Building Resilient Careers and Organizations.™
Publications
Table of Contents
Books
How to be Resilient in Your Career: Facing Up to Barriers at Work, February 2023, Routledge, a division/imprint of Taylor & Francis
Newspaper Articles
Women in science and medicine face vicious online hate for speaking publicly about COVID-19 (Cited in Report on Business, Dec. 21, 2021)
How to navigate career advancement in the new world of hybrid work (Cited in Report on Business [print edition], p. B10, July 13, 2021).
Can Getting a Divorce Help Your Career (Cited in the Report on Business, Globe and Mail; 2015)
Black psychologists say there are too few of them in Canada — and that’s a problem (September 1, 2021)
For BIPOC employees, remote work meant a welcome break from office microaggressions (November 29, 2021)
How to be Resilient in Your Career on “In Town and Out with Giacomo Panico” on CBC Radio (March 18, 2023)
Absolutely unprecedented’ demand for help in Ottawa as COVID-19 takes toll on mental health, Jon Willing, January 17, 2022.
Magazine Articles
Photo taken during a visit to CFB Petawawa
How to Transition from Military to Civilian Work (Esprit de Corps Magazine, 2016)
Is Cyber Security Ever Enough? (FrontLine Security, 2016)
Corporate Security Hinges on its People (FrontLine Security, 2017)
Radio Interviews
Radio interview on December 2, 2018, with Dahlia Kurtz on, discussing the Challenges of Finding a Job When You’re a More Mature and Experienced Employee (e.g., an employee at the GM Oshawa plant, or one of GM’s suppliers).
On Wed. Dec. 15, 2021, I spoke with The Career Buzz Show host Nicole Hamilton about the field of Psychology in Canada. We discussed strategies for gaining admission to competitive programs and some of the challenges of lacklustre representation. Listen here.
Television
Podcasts
The Insider Threat Podcast (Invited Guest on 30-minute Podcast, Washington, DC 2017)
- Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Podcast Episode – Racism in the Workplace. Click here to listen. Published on June 12, 2020.
- CPA Black History Month Profile of Dr. Helen (Feb. 2021)
- CPA Black History Month Profile of Dr. Helen (Feb. 2022)
“How Women Over 50 Can Build Resilient Careers” was published on Nov. 15, 2022. Among other topics, we discuss how women who are over 50 years of age are often underestimated and can be passed over for promotions, especially if they don’t exhibit much ego or a big personality in the workplace.
eBooks
Free 21-page eBook, published in 2021 by the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP). Pro-Social I-O Psychology: Highlighting Pro-social Work Across All Sectors (2021). Pro-social I-O work utilizes the research and practice of I-O psychology to benefit individuals and society as a whole. The section about Dr. Helen Ofosu’s work starts on p. 9.