CONSULTING
Led by Heather Wokusch, we specialize in tailored solutions for:
- developing effective measures for conflict prevention and resolution
- optimizing change processes, including during times of disruption
- creating leaner and more agile operational models
- executing leadership, management and cultural roadmaps
- promoting engagement and measurable productivity in remote teams
- designing and implementing successful learning development strategies
- establishing successful employee hiring, management and retention methods
- implementing inclusive analytics and sustainable gender mainstreaming
- building strategic communications campaigns with measurable results
Burnout
Rates of burnout rose dramatically during the pandemic and remain of concern. At the workplace, that can mean reduced productivity and retention.
Widespread cost-cutting measures, related layoffs, hiring freezes and reduced budgets for staff support services are making matters worse.
We have developed a highly-effective, tailored solution preventing and mitigating burnout on individual and organizational levels.
Read our guest blog for the Global Mental Health Action Network
Humanitarian
Hundreds of millions of people across the world have limited access to the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) they urgently require.
Those living in poverty and conflict are at heightened risk.
In the spirit of Sustainable Development Goal 17, we develop field-based, multi-stakeholder partnerships to mobilize knowledge and resources.
Our mission is to close treatment gaps, increase mental-health literacy, reduce stigmatization and mitigate trauma in humanitarian settings via:
Innovative workshops
Human-centered design
Multimedia learning
Reaching last-mile
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
We support local populations in transforming their lessons learned from lived experience into multimedia, self-care solutions scalable to last-mile settings.
An example is our Humanitarian Community Life project delivering psychological first aid training and solutions to vulnerable populations in Syria and Yemen. We collaborate with a Kenyan NGO developing holistic, social-healing interventions for collective trauma.
MESPERO is currently developing a project to provide scalable solutions for dealing with trauma connected to forced migration and/or human trafficking.
ABOUT
MESPERO was founded by Heather Wokusch during the pandemic to scale impactful mental health solutions, both in the business world and in humanitarian settings.
Since then, we’ve implemented projects for multinationals, educational institutions, and international NGOs – including projects in disadvantaged areas on a pro bono basis.
On business consulting, we partner with organizational-development leaders across the globe on a topic/project basis.
For MHPSS, we closely collaborate with the International Forum for Understanding (IFOUND) and its Team of multidisciplinary and intergenerational experts.