and usually do physical harm to the brain. It can be seen on brain scans.”
— Dr. Jennifer Fraser

The workplace is rife with bullying and abuse, which can cause invisible brain injuries. Yet because our brains are remarkably adept at repairing all kinds of traumas and injuries, we can heal our scars and restore our health.

In The Bullied Brain, Dr. Jennifer Fraser shares evidence from doctors, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, and neuroscientists that shows:

How you can heal your neurological scars and restore your health

The harm done by bullying and abuse to your brain

With Dr. Jennifer Fraser

In her new book The Gaslit Brain, Dr. Jennifer Fraser explores how gaslighting manipulates the brain—both in how it’s used and how it harms. Through neuroscience and psychology, she reveals how manipulators exploit trust, status, and credibility to distort reality, erode mental clarity, and even cause physical brain damage. As gaslighting infiltrates both personal and public life, understanding its effects has become essential for psychological safety.

With Dawn Johnson

Ever wonder why some workplace conflicts feel more calculated than random? Welcome to Bully Intelligence — your guide to decoding the tactics that workplace bullies use to undermine their targets. Like a chess player who can anticipate their opponent’s moves, understanding these patterns gives you the power to protect yourself and others. This eye-opening presentation pulls back the curtain on workplace bullying.

With Kim Williams

Employers sidestep accountability for creating safe and respectful workplaces. From systemic flaws to behind-the-scenes maneuvers, this session will provide invaluable insights into the challenges workers face in holding organizations accountable. Learn:

Practical advice for navigating and protecting yourself within a system that often prioritizes profit over people

How laws governing workplace safety are created, implemented, and enforced

The backdoor conversations and strategies that occur at the highest levels of organizations to deflect responsibility

With Amy Ebbeson, LCSW

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is highly affiliated with workplace abuse yet sadly, PTSD is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed by medical and mental health professionals not familiar with the dynamics of workplace abuse. Left untreated, trauma can have a lifelong impact. Please join trauma focused LCSW Amy Ebbeson and learn how to: 1) identify the symptoms of PTSD, 2) detach from the pain, and 3) learn ways to cope in the aftermath of workplace abuse. The good news: there is life beyond abuse.

With Deb Falzoi

Leaving a toxic work environment is rarely the end of the story. In fact, sometimes it feels like the beginning of another nightmare. We are often not aware of the full extent of the physical, mental, and emotional health harm that has occurred until after we leave. Feeling like our old self seems like an insurmountable task. We want to get our lives back on track and feel better but don’t know where to begin. Workplace abuse involves deep betrayal. We don’t feel safe. Our trust has been violated. Sometimes we don’t even trust ourselves. Our belief in a just world has been completely shattered. We find ourselves sick and unemployed. It does take time, but we CAN feel better. Recovery is possible for those who suffer from institutional betrayal. Knowing a roadmap for recovery can help.

With Dr. Kim McLear

Often times when we experience workplace abuse, we lose focus on who we are as people — in and out of the workplace.

Employers do not have the power to rob us of our dignity unless we give them that power. Learn how to navigate back to joy and all the vibrant ways we can dance with dignity. You’ve worked hard at work. Now it’s time to work hard at joy. Joy can come in many forms. Don’t lose hope. Bet on yourself.

With Dan Goodman

Dan Goodman is a fierce employee advocate who focuses on employment agreements, restrictive clauses, severance, performance improvement plans (PIPs), and more. He’ll answer your questions about the unwritten corporate rules so you know what’s really going on with your employer.

He combines a unique approach of business acumen, negotiating, and strategic coaching to help employees navigate the landmines of the corporate landscape to support and empower them to stand up for themselves.

With Dr. Mercedes Jimenez

There’s a big difference between what employers say their rules are and what actually happens inside organizations. Whether you are in a toxic work environment or in between jobs preparing to re-enter the workplace, don’t miss this opportunity to fill your employee toolbox.

End Workplace Abuse’s The Truth About Work Series is a four-part, survivor-centered journey that:

• Exposes the hidden dynamics of workplace abuse
• Explores the emotional and psychological toll on targets
• Provides practical strategies for protection
• Connects individual experiences to the urgent need for systemic and legislative change.

Through powerful storytelling, trauma-informed insights, and actionable guidance, this series equips participants to recognize abusive patterns, rebuild after harm, and join a growing movement committed to creating workplaces grounded in dignity, accountability, and true psychological safety.

