Wayne Corneil

Wayne Corneil

Dr. Wayne Corneil is an Adjunct Professor in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. He teaches at the postgraduate level on Crisis Leadership, Organizational Continuity and Resilience. He conducts research and program evaluation on psychosocial interventions and on individual and organizational resilience. More recently he has been looking at the implementation of hybrid workplaces. He has been a principal investigator on the APEX Executive Work and Health Studies from 1995 to the current 2024 iteration.

Dr. Corneil provides consulting including the facilitation of courses and training sessions to public and private sector organizations on mental health in the workplace, creating psychologically safe workplaces, resilience, psychosocial preparation for retirement, and crisis leadership.

He spent 32 years in a variety of senior positions in Health Canada at the regional, national and international levels with responsibilities for Occupational Safety & Health, Quarantine and Emergency Health Services.

For twenty years up to 2009, he had a private clinical practice for emergency response personnel, healthcare practitioners, executives and senior officials specializing post-traumatic stress disorders and work-related stress and burnout. Dr. Corneil has doctorate in Epidemiology and Occupational Health Psychology from the Johns Hopkins University and has professional degrees in psychotherapy, social work, criminology and adult education.