Speaker Series: How to Survive (& Thrive) During Stressful Times

According to the CDC, the national rate of anxiety tripled in the second quarter due to the pandemic and depression almost quadrupled. Negative emotions, like anxiety and depression, aren’t just feelings but often primal indicators of excessive, ongoing and unmanaged stress. Threats to survival, like pandemics, are instinctive triggers of spikes in stress hormones.

Without the right strategies, the baseline levels of stress remain high and take a significant toll on the brain and body, turning off the logical brain and even compromising the immune system. In this workshop, you’ll learn highly actionable takeaways, based on high-performance science, that help you best manage your ancient stress hardwiring. The result: you’ll be able to stay a clear-minded problem solver under pressure and reprogram your brain for peace of mind now and in any stressful situation.

After this session you will be able to:

• Stay a clear-minded problem solver in stressful situations
• Tap into your hidden potential that’s usually suppressed by stress
• Use predatory (good) stress to tap into the high-performance state of flow

About Shannon Dolan: Shannon is a Chief Happiness Officer, corporate educator, author and TEDx speaker who has worked internationally, consulting companies like Deutsche Bank, AirAsia, and Universal Music. She’s on a mission to speedily build the happiest, healthiest and highest-performing companies on the planet. Her goal is to turn the fact that professionals are stress superstars into the biggest advantage for the modern business world, with a sprinkle of fairy dust from science.