With Dawn Johnson

Ever wonder why some workplace conflicts feel more calculated than random? Welcome to Bully Intelligence — your guide to decoding the tactics that workplace bullies use to undermine their targets. Like a chess player who can anticipate their opponent’s moves, understanding these patterns gives you the power to protect yourself and others. This eye-opening presentation pulls back the curtain on workplace bullying.

With Dr. Jennifer Fraser

In her new book The Gaslit Brain, Dr. Jennifer Fraser explores how gaslighting manipulates the brain—both in how it’s used and how it harms. Through neuroscience and psychology, she reveals how manipulators exploit trust, status, and credibility to distort reality, erode mental clarity, and even cause physical brain damage. As gaslighting infiltrates both personal and public life, understanding its effects has become essential for psychological safety.

With Kim Williams

Employers sidestep accountability for creating safe and respectful workplaces. From systemic flaws to behind-the-scenes maneuvers, this session will provide invaluable insights into the challenges workers face in holding organizations accountable. Learn:

Practical advice for navigating and protecting yourself within a system that often prioritizes profit over people

How laws governing workplace safety are created, implemented, and enforced

The backdoor conversations and strategies that occur at the highest levels of organizations to deflect responsibility

With Dr. Akilah Cadet and Danielle King

Workplace abuse does not affect everyone equally. Race, disability, gender, age, and other aspects of identity shape not only how discrimination is experienced but also how individuals are believed, protected, or silenced.

In this thought-provoking fireside chat, Dr. Akilah Cadet and Danielle King explore the intersection of workplace abuse, discrimination, and systemic inequity through both personal stories and broader societal trends. Together, they examine how oppressive workplace systems reinforce exclusion, how current cultural and policy shifts disproportionately impact marginalized communities, and why psychological safety is essential for equity at work.

Through an engaging conversation, they unpack what intersectionality looks like in real workplace settings, discuss emerging patterns affecting disabled and other historically marginalized employees, and share practical strategies for self-advocacy, resilience, and preserving one’s well-being while navigating harmful environments.

Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of how workplace abuse operates through an intersectional lens, greater awareness of the structural forces that perpetuate inequity, and actionable tools to advocate for themselves and others. Most importantly, this conversation invites participants to transform lived experience into meaningful action—creating workplaces and communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

With Sacha Thompson

Psychological safety is the foundation of a healthy workplace — yet many people work in environments where speaking up leads to punishment, questions are treated as threats, and toxic behaviors quietly take hold. This session breaks down what psychological safety really means, how to identify whether it exists in your organization, and the red flags that signal an unsafe or abusive environment. You’ll learn the core elements of psychological safety, why its absence enables bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, and how psychologically unsafe cultures allow workplace abuse to thrive.

With Dan Goodman

Dan Goodman is a fierce employee advocate who focuses on employment agreements, restrictive clauses, severance, performance improvement plans (PIPs), and more. He’ll answer your questions about the unwritten corporate rules so you know what’s really going on with your employer.

He combines a unique approach of business acumen, negotiating, and strategic coaching to help employees navigate the landmines of the corporate landscape to support and empower them to stand up for themselves.

With Dr. Mercedes Jimenez

There’s a big difference between what employers say their rules are and what actually happens inside organizations. Whether you are in a toxic work environment or in between jobs preparing to re-enter the workplace, don’t miss this opportunity to fill your employee toolbox.

With Kim Williams

Rather than simply telling people to document and report what happened, the Fair Path Project helps employees understand their legal options, assess an employer’s potential liability, plan what to say, and decide when to consult an attorney. Its developing tools include an interactive employment-law map, a database of workplace lawsuits and settlements, liability calculators, coaching through the FEAR NOT Framework, a bully-boss avatar for practicing difficult conversations, and a multi-state attorney referral network—all designed to give workers more information, strategy, and bargaining power.

With I. David Daniels

Our workplaces are making us sick from pressure, chaos, and people. Psychosocial hazards are the invisible forces that chip away at our health, confidence, and sense of safety at work. In this talk, Dr. I. David Daniels will explore how everyday dysfunctions like unclear roles, impossible deadlines, toxic leadership, and chronic instability don’t just feel abusive — they are harmful.

With Courtney Bickert

Laughter might not fix toxic workplaces—but it can help us survive them, outwit them, and occasionally throw some seriously elegant shade. In this interactive session, we’ll explore how humor builds resilience, restores composure, and helps us walk back into the boardroom (or HR meeting) with our heads high and our wit sharp. From mental health boosts to shared inside jokes about the absurdity of workplace drama, this is your invitation to heal, laugh, and reclaim your spark.

