Presented in collaboration with the Canadian Innovation Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace
Today’s leaders are navigating unprecedented levels of uncertainty, rapid change, and organizational complexity. These pressures can unintentionally erode psychological safety, diminish team energy, and increase the risk of harm—even when leaders are deeply committed to supporting their people. Ensuring leaders have the skills to communicate clearly, reduce friction, and model calm self management is essential to protecting the employee experience.
This webinar series is designed for leaders who need practical, immediately applicable tools that reinforce safe leadership practices, strengthen interpersonal confidence, and enhance team performance, building on APEX’s new Positive Leadership Toolkit. Each session is intentionally brief (45 to 60 minutes) to fit into busy schedules while offering actionable frameworks leaders can immediately apply within their respective organizations.
The Setting Yourself Up For Success Leader Series offers leaders brief learning bursts to help them manage complexity without harming themselves, their teams or their colleagues. Each session equips leaders with realistic tools, behavioural clarity, lived experience, and increased confidence to lead with steadiness, compassion, and impact—even during turbulent periods.
Together, these sessions reinforce a leadership model based on the principles of positive leadership, where psychological safety and self-awareness work hand in hand to create teams that are more resilient, more engaged, and better equipped to deliver results.
Sustaining Performance: Executive Self Care from the Inside Out
This session is built on what actually works in practice, and is informed equally by professional expertise and lived experience. A leader in workplace wellbeing, Shona McGlashan draws directly from her time as a high performing executive navigating complex leadership roles while managing her own mental health journey and chronic pain.
The result is a learning experience that is practical, human, and deeply relevant to executive reality.
Purpose
To help executives:
- Normalize the reality that sustainable long-term performance and decision quality depend on executive self-awareness and self care
- Recognize early warning signs of burnout in themselves
- Build a self-care practice that is realistic, personalized, and compatible with high-responsibility, high-chaos roles
This session reframes self care not as a “soft skill,” but as a leadership discipline.
