Mind Share Partners

Mind Share Partners is changing the culture of workplace mental health so that both organizations and employees can thrive. Our mission is to build awareness, support, and acceptance in the workplace for people with mental health conditions and other experiences. We envision a world in which everyone can be open about their mental health challenges and accepted by others, enabling them to get the treatment that they need to thrive. And we hope to see employee mental health as a universal priority across organizations.

Mind Share Partners is changing the culture of workplace mental health by building public awareness, offering professional communities, and providing workplace training and strategic advising to leading companies. Our multi-pronged, evidence-based approach reflects research which shows that social contact, followed by peer support and education, are the most effective ways to normalize mental health conditions and reduce stigma.

Our public awareness activities include speaking engagements, events, survey research, and thought leadership on our blog, Forbes, and Thrive Global special section as well as features in other press and media. We have published over 50+ thought leadership pieces across our editorial platforms, and our Mind Share Partners Mental Health at Work 2019 Report in partnership with SAP and Qualtrics was covered by over 100+ media outlets. We have also organized two Mental Health at Work conferences and have spoken at several external events, podcasts, and live webinars hosted by companies like Pinterest, Harvard Business Review, and Gap, Inc.

Our professional community toolkit equips individuals with the basic skills and content to organize groups of professionals to share personal experiences, discuss challenges, and share strategies in regards to mental health in the workplace context. We also manage one of the first ever virtual communities for mental health employee resource groups (ERGs) where internal champions for mental health across companies can connect and support each other to create culture change within their respective organizations.

Finally, our training and advising services for companies take the form of in-person and virtual training tailored to a variety of audiences including executives, managers, specific teams, or all-staff. Our advising services include exploratory interviews, survey assessments, communications campaigns, leader ally coaching, policy review, and more. We also provide training to individuals through webinars, virtual training, and our Mind Share Partners Institute—an online certification program that equips individuals with the knowledge and skills to create a culture of support for mental health at their organization.

The Mind Share Partners team has a breadth of professional backgrounds and lived experiences that enable us to work effectively across sectors and industries to make a difference for people managing mental health challenges. Our team members have backgrounds in management consulting, entrepreneurship, the nonprofit sector, mental health, visual design, human-centered design, and marketing and communications. We also have a board and advisory council with industry experts and leaders on workplace mental health as well as a team of clinical advisors and legal advisors who review and validate the training and advising content that we provide.

Mind Share Partners’ competitive advantage is our expertise, tactical skill set, passion, and drive for impact that comes with being a nonprofit to support organizations in fostering mentally healthy work cultures. As demand from companies increases and new vendors emerge, Mind Share Partners continues to evolve our work to be on the cutting edge. Our approach is proactive and preventive with a DEIBJ lens, tailored to the specific needs of each organization’s culture. As a partner, we are uniquely positioned to support our clients' internal (culture) and external (public-facing) goals.

We meet employers where they are through custom strategy and measurement with flexible-format training. With leadership support being vital to the success of a workplace mental health strategy, we are differentiated in offering leader ally coaching in which we advise organizational leaders on how to talk about their personal experiences and be allies for mental health in an affirming and destigmatizing way.

Mind Share Partners publicly launched in May 2017 and remains one of the only nonprofits in the U.S. focused exclusively on changing the culture of workplace mental health.

As mental health overtakes COVID as the top health concern for Americans, we continue to see the workplace mental health movement grow in importance and sophistication. Mental health was once seen as an individual responsibility for employers to support through benefits and self-help tools. Now, we’re seeing more companies recognize that truly supporting mental health requires a shift in company culture. This means creating psychologically safe environments, reducing stigma, and promoting mentally healthy ways of working. 

Mind Share Partners is proud to be a pioneer in this burgeoning space, and to continue to deepen our support to help organizations create and sustain mentally healthy workplaces. 

In 2022, we grew our team and our collective voice as we help to shape the movement in its next phase.
Highlights include: 
- Continuing to build public awareness—including being chosen to provide feedback and contribute to the Surgeon General’s Framework for Mental Health & Well-Being in the Workplace as well as contributing three chapters to the HBR Guide to Better Mental Health at Work
- Creating timely free resources and toolkits
- Increasing membership by 40% in our free virtual mental health ERG community
- Launching an on-demand manager training module
- Adding employee offsite training to our custom training and advising services