With Erin Latona

Most people enter a toxic workplace believing they can fix it — that if they work hard enough, speak up clearly enough, or endure long enough, things will improve. While change is possible, it is rare. Recognizing that reality is often the first and most important step in protecting yourself.

In this grounded and deeply practical session, participants will explore what it truly means to “exit well” from an abusive workplace — not as a failure, but as a strategic, self-protective decision.

Drawing from lived experience inside a high-level institutional environment, this talk unpacks the early signs of “soft targeting,” how retaliation escalates when accountability is introduced and why abuse often intensifies when external scrutiny begins. Attendees will gain clear, actionable strategies for documenting events, communicating effectively, and preserving both legal options and personal integrity throughout the process.

This session moves beyond theory into real-world application — equipping participants with the tools to mitigate professional risk, reduce emotional harm, and make informed decisions in high-stakes environments.

Grounded in the truth that workplace abuse is never the target’s fault, this talk offers something equally critical: a pathway to reclaiming agency, protecting your future, and leaving with your values intact.

With Deb Falzoi

Leaving a toxic work environment is rarely the end of the story. In fact, sometimes it feels like the beginning of another nightmare. We are often not aware of the full extent of the physical, mental, and emotional health harm that has occurred until after we leave. Feeling like our old self seems like an insurmountable task. We want to get our lives back on track and feel better but don’t know where to begin. Workplace abuse involves deep betrayal. We don’t feel safe. Our trust has been violated. Sometimes we don’t even trust ourselves. Our belief in a just world has been completely shattered. We find ourselves sick and unemployed. It does take time, but we CAN feel better. Recovery is possible for those who suffer from institutional betrayal. Knowing a roadmap for recovery can help.

With Amy Ebbeson, LCSW

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is highly affiliated with workplace abuse yet sadly, PTSD is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed by medical and mental health professionals not familiar with the dynamics of workplace abuse. Left untreated, trauma can have a lifelong impact. Please join trauma focused LCSW Amy Ebbeson and learn how to: 1) identify the symptoms of PTSD, 2) detach from the pain, and 3) learn ways to cope in the aftermath of workplace abuse. The good news: there is life beyond abuse.

With Dr. Kim McLear

Often times when we experience workplace abuse, we lose focus on who we are as people — in and out of the workplace.

Employers do not have the power to rob us of our dignity unless we give them that power. Learn how to navigate back to joy and all the vibrant ways we can dance with dignity. You’ve worked hard at work. Now it’s time to work hard at joy. Joy can come in many forms. Don’t lose hope. Bet on yourself.

With Lindsay Raé Perry

In the aftermath of chronic workplace abuse, many targets experience a deep emotional numbness—often labeled as apathy. But apathy isn’t the absence of care; it’s a protective mechanism, the body’s intelligent response to sustained harm. In this talk, Lindsay Raé Perry explores apathy as a survival strategy born from betrayal, burnout, and systemic silencing, particularly within marginalized communities. Through personal narrative and somatic insight, she offers a pathway to healing that begins not with pushing through but with listening to what our numbness is trying to protect.

With Dr. Jennifer Fraser

“There is extensive neuroscientific research on how ALL forms of bullying and abuse can and usually do physical harm to the brain. It can be seen on brain scans.”
— Dr. Jennifer Fraser

The workplace is rife with bullying and abuse, which can cause invisible brain injuries. Yet because our brains are remarkably adept at repairing all kinds of traumas and injuries, we can heal our scars and restore our health.

In The Bullied Brain, Dr. Jennifer Fraser shares evidence from doctors, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, and neuroscientists that shows:

How you can heal your neurological scars and restore your health

The harm done by bullying and abuse to your brain

With Stephen Tolfree

Many people who experience unfairness and injustice at work hold onto resentments without realizing the resentment holds them back from fully recovering their confidence, trust, and positivity. In this session, you’ll learn how letting go of resentment can help you fully recover your strength, bring you hope and peace, and return you to building a brighter future.

With Mercedes Swan

Workplace abuse doesn’t end when you leave a toxic job — it often follows you into your next opportunity, shaping how you search, what you tolerate, and what you believe you deserve.

