Johnny Crowder

Creator and Founder of COPE NOTES

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Johnny Crowder

Creator and Founder of COPE NOTES

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Why Book

Mental health CEO, entrepreneur, and brain changer, Johnny Crowder, tackles one of the most pressing strategic concerns in business today – employee wellbeing – and he reveals keys to creating a better workplace, headspace, and heartspace for all.
Johnny Crowder gives audiences practical self-care tools and mental health strategies that people can start using now to improve their emotional health and wellbeing.

Biography

The founder and CEO of the globally utilized positive psychology platform Cope Notes, Johnny Crowder shares practical mental health strategies that empower individuals to build resilience, improve emotional wellbeing, create meaningful human connections, and find greater fulfillment and purpose in both life and work.

With infectious positivity, humor, and authenticity, Johnny Crowder combines evidence-based psychology with powerful personal stories of overcoming his own adversity—trauma, poverty, anxiety, OCD, and depression. He helps audiences understand why mental health is not just a personal issue but a business imperative, and why the most successful organizations prioritize psychological safety, connection, and wellbeing. Audiences leave with actionable tools to manage stress, prevent burnout, develop a more positive mindset, and build the habits that support long-term personal growth, resilience, and workplace success.

Johnny’s TEDx talk has garnered more than one million views, and his refreshingly candid perspective has been featured by Forbes, CNN, Upworthy, and hundreds of other media outlets. Whether speaking to corporate leaders, healthcare professionals, educators, or frontline teams, Johnny delivers an inspiring and practical roadmap for improving mental health, unlocking human potential, and creating cultures where people can truly thrive.

Programs

Life Is Tough. So Are You: Building Resilience, Finding Purpose, and Turning Adversity Into Strength

Most people spend their lives trying to avoid hardship. Johnny Crowder learned how to transform it into purpose, resilience, and impact. In this powerful keynote on overcoming adversity, mental health, personal growth, and finding meaning in life and work, Johnny shares his remarkable journey from childhood trauma, abuse, poverty, and mental illness to becoming the founder of Cope Notes®, a positive psychology platform used in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Combining vulnerability, humor, and actionable insights, Johnny reveals how our greatest challenges can become our greatest strengths. Audiences discover how resilience is built, why adversity often fuels personal and professional growth, and how embracing difficult experiences can lead to stronger leadership, deeper human connection, greater fulfillment, and a renewed sense of purpose. This inspiring keynote leaves attendees empowered to rewrite their stories, overcome obstacles, and unlock the potential hidden within their struggles.

Attendees will learn how to:

Transform adversity, setbacks, and life challenges into sources of resilience, purpose, and personal growth
Identify the strengths, perspectives, and leadership qualities developed through hardship
Build deeper empathy, stronger relationships, and more meaningful connections through shared human experiences
Reframe challenges as opportunities for growth, fulfillment, and positive impact

Think Better, Perform Better: Positive Psychology, Mental Resilience, and Peak Performance Without Burnout

In today’s high-pressure world, stress, uncertainty, burnout, and negative thinking can undermine performance, wellbeing, and workplace success. Drawing on positive psychology, neuroscience, behavioral science, and the principles behind his TEDx Talk with more than one million views, Johnny Crowder shows audiences how to cultivate a resilient mindset, improve mental wellbeing, and achieve peak performance without sacrificing their mental health.

Far from promoting toxic positivity, Johnny provides a practical framework for developing optimism, emotional resilience, and mental fitness that supports better decision-making, stronger relationships, greater adaptability, and sustainable success. Through engaging stories, research-backed strategies, and actionable tools, audiences learn how to manage stress, overcome self-doubt, strengthen emotional wellbeing, and perform at their best in both life and work.

Attendees will learn how to:

Reduce the impact of negative thinking, cognitive distortions, and self-limiting beliefs
Build resilience, emotional wellbeing, and mental fitness for long-term success
Achieve peak performance while preventing burnout and protecting mental health
Use positive psychology strategies to improve productivity, creativity, adaptability, and workplace engagement
Develop a healthier mindset for navigating change, uncertainty, and professional challenges

The Leader’s Paradox: If I Have to Save the World, Then Who Saves Me?

Leaders are world-class at showing up for everyone else: Clients, employees, partners… the world around them gets their best, and they get the leftovers. But the sad truth is that unhealthy coping skills, chronic stress, and self-neglect are just as likely to kill workplace culture and career momentum as any other organizational challenge.

As the founder of a company now serving customers in over 100 countries, Johnny Crowder has lived the tension between the servant leadership required to build something meaningful and the internal self-commitment required to show up and do it all again tomorrow. In this candid, practical keynote designed specifically for leaders, he sheds light on what it actually costs to ignore your own mental and emotional health in pursuit of greatness, and what becomes possible when you finally prioritize your own peace.

