Helping Workplaces Stay Resilient and Mentally Well

Headingley

Shannon Gander has a strong commitment to improving workplace mental wellness because she sees firsthand how it affects performance and personal happiness. In Headingley, she collaborates closely with teams, supervisors, and business leaders, trying to stay balanced amid daily challenges. Stress creeps in. Constantly putting on a brave face becomes draining. That’s where Life Work Wellness becomes a game changer. As an experienced mental health speaker, Shannon supports organisations with actionable approaches for mental strength, open dialogue, and a safer emotional environment—so employees can contribute with clarity and confidence, not stress and burnout.

Real Conversations on Wellness in Headingley

  • Wellness speaker Shannon Gander creates space for employees and leaders to break the silence around mental strain. From sessions on preventing burnout to supporting leaders under pressure, Shannon offers tools that touch both work life and personal wellbeing. Her guidance helps teams stay strong, even when the demands don’t let up.

  • You won’t find filler in her talks. Shannon speaks from experience, supported by mental health research and a career spent helping people cope. If your team in Headingley is ready to explore workshops for stress management, leadership development, or employee mental health, contact Shannon and bring the skills to make an impact.

  • Her message reaches where others don’t. She unpacks workplace anxiety, disconnection, burnout, and the toll of constant change—and she does so with empathy and clarity. As a corporate mental health speaker, Shannon helps people navigate emotional challenges while still showing up with strength and purpose.

  • Her approach is interactive, human, and emotionally intelligent. Shannon creates genuine connections, using her experience as a counsellor to shape each talk to meet the audience where they are. Every room feels different, and she responds accordingly.

Whether you’re planning a wellness day, a leadership retreat, or a focused mental health session in Headingley, Shannon delivers practical, compassionate insight. From tackling stress and emotional fatigue to fostering resilience and supporting leadership, she helps teams grow in ways that matter.

Workshops on Mental Health in Headingley

In Headingley, Shannon brings a wealth of insight and compassion to every room she enters. Her workshops on mental health, burnout prevention, and resilience at work are designed to speak directly to the real-world pressures people face daily. Whether she’s helping staff build strategies to manage stress at work or supporting leadership in recognising and responding to compassion fatigue, Shannon tailors every session to meet people where they are. She leaves behind outdated templates in favour of tools that feel useful and personal.

For managers and team leads, she delivers in-depth workshops for leaders on mental health and leadership training in stress management, showing how to support others without burning themselves out. Her workshops and keynotes for mental health and corporate wellness talks are engaging, research-based, and infused with her lived experience. Whether speaking online or to a live audience, Shannon delivers insights with warmth and depth. Her aim is clear: to empower individuals to walk away feeling uplifted, confident, and mentally prepared for what comes next.

In-person Mental Health Counselling in Headingley

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 Headingley 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 Headingley 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 Headingley, 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