Johnny Crowder

Johnny Crowder is the Founder and CEO of Cope Notes, a text-based mental health platform delivering daily support to users in nearly 100 countries. A suicide and abuse survivor, Certified Recovery Peer Specialist, and widely recognized advocate, he brings both lived experience and professional expertise to conversations around mental health, resilience, and recovery.

Known for his candid delivery and grounded perspective, Johnny speaks on mental health support, peer recovery, and real-world strategies for navigating hardship with clarity, care, and consistency. His work spans healthcare systems, employers, government agencies, and global audiences.

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Founder of Cope Notes and Mental Health Advocate

Johnny Crowder is the Founder and CEO of Cope Notes, a text-based mental health platform that provides daily support to individuals, employers, healthcare systems, and government agencies in nearly 100 countries. His work is grounded in both professional training and lived experience as a suicide and abuse survivor.

He is a Certified Recovery Peer Specialist with more than a decade of peer support and public advocacy experience through the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Backed by years of clinical treatment and a background in psychology, Johnny has dedicated his career to expanding access to consistent, scalable mental health support.

Speaker, Musician, and Voice for Lived Experience

Since his first keynote in 2011, Johnny has delivered a candid and relatable perspective that resonates across industries and audiences. His TEDx talk has reached over a million viewers, and his insights have been featured by outlets including Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN World.

In addition to his speaking work, Johnny is a touring musician with a Billboard-charting heavy metal band. Across stages and formats, he combines honesty, humor, and firsthand experience to offer practical insight into managing mental health challenges and building resilience.

To hire Johnny Crowder for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format and program goals. Johnny Crowder is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats and virtual programs.

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The cost to book Johnny Crowder depends on the event date, location, format, audience size and scope of the appearance. Johnny Crowder’s speaking fee ranges from $12,500 to $17,500. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings and virtual programs.

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Johnny Crowder brings audiences an honest, practical conversation about mental health, resilience, and emotional wellbeing at work. Drawing on his own lifelong mental health journey and the creation of his science-backed support program, Cope Notes, he gives people clear strategies they can use to navigate challenges, support one another, and build healthier, more connected workplace cultures.

Common keynote themes include: mental health at work, resilience, vulnerability, emotional wellbeing, burnout prevention, compassion fatigue, self-care, authenticity, entrepreneurship, mindset, and sustainable success.

Beyond Coping: How to Foster Resilience, Connection, and Happiness in the Workplace

An actionable keynote on building healthier workplace cultures through resilience, support, and straightforward conversations about mental health.

In this presentation, Johnny Crowder shows why talking about mental health should be as straightforward as talking about physical health, even in the workplace. Using insights from his own journey and the development of Cope Notes, he shares practical ways to rethink challenges, support emotional wellbeing, and strengthen connection across teams. Audiences leave with clear steps for creating work environments that support confidence, relationships, and happiness.

• Rethink and reframe professional and personal challenges as they arise
• Build work cultures that proudly prioritize and support mental health for all
• Process mental and emotional distress in ways that strengthen relationships, confidence, and happiness

Ideal for audiences looking to address burnout, isolation, absenteeism, and disengagement while building a healthier workplace culture.

Radical Vulnerability: An Unconventionally Candid Conversation about Building Mental Wellness

A candid and engaging talk on how vulnerability supports resilience, authenticity, and better self-care.

Johnny explores the pressure many people feel to appear fine, steady, and unaffected, especially in leadership and professional settings. He explains why hiding emotional health challenges does not build resilience, and how self-acceptance, honesty, and vulnerability can help people process pain and move forward in healthier ways. This session gives audiences a more human framework for building emotional resilience in work and life.

• Leverage past hardships for the benefit of others
• Work toward being truthful and authentic in even the most challenging situations
• Process mental and emotional distress in ways that build relationships, confidence, and happiness

Ideal for leaders, teams, and organizations that want to encourage authenticity, emotional resilience, and healthier conversations around mental wellness.

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

An empowering talk on the mindset, focus, and resilience required to build something meaningful and sustainable.

Johnny shares how he built a global mental health company without a business degree or a business plan, and how lessons from his heavy metal music career shaped his approach along the way. This presentation focuses on the mental and emotional strength entrepreneurship demands, helping audiences separate what matters most from what only looks impressive. It is both encouraging and tactical for builders trying to with stamina and purpose.

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

Ideal for entrepreneurs, founders, and business creators who want a practical perspective on building with clarity, resilience, and purpose.

Closing Takeaway

At the center of Johnny Crowder’s work is a simple idea: when people have practical tools to talk about mental health, process challenges honestly, and support one another, they are better equipped to build resilience, stronger relationships, and healthier cultures at work and beyond.