SERVICES

Consulting

Brendan offers consulting services for a diverse range of clients, both locally and internationally, across the non-profit and for-profit sectors. His expertise supports organizations in effectively reaching, engaging, and empowering their male audiences, clients, and employees. Many of his clients are school districts and individual schools (public and private) aiming to enhance students' social-emotional wellbeing or address specific challenges related to boys, including academic underachievement, social-emotional resilience, gang involvement, substance misuse, sexism, and violence.

Schools most commonly seek Brendan’s guidance for two key reasons:

  1. They want practical strategies to better support male students' social, emotional, and academic growth.

  2. They are experiencing an increasing gender divide, often with male students feeling misunderstood and female students feeling harassed or unsafe around certain male peer groups, and they seek to foster healthier gender dynamics within their school environment.

Previous Consulting Services Include:

  • Conducting needs assessments

  • Developing and implementing context-specific action plans and social-emotional resources. This includes:

    • Designing and running social-emotional boys and mens groups

    • Training staff to lead and facilitate gender-conscious social-emotional groups (single sex and all gender groups)

    • Writing custom research reports summarizing the relevant academic literature to better understand and engage your desired male audience

    • Creating and delivering customized workshops for employees on practical ways to support their mental health and/or the social-emotional wellbeing of their students

    • Creating lesson plans, unit plans and support guides/handbooks

    • Procuring resources

  • Research & Assessments: Helping organizations measure the impact of programs supporting boys and men’s mental health or gender equality, using both qualitative and quantitative assessment methods, and communicating findings to stakeholders through reports

Talks + Workshops

Brendan delivers talks and leads workshops on a range of topics related to masculinity, social-emotional learning, mental health, and gender equality. These sessions are available for all-gender or single-gender groups and are customized for three main audiences:

  • The general public and organizations

  • Teachers and parents

  • Students (middle school, high school, and university-aged)

His workshops are highly interactive, incorporating hands-on activities, personal reflection, and practical tools that participants can apply in real life. Most of his keynote talks are tailored to meet the unique needs of each audience, but here is a brief overview of his three main talks:

  1. The Future of Masculinity, Men, and Gender Equality
    Explore the evolving landscape of masculinity as this talk explores how societal shifts have led to polarized perspectives about masculinity, men, and gender equality. Discover the opportunities, challenges, and pathways for transformation and healing as societies and individuals struggle between learning, unlearning, and relearning.

  2. The Hidden (and not so hidden) Lives of Teenage Boys: Dismantling Stereotypes and Providing Support
    Gain a deep understanding of the issues teenage boys face, both visible and hidden. Learn practical and positive ways to support the teenage boys in your life, fostering their wellbeing, resiliency, and healing.

  3. How We Get Disconnected From Ourselves & Why Reconnection Matters
    When did you first start disconnecting from parts of yourself? This talk is a compassionate and introspective exploration of personal identity, grounded in research on psychological and social-emotional development. Emphasis is placed on how gender-related expectations can lead to suppressed and disconnected versions of ourselves. Learn why reconnection matters and how to cultivate it.

Previous Talks/Workshops Include:

  • Supporting Boys in Schools:
    From Emotional Understanding to Positive Action

  • Men and Mental Health

  • Re-Visiting Masculinity: For Ourselves and the Students We Teach

  • The Importance of Emotional Self-Reflection for Teachers

  • The “Boy Crisis” in Education: Perspectives & Strategies

  • When Masculinity & Christianity Intersect

  • Teaching A New Masculinity?

  • Unrestricting Emotions: A first step in gender equality with adolescent males

  • Mental Health in Youth: Anxiety and Depression

  • Let’s Talk About Andrew Tate

  • Understanding Anger