Speaking

Dr. Jessi Gold Discusses “Should You Quit Your Job” at the Women In Medicine Conference In Chicago, 2023

Dr. Jessi Gold is a sought-after international speaker known for her mix of personal storytelling and research to make mental health topics tangible and help people feel less alone.

She is available in person and virtually for panels, lectures, and conversations on a wide variety of mental health topics.

To schedule a speaking engagement with Jessi Gold, MD, MS, please contact Emily Varga, Senior Lecture Agent, Simon and Schuster Speakers Bureau, at emily.varga@simonandschuster.com, or click here for more information. 


Dr. Gold on the “Being A Positive Light” panel at the Rare Beauty Mental Health Summit, 2024

Here are a few of her favorite topics:

  • How Do You Feel? One Doctor’s Search for Humanity in Medicine 
  • Workplace mental health: Wellness, moral injury, and burnout, particularly among healthcare workers, university faculty, journalists, and people in the entertainment industry
  • College mental health: Interventions for culture change and wellbeing on campuses; The mental health crisis on campus
  • Mental health advocacy and reporting: Using writing for the popular press and other forms of media, including social media; mental health in journalism, including suicide safety guidelines
  • Social media and mental health: Exploring social media’s impact on our mental health and how to mindfully use it
  • Telling your own mental health story: Using vulnerability and storytelling (including her own) to change culture, decrease stigma, and normalize help seeking, especially for
  • popular figures, leaders, and celebrities
  • Taking care of ourselves while taking care of others: Self-care and creating a culture of caring, including how to talk to a child/friend/coworker about their mental health
  • What is [insert mental health condition here] and how to manage it: Recognizing signs and symptoms and identifying coping strategies and other treatments for stress, burnout, and other mental health conditions

Keynote, Restoring Wellness, MedFluencers Event, 2023. Photo by: 4thFLR

Dr. Gold has spoken within multiple settings, including but not limited to academic centers, hospitals, industries, advocacy organizations, journalism, and entertainment. 

Some examples of previous engagements include: 

Panel With American Medical Association President Jesse Ehrenfeld, Restoring Wellness, MedFluencers Event, 2023. Photo by: 4thFLR