Help Your People Flourish
Let’s Create a Healthier Workplace Together
Support your team’s well-being, productivity, and long-term success with tailored coaching, workshops, and well-being facilitation.
As a lawyer and well-being advocate, I’ve helped legal professionals and corporate teams navigate burnout, improve balance, and reconnect with meaning in their work. Through custom coaching and facilitation, I support organizations in creating environments where people thrive.
Here’s how we can work together:
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Workshops: Beyond Burnout and Free to Flourish (customizable)
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1-on-1 Coaching: For leaders or team members needing focused support
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Upcoming Book: Free to Flourish: Cultivate Work-Life Harmony for Success and Happiness – great as a team resource
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Consultation: I’ll meet with your team to determine the best approach for your people and culture
What Coaching Can Do For Your Organization?
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Boost employee engagement & retention
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Address employee stress, anxiety, burnout & minimize incidents of stress leave
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Attract new & top talent
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Cultivate healthy relationships at work & at home
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Bolster culture & team morale
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Help employees develop interpersonal & other skills often overlooked by goal-oriented professionals
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Support employees to build a career that is impactful & fulfilling
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Nurture career advancement & professional growth
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Foster change, challenge & focus
EMPOWERING ORGANIZATIONS: FACILITATION
toxic-Resilience & resilience culture flaws
Resilience is the capacity to bounce back from setbacks, adapt to change, and keep moving forward despite challenges. Culturally, this ability is often elevated to an ideal—what we might call “resilience culture,” which promotes the belief that enduring hardship and pushing through adversity are defining traits of success. Resilience culture reinforces the idea that the best and brightest are those who can withstand stress, adapt quickly, and keep going. While resilience is valuable, this idea can pressure individuals to ignore their limits and equate worth with endurance rather than holistic growth and fulfillment.
For many of us with Success Mindset, the unchecked pressure to thrive can result in what I call “toxic resilience”—the pattern of enduring stress to the point of self-neglect. We are told and can tell ourselves to be tough, dig deep, persevere, or just suck it up at all costs. We can force ourselves to adapt to not only difficult, but sometimes toxic environments. And when we struggle to adjust with a smile on our face, we’re left with feelings of inadequacy and shame. For some of us, the pressure to conform to resilience culture can become an additional burden, compounding the stress we already carry.
Toxic resilience—the habit of pushing through stress without addressing underlying needs—can have profound negative effects on our personal and professional lives. This mindset often leads to chronic exhaustion, reduced productivity, and burnout, diminishing work quality and career satisfaction. Ignoring stress can also contribute to mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression that can manifest physically causing serious health problems. Additionally, toxic resilience can strain personal relationships, foster a harsh Inner Critic, and erode self-compassion, leaving us disconnected from our support systems and personal well-being. Over time, the relentless grind of ignoring stress can impair decision-making and reduce career longevity, forcing many of us to leave our chosen profession prematurely. Breaking this cycle requires recognizing the importance of rest, boundaries, and support to create a sustainable and fulfilling career.
Resilience culture, with its emphasis on grit as a defining trait of success, can shift the burden of managing stress and challenges away from organizations and onto individuals. This culture believes that if employees struggle, it’s because they lack resilience rather than because they are facing unrealistic demands or inadequate support. As a result, systemic issues—such as unmanageable workloads, unrealistic expectations, or a lack of meaningful resources—often go unaddressed. By placing the emphasis solely on individual coping mechanisms, organizations may inadvertently neglect their responsibility to cultivate a healthier workplace culture that prioritizes collective well-being and sustainable practices. When the onus is placed solely on employees to suck it up or power through, it absolves employers of their duty to create safe, supportive, and fair work environments where people can truly thrive.
My vision
True resilience isn’t just about personal endurance—it’s about fostering workplaces where well-being, fairness, and collaboration are prioritized. Organizations have a crucial role to play in building resilience by offering meaningful resources and boundaries that support work-life harmony and promoting a culture of understanding and respect. In a truly supportive workplace, employees are not resilient despite the environment—they’re resilient because of it.
As a lawyer and well-being advocate, I’ve participated in and promoted initiatives aimed at improving the personal and professional lives of legal professionals. I've advocated for reasonable workload expectations and for the implementation of wellness programs within corporations and law firms, which can include access to physical and mental health professionals, stress management resources, flexible working arrangements, and mentorship and peer support networks. I have used all of these resources to build a rewarding practice and career.
I work with organizations to help their people flourish. My vision is to create healthy and supportive working environments where individuals can explore their strengths and challenges, develop strategies to fulfill their potential, and be well in the process. Working closely with management and HR teams, I help develop customized wellness initiatives that meet the unique objectives of your organization.
case study
From Overthinking and Waiting On Others to Taking Action, Building Community, and Flourishing
Michael I., Squamish, BC Focus: Reclaiming a Healthy Mindset, Purpose, and a Sense of Belonging Before Coaching: Life as the Idealistic Time Traveller When Michael began his coaching journey, he felt like a solo voyager—navigating a life that looked adventurous from the outside but felt increasingly disconnected and unfulfilling on the inside. Caught in the role of the Idealistic Time Traveler, he was constantly flipping between nostalgia for epic past adventures and dreaming of future ones. Yet in the present, he was overwhelmed: a recent career change had left him stressed, disconnected from his passions, and doubting whether he was on the right path at all. Michael’s internal pressure to “do big things” clashed with a life that felt bogged down by responsibility and isolation. His condo renovations, the stress of work, and high personal expectations kept him fixated on what he “should” be doing—all while craving deep connection, physical vitality, and the joy of outdoor adventure. Despite his desires, he waited on others to include him, leaving him stuck and alone in his metaphorical time machine. The Coaching Journey: Reclaiming Presence and Possibility Michael’s coaching journey focused on shifting from self-pressure and solo striving to grounded presence and connection. He began to notice when the Idealistic Time Traveller was running the show—holding him hostage to nostalgia or fantasy—and practiced tuning into what was real, true, and possible right now. Michael began embodying a new way of being—one that embraced community, joy, leadership, and trust: the Optimistic Santa Claus. He began initiating connection instead of waiting on others. He took the lead on his adventures and started drawing people toward him with a newfound ease, kindness, and optimism. He saw the best in others. He stopped pushing so hard and began allowing joy to return. After Coaching: Embodying the Way of the Optimistic Santa Claus The Outcome: A Life-Altering Shift By the end of the program, Michael had not only shifted his mindset—he had transformed his life. No longer weighed down by the need to “fix the time machine,” he stepped confidently into an exciting new chapter: moving to a new town and beginning a new line of work that deeply aligns with his passions. In his own words, Michael described feeling more relaxed, positive, and connected. That energy began attracting the very things he once felt were missing: meaningful connections, opportunities aligned with his values, and a sense of being truly seen and appreciated. He’s now in the driver’s seat of a purposeful, adventurous, and community-connected life—with two feet in. Key Shifts: • From idealizing the past to creating joy in the present • From solo striving to connection, community, and shared adventure • From pressure and indecision to clarity and aligned action • From disconnection to leading with humour, presence, and joy In His Words: “The quality of my life changed when I stopped waiting for things to get better and decided to think better. Optimism is a choice—and it’s one I get to make every day. When I choose an optimistic mindset, everything shifts—my relationships, my energy, my opportunities.” Michael’s story reminds us that when we let go of perfection and reconnect to presence, life opens up—and our next great adventure begins.