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11/09/2026

“I’d feel stupid doing that in the office.”

I hear this a lot when I suggest Movement Snacks.

