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Brandon Area

Shannon Gander champions workplace mental health because she knows its impact extends far beyond the office. Serving the Brandon Area, she partners with leaders, employees, and teams navigating the strain of today’s demanding work culture. Stress builds up silently, and people often feel isolated while pretending everything is fine. As a respected mental health speaker, Shannon helps organizations foster emotional well-being, strengthen communication, and ensure psychological safety—so employees can contribute fully without the risk of burnout.

How Shannon Inspires Resilience and Wellbeing in Workplaces Across the Brandon Area

  • Shannon is a highly regarded wellness speaker in the Brandon Area, known for helping people cut through the mental clutter they often carry in silence. From burnout prevention workshops and stress management strategies to leadership training on navigating change, she provides practical tools and insights employees can use daily, not only for their careers but for a healthier, more balanced life overall.

  • Shannon’s approach is all about substance. Her mental health and stress management keynotes blend research-backed insights with powerful real-life stories, delivered in a relatable and uplifting way. Whether you’re seeking in-person mental health sessions, workshops for leaders, or strategies for thriving at work, Shannon helps organizations across the Brandon Area create a culture of positivity and resilience that lasts long after the session ends. So, contact her to inspire positivity in your employees.

  • Every talk Shannon delivers is filled with heart and purpose. She speaks openly about burnout, stress, workplace connection, and thriving through change. These aren’t just talks—they’re transformational moments your team needs to maintain a healthy work-life balance. As a corporate mental health speaker, she equips employees with tools to manage anxiety and perform at their best, even under pressure.

  • Shannon’s style is interactive, approachable, and highly engaging. She thrives on seeing those “aha” moments when her message truly resonates. Her counselling background gives her a deep understanding of her audience’s mindset, allowing her to share advice they can easily connect with and apply in real situations. Her sessions create meaningful shifts in thinking and behaviour.

Planning a company-wide event or a focused leadership gathering in the Brandon Area? Shannon creates experiences that feel impactful, personal, and tailored to your needs. From preventing burnout and building resilience to guiding leaders through workplace challenges, she’s committed to fostering mental wellbeing and stronger, healthier workplaces.

Effective Workshops and Keynotes in the Brandon Area

At the core of Shannon’s work is a passion for helping people succeed without sacrificing their mental health. Based in the Brandon Area, she delivers engaging workshops on burnout prevention, mental health, and resilience in the workplace. These sessions are designed to give employees practical tools and leaders strategies for guiding teams without burning themselves out.

Her corporate wellness workshops and keynotes are grounded in research and experience, ensuring every session is informative, energizing, and impactful. Whether speaking at an event or online, Shannon uses her approachable style and deep understanding of mental health to create sessions that resonate and inspire meaningful change.

In-person Mental Health Counselling in the Brandon Area

There are times when life feels heavier than it should, and talking to someone in person, face to face, in a quiet and safe space, can make all the difference. Shannon offers in-person mental health workshops in the Brandon Area for those feeling overwhelmed by stress, tangled in anxiety, or simply trying to hold it all together. Her approach is warm and calm, not clinical, to help people feel more grounded, more themselves. With years of experience supporting others through workplace burnout, emotional fatigue, and personal transitions, she gently guides each conversation with care. These sessions are private and deeply thoughtful. Whether you're struggling with work-life balance, difficult emotions, or just need space to breathe, this is a place to start feeling better without judgment and without pressure.

Shannon Gander

Mental Health and Wellness Services

Shannon provides comprehensive wellness support for individuals and organizations to focus on mental health, resilience, and create a healthy organizational culture. Her services help employees and leaders thrive by improving productivity and reducing absenteeism. Whether it’s individual counselling, team workshops, or a leadership conference, Shannon is committed to supporting your journey to better well-being and a more resilient workforce.

Workplace Mental Health Speaker

Workshops & Keynotes

Shannon's sessions are relevant, practical and packed with takeaway skills without overwhelming her audience. Whether she is speaking on resilience, psychological health and safety, stress or change, participants can expect to reflect, learn and laugh.

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Mental Health Counsellor

Counselling

Sometimes in life, we need support to get on track. Other times, we have something more substantial to heal to help us in our relationships and to move forward. Reaching out is resourceful.

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Why Choose Shannon for Work Life Balance

Shannon does not just talk about balance; she lives it, and she helps others find their version of it, even when life and work feel completely unmanageable. Her mental wellness sessions in the Brandon Area speak to the reality many people face: trying to keep it all together while feeling pulled in too many directions. She makes her audience feel seen and less alone in the struggle. That is why so many choose her to guide conversations around work-life balance, stress at work, and building resilience in the workplace, because she makes the tough stuff feel manageable.

Through her work as a mental health speaker and corporate wellness facilitator in the Brandon Area, she helps people slow down, take a breath, and learn small shifts that make a real change. Shannon knows how horrible anxiety at work, compassion fatigue and burnout feel. Her workshops for mental health and leadership training are not cookie-cutter. They are thoughtful, practical, and full of moments that stick with you even after the event ends. People trust her because she gets it, and she shows up with empathy and strength every single time.

What Do Clients Say About Shannon

“Shannon is energetic, enthusiastic and very knowledgeable. Excellent professional development for anyone! I started to use the skills she taught that same night and they worked!”

— Participant - Fry No More - Resilience Skills for Stress, Uncertainty & Positive Mental Health

“Everyone should take your workshops! I came to learn skills for work and I am taking away so much more. What I learned will help me as a co-worker, parent and partner. Thank you Shannon for this valuable information.”

— Participant - The 3 Be's for Positive Mental Health

“Shannon is funny, knowledgeable & relatable! Everyone should hear her messages. She will give you a toolkit that is practical and makes you a better team member. Shannon shared great information and excellent messages.”

— Participant - Thriving People - Flourishing Teams

“This is the first time since the pandemic started that I have felt normal and like I will be okay. This workshop was exactly what I have needed. I will practice the skills Shannon taught to help reduce my anxiety and bolster my resilience.”

— Participant - Virtual Fry No More Resilience Training Session

“I really like that you talk about the importance of recognizing burnout as cultural and that there are actions we can all take to address this. I will definitely be more aware when I am mentoring burnout!”

— Participant - Balance, Really? Helping Leaders Prevent Employee Burnout in an Unbalanced World

Shannon Gander

Mental Health Speaker - Trainer - Counsellor
Winnipeg, MB Canada
1 (204) 794-5874
shannongander@lifeworkwellness.ca