The Consultant Playbook: Turning 2026 Workforce Mental Health Trends into Client Strategy
January 29, 2026 at 10:30 AM PST/1:30 PM EST
In this session, we’ll move beyond trend awareness to focus on how you can interpret risk, evaluate mental health solutions, and advise clients navigating rising mental health leaves, AI-driven change, caregiver stress, neurodiversity, manager burnout, and increasing pressure to prove ROI.
What you’ll learn
The 2026 Workforce Mental Health Trends are reshaping how employers think about care, but benefit consultants are the ones clients turn to for direction. This webinar is designed specifically to help you translate these trends into clear client guidance and smarter benefit strategy.
In this session, we’ll move beyond trend awareness to focus on how you can interpret risk, evaluate mental health solutions, and advise clients navigating rising mental health leaves, AI-driven change, caregiver stress, neurodiversity, manager burnout, and increasing pressure to prove ROI. Attendees will leave with practical frameworks, client-ready talking points, and a clearer point of view on how to guide employers through uncertainty. This isn’t a trends recap—it’s a consultant playbook.
You’ll walk away able to:
- Identify where your clients may be misreading workforce mental health risk and how to course-correct them before it shows up in cost, leave, or retention.
- Pressure-test mental health solutions with a sharper lens, including what to look for (and push back on) around AI, specialty care, and caregiver support.
- Confidently frame mental health ROI in terms that resonate with both HR and finance, tying benefits strategy to performance, productivity, and talent outcomes.
Dr. Joe Grasso
Vice President, Workforce Transformation, Lyra Health
Laura Collymore
Head of Consulting Relations, Lyra Health