Bully-Block Your Career
Essential Strategies for Your Well-being.
A practical guide for anyone who has been undermined, intimidated, or quietly sidelined at work.
Change is a skill, not a trait.
Behavioral science and hypnotherapy, combined into tools you can actually use — at work, on stage, and in the hardest conversations of your life.
Ph.D. Behavioral Psychology Certified Hypnotherapist Best-Selling Author
Free Assessment
Which beliefs are quietly running your decisions?
Twelve beliefs sit behind most of the stress people carry at work — about approval, competence, fairness, control. Dr. Daoust's Irrational Beliefs Scale measures how strongly each one has hold of you.
- 60 statements
- 12 beliefs measured
- ~10 minutes
- No email needed
Your answers are scored in your own browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is stored, and you get your results straight away.
The Library
Books by Dr. Daoust
Every title is available on Amazon. Companion workbooks and other editions are linked beneath the book they belong to.
The Power of a Stoic-Hypnotic Mindset
Achieving Business Success with Inner Strength
For readers working hard at a career or business who still feel like they are not making progress.
Your Mindfulness Journey
12 Easy Lessons to Release Stress and Live Your Best Life
Written for people who have tried mindfulness and concluded they must be bad at it.
Make Change Easy
Strategies From What We Know About Brain Science
Starts from the familiar pattern where a new habit goes well for a fortnight, then quietly collapses.
The 10 Best Practices for Managing Remote Workers
Supervising in the New Normal — Remote Working Is Here to Stay
A short, practical handbook for managers whose teams are no longer in one room.
Using Emotional Intelligence in Sales
Unlocking the Secrets of Your Subconscious — with Michael G. Eichten, CLU, ChFC
Built on the idea that everyone sells something, but few people do it well.
Conflict at Work
A toolkit for managing your emotions for successful results — Resolving Conflict, Book 1
The starting point of the Resolving Conflict series, and the only title with an audiobook.
I Can Speak
Conquering Fear and Building Confidence in High-Stakes Speaking Situations
For anyone who dreads presentations, interviews, or networking rooms.
About
Thirty years of behavior change, distilled.
Dr. M. Paula Daoust is a behavioral psychologist and author who helps people change the behaviors holding them back at work.
She holds a Ph.D. in behavioral psychology from the University of Kansas and is a certified hypnotherapist, and blends the two disciplines deliberately — using science to build an approach that is both effective and efficient.
Born and raised in Canada, she has made Kansas her home for many years. She has taught thousands of students leadership, business, and psychology at the master's level, and led a corporate leadership academy for over a decade.
- Ph.D. in Behavioral Psychology, University of Kansas
- Certified Hypnotherapist
- Expert in Performance Management
- Led a corporate leadership academy for over 10 years
- Eleven books published by MapleWheat Publishing
Working With Paula
Bring the research into the room.
Coaching, workshops, and keynotes — all grounded in behavioral science, and all built to send people away with something they can use on Monday.
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Coaching
For when a specific behavior or barrier is holding you back. One-to-one work aimed at a breakthrough you can sustain, rather than a burst of motivation that fades.
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Seminars & Workshops
Designed around what your team actually needs — conflict management, speaking under pressure, influence and sales skills. Face-to-face, self-paced, or by videoconference.
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Keynote Presentations
An inspirational session that leaves people with ideas, strategies, and tools they can use immediately — all based on behavioral science, not anecdote.
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Bulk & Book Clubs
Discounted bulk orders for teams and reading groups, with discussion guides and the option of a live author Q&A.
Free Resources
Recordings and Worksheets, Free with the Books.
Guided visualizations, self-hypnosis sessions, and printable worksheets that go with the books. Enter an email once and they all unlock.
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Bully-Block Your Career
Five sessions to work through in order - calming, affirmation, relaxation, empowerment, confidence.
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The Power of a Stoic-Hypnotic Mindset
Twelve self-hypnosis sessions, one per Stoic principle, plus the printable worksheets.
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Your Mindfulness Journey
The 24 recordings that accompany the book - a short briefing and a guided visualization for each of the twelve lessons.
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Conflict at Work
Guided sessions and printable worksheets for working through a difficult conversation.
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I Can Speak
Relaxation and visualization recordings for the hours before a high-stakes talk, plus the action checklist.
Stay in touch
New books, new tools, now and then.
Paula writes when there is something genuinely useful to say — a new book, a new tool, an idea worth trying. Not often, and never filler.
Get In Touch
Let's talk.
For speaking enquiries, coaching, bulk book orders, or media requests.
Speaking & Coaching
To check availability for a keynote, workshop, or coaching:
DrPaula@Behaviortransitions.com
By Phone
Prefer to talk it through?
785-633-6078