Calissa Ngozi
Keynote Speaker | Niagara Falls, Ontario
Professor, Resilience, Burnout Prevention & Workplace Wellness
Mental Health Expert
Calissa Ngozi Expertise Peak Performance, Mental Health, Health & Wellness, Health Performance, Leadership, Personal Leadership, Burnout Prevention, Resilience & Adversity and Stress Management.
About Calissa Ngozi
Calissa Ngozi is a mental health expert, Child and Youth Care Professor, keynote speaker, and bestselling author recognized for her work in resilience, burnout prevention, and accessible mental health care. She brings more than twenty years of professional experience across mental health, education, hospital care, acquired brain injury rehabilitation, and private practice. Calissa Ngozi is a Professor at Mohawk College and a mental health business owner working in partnership with Bartimaeus Inc. She is the creator of the Oxygen Mask Mindset and the author of The Oxygen Mask Mindset: Reclaiming Your Energy in a World That Glorifies Exhaustion. Her work has earned six speaking awards, national media recognition, and a nomination for the 2025 Ontario Premier Award.
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CALISSA NGOZI BIOGRAPHY
Calissa Ngozi is a mental health expert, Child and Youth Care Professor, keynote speaker, and bestselling author specializing in resilience, burnout, and sustainable performance. Her work spans more than two decades across mental health, education, hospital systems, acquired brain injury rehabilitation, and private practice. Calissa Ngozi is a Professor at Mohawk College, where she teaches and mentors students preparing for careers in child and youth care and related human services fields. Her academic work emphasizes applied practice, ethical care, and long term workforce sustainability.
Alongside her academic role, Calissa Ngozi is a mental health business owner working in collaboration with Bartimaeus Inc. She provides mental health and behaviour support services to individuals and families navigating complex personal and systemic challenges. Calissa Ngozi is the creator of the Oxygen Mask Mindset, a practical framework that addresses burnout, energy depletion, and chronic stress in caregiving and high responsibility roles. The approach is grounded in professional practice and lived experience.
She is the author of The Oxygen Mask Mindset: Reclaiming Your Energy in a World That Glorifies Exhaustion, an Amazon number one bestselling book focused on sustainable self leadership and mental health resilience. Calissa Ngozi is a certified trainer in Non Violent Crisis Intervention and holds professional certifications in suicide prevention and intervention. Her expertise supports organizations seeking trauma informed and safety focused mental health strategies.
Her leadership extends to governance and advocacy within the mental health sector. Calissa Ngozi previously served as a board director with the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care and currently serves on the Pathstone Mental Health Foundation Board. Her professional contributions have been recognized through multiple honours, including six awards for inspirational speaking and the RBC Black Diamond Ball Award. She has also been named a nominee for the 2025 Province of Ontario Premier Award.
Calissa Ngozi is a sought after conference host, master of ceremonies, workshop facilitator, and keynote speaker for mental health, education, corporate, and community based audiences. Her presentations focus on resilience, burnout prevention, workplace mental health, and sustainable success. She is a finalist of Speaker Slam, North America’s largest inspirational speaking competition, reflecting her ability to deliver structured, practical, and engaging presentations.
Calissa Ngozi is a trusted television and media guest expert with regular appearances across CP24, CTV Your Morning, Global News, Breakfast Television, The Social, CHCH, and SiriusXM. Her commentary addresses mental health, stress, parenting, and system level care. Her perspective is informed by lived experience as a Black woman adopted into a white family and as a mother of twins. This background informs her approach to inclusion, equity, and accessibility in mental health care.
Calissa Ngozi is widely recognized for integrating professional expertise with practical application. Her work supports individuals, organizations, and systems seeking sustainable approaches to mental health and resilience. Her mission is to contribute to a future where mental health care is accessible, inclusive, and grounded in evidence, education, and lived understanding.
Calissa Ngozi Topic Presentations
Calissa Ngozi Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
Oxygen Mask Mindset: Reclaiming Your Energy in a World That Glorifies Exhaustion
Leading without Burning out: The Oxygen Mask Blueprint for High-performance Teams
Burn Bright, Not Burnt out: The Oxygen Mask Mindset for Entrepreneurs
Always On, Always Selling: Burnout, Boundaries & Peak Performance
Compassion without Collapse: Beating Burnout & Compassion Fatigue
Neurospicy & Thriving: Navigating Business, Burnout & Success with an Invisible Disability
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