Attendees will learn how to:

Recognize and assess their own mental and emotional state before denial turns a manageable problem into a costly one
Set boundaries that protect their balance, separating their sense of self-worth from their productivity and obligations to others
Build sustainable, healthy coping habits that replace the ones quietly working against them, so they can keep showing up as high performers at work and in life

The Punk Rock Guide to Entrepreneurship: Going From Zero to Millions Without Selling Your Soul

By embarking on any entrepreneurial journey, you’re signing up to fail – at least, that’s what the statistics warn. So what do you need to beat the odds? Outside capital? Ivy League degrees? Friends in high places? If that were the case, today’s Fobes list wouldn’t tout the infamous garage-to-NASDAQ stories that inspire scrappy DIY self-starters to pursue innovative new ideas. Johnny Crowder built a global mental health company without a business degree or even a business plan. But how did he leverage the skills he honed in his heavy metal music career to turn Cope Notes® into a worldwide force for good? In this empowering and tactical presentation, Johnny peels back the tech startup veil to teach your audience how to:

Differentiate between the nice-to-have and essential ingredients of a successful business
Identify and foster the types of mental and emotional strength that entrepreneurship demands
Apply mindset, focus, and resilience strategies that build stamina and scalable success

The Surprising Productivity of Self-Care: Using Mindfulness to Combat Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

48% of the U.S. workforce struggles with compassion fatigue. The result? Burnout, absenteeism, mental and emotional distress, poor sleep, unhealthy diets, reliance on dangerous coping mechanisms, and sky-high turnover, particularly in caring professions.

Empathetic and compassionate people are invaluable on any team. But when compassion makes it feel as if the weight of the world is on your shoulders, genuine empathy can devolve into unhappiness, unproductivity, and an inability to help the very people you care about in the first place. Mindfulness is one of the simplest and most practical tools for self-care, and Johnny shows audiences how to gradually make it an important part of anyone’s daily routine. Your audience will learn how to:

Identify the sources and symptoms of compassion fatigue
Rethink the assumptions that trigger impostor syndrome and guilt
Implement self-care strategies that drive a renewed sense of energy and purpose in the workplace and beyond

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Johnny Crowder Reviews

I just wanted to let you know that Johnny was AWESOME. He received a standing ovation, had our bankers, laughing and crying. He stayed after and had a very long line of people that wanted to chat with him and he was able to talk to everyone. He really touched everyone and I would highly recommend him. AMAZING!!!

— Director of Development, Kansas Bankers

After your presentation, I had MULTIPLE attendees come up to me and thank me for having you speak. Comments I heard were: “We really needed to hear this.” and “This needs to be talked about more.” and “Thank you for bringing this topic to the CEO group.” I will share your information with my peers at the other state banking associations via email, and then again when I see them in person this December during the “speaker share” portion of our conference.

— Director of Education and Conferences

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I’ve never seen a speaker drive such positive, energetic engagement in a virtual setting. Halfway through Q&A, my inbox was flooded with encore requests from our staff. Due to the demand, we invited him back a second time, and unsurprisingly, it was another smash hit. The impact Johnny’s talk has made on our company culture is still talked about to this day. He truly became part of the UMA family!

— Ultimate Medical Academy

“Johnny Crowder’s story touches everyone. His honesty with sharing his personal experience resonated throughout our attendees! Great delivery and
connection with the audience throughout his session! Highly recommend!”

— Florida Public Pension Trustees

We loved having you talk to us last week. You are as engaging and warm as I thought you’d be! Colleagues kept reaching out telling me how much they enjoyed it. Thank you, Johnny!

— Cambridge Associates

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Will Johnny do a pre-booking call to talk about the client’s needs and make sure there is alignment with what he brings to an audience?

Absolutely. He loves doing them and will always be candid, listen carefully, ask good questions and make sure everyone feels comfortable about moving forward.

2. Is Johnny’s content only for people living with a mental health diagnosis?

Johnny goes to great lengths to ensure that his presentations are inclusive of people of all ages and backgrounds, living with or without diagnoses, trauma, or firsthand experience with mental illness. This is especially important in large, relatively undifferentiated groups of varying levels of comfort with the topic of mental wellness.

3. Is Johnny’s style too casual or informal for more serious and professional crowds?

Johnny’s sense of humor and authenticity lend to his ability to distill complex and taboo psychological principles into plain English that anyone can understand. Even still, his formal education in psychology and expertise around the functions of the brain allow him to speak knowledgeably about mental wellness and neuroscience with audiences that demand more substance, making him a perfect fit for more clinically-minded crowds as well. He has spoken to several audiences of clinicians and professionals from the medical community.