In this powerful and practical session, Mercedes Swan, Career Love Coach, introduces the Toxic Job Cycle — a repeatable pattern many high-performing professionals unknowingly fall into after experiencing harmful work environments. She breaks down why this cycle occurs, how workplace trauma influences decision-making, and what it takes to interrupt it.

Through a blend of strategy and facilitated conversation, participants will learn how to identify red flags early, vet employers with confidence, and challenge the limiting beliefs that toxic workplaces often leave behind. This session also explores advanced job search strategies that prioritize alignment, safety, and long-term career fulfillment — not just landing the next role.

Grounded in the truth that workplace abuse is never the employee’s fault, this talk offers both validation and agency: while we are not responsible for the harm, there are steps we can take to protect ourselves moving forward.

With Lindiwe Davis

Speaking up in the workplace is often framed as courage — but rarely do we talk about the cost. In environments where truth-telling is punished, retaliation can strip away not just roles and opportunities, but identity, confidence, and a sense of belonging.

In this powerful and restorative session, participants will explore what it means to reclaim themselves after workplace harm. Moving beyond survival, this talk centers the process of rebuilding — separating identity from job titles, holding onto credibility and dignity in the face of retaliation, and understanding how tactics like gaslighting and isolation are used to maintain control.

Through reflection, shared insight, and practical strategies, attendees will learn how to rebuild professional confidence, reclaim their narrative, and resist internalizing the harm done to them. This session also highlights the role of community, storytelling, and advocacy as essential tools for healing and transformation.

Grounded in the belief that you are not what you lost, this conversation invites participants to reconnect with their expertise, integrity, and voice — and to move forward rooted in self-trust, not institutional validation.

With Kim Williams

Every year, millions of U.S. workers experience life-threatening, traumatic workplace abuse. The phenomenon has been dubbed a silent epidemic and is the largest employee exploitation to occur in the U. S. since the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 was enacted. End Workplace Abuse has brought thousands of formerly and presently targeted employees together to speak out against these cruel and inhumane workplace practices. The more of us come forward and speak out publicly, the safer we all are. Telling your story can help with the healing process and also serve as a powerful advocacy tool for yourself and others. Ready to go public with your story and/or get out the word about workplace abuse? Kim will give you a step-by-step guide on framing your personal story of workplace abuse and cover actionable advice for those looking to publish in the press and/or be a podcast guest.

With State Bill Directors

Targets of workplace abuse from 26 states plus Washington, DC, have stepped up as Workplace Psychological Safety Act bill directors to take on holding employers accountable for ensuring psychologically safe workplaces. To prevent others from suffering from betrayal from their employers as they did, bill directors use their personal pain for political action. In this talk, hear from some of our bill directors, who will reveal what it’s like for them to use their voices to both build collective power and take back their personal power to continue to heal.

With Deb Falzoi

If you’ve ever been told to “handle it better,” “be more professional,” or “trust the process,” this session is for you. Workplace abuse usually doesn’t persist because of one bad boss — it persists because systems are built to protect power, not people.

In this hour, Deb Falzoi breaks down how ordinary workplace processes (HR, investigations, performance reviews, “professionalism”) can quietly gaslight, isolate, and retaliate against targets of abuse — and why so many survivors feel like they’re the problem.

More importantly, you’ll learn what actually helps: how to spot systemic red flags, protect yourself, document strategically, find allies, and turn individual harm into collective power. You’ll leave with clarity, validation, and a stronger sense of how we move from surviving toxic workplaces to changing the rules that make them possible.

With Kelly Cooper

What actually fuels toxic culture — and why does it spread so predictably?

In this powerful and unfiltered talk, Kelly Cooper moves beyond surface-level conversations about “difficult leaders” to expose the systemic dynamics that allow toxic leadership to thrive. Drawing from her lived experience of workplace mobbing, she reveals the repeatable patterns used to consolidate power, suppress dissent, and normalize harmful behavior — patterns that quietly replicate across industries and sectors.

But this isn’t a story about victimhood. It’s a wake-up call for leaders.

With Dr. Nicole DeKay

We are experiencing a burnout crisis from harmful work practices that are harming American families. Burned-out parents are more likely to abuse and neglect their children creating more adversity in childhood. At a time when 50% of managers and 44% of employees are burned out, we need to find solutions that solve workplace dysfunction, overwork, and harm. Adverse childhood experiences are the largest unaddressed national health crisis facing our nation. Workplaces contribute to them and must be part of the solution to address this crisis.