About Shona
Wellbeing with purpose. Measured by results.
Burnout nearly cost me everything.
After a 20-year legal career built on pressure, performance, and pushing through, my body finally forced me to stop.
A life-changing accident, brain trauma, reconstructive surgery, and cancer changed how I view success forever. That breakdown became my breakthrough.
Today, I help organisations reach their people before stress silently impacts performance, confidence, health, relationships, and culture.
Because the people most at risk are often the ones performing the best. The ones everyone describes as “fine,” “strong,” “always on.” The people who never think they’ll burn out — until they do.
“Shona makes a room full of strangers feel like they’ve known her for years.”
Human-First Wellbeing
What makes my work different is simple: I connect human-to-human.
No tick-box wellbeing. No corporate scripts. Just honest conversations, practical tools, emotional intelligence, movement, lived experience and sustainable strategies that work in real life. Within minutes, barriers drop, people stop pretending, and conversations open.
That is where real change begins.
“Shona makes a room full of strangers feel like they’ve known her for years.”
The M5 Way™
Your Path from Breakdown to Breakthrough
At the heart of my work is my proven M5 Way™ — a practical framework that helps individuals and organisations create healthier high performance. Built around my signature STOP ★ THINK ★ ACT approach, it focuses on the five areas that shape resilience, wellbeing, energy, and performance:
The M5 Way focuses on five key areas that influence resilience, wellbeing, energy, and performance.
Simple. Practical. Human. Sustainable. Because wellbeing should work in real life — not just in theory.
Bite-Sized Workshops That Create Lasting Change
Most wellbeing initiatives fail because they overload people with information they don’t have the time, energy, or capacity to implement. People leave inspired for a day, then fall straight back into overwhelm.
So I built a different approach: short, practical, action-focused sessions designed to create sustainable behavioural change without overwhelming already busy teams. Because real transformation happens through small shifts repeated consistently — not one-off information overload. Each session fits into real working life and builds momentum over time, helping people:
- Recognise burnout earlier
- Regulate stress more effectively
- Improve energy and focus
- Strengthen resilience
- Build healthier habits that actually stick
How I Help
The Impact
⚡ More energised teams ⚡ Stronger emotionally intelligent leadership ⚡ Reduced burnout and absenteeism
⚡ Healthier workplace cultures ⚡ Sustainable high performance
“Her energy, honesty, and authenticity are contagious.”
Broken to Bionic
My message is simple: burnout is preventable when people know what to look for, feel safe enough to speak up, and are given practical tools that actually work. Because healthier people perform better — and prevention will always be more powerful than recovery.
In my empowering book, I share my journey from high-achieving lawyer to rock bottom, following a life-changing accident caused by chronic stress and undiagnosed burnout.
What follows is not just a story of survival, but of transformation. Broken to Bionic is a guide to recognising burnout early, reversing its damage, and learning how to rebuild yourself stronger.
Organisations I’ve worked with:
- Direct Line Group
- Johnson & Johnson
- Specsavers
- Bentley Systems
- Leidos Supply Ltd
- Edwards Vacuum
- Great Western Air Ambulance
- Velocity Global
- Allianz
- Mind UK
- BCA
- City of London College
- GKN Automotive
Ready to build a workplace people don’t burn out of?
Burnout is costing you more than you realise, not just in lost time, but in lost people. If you want a wellbeing partner who is real, raw, and relentlessly committed to change, I’m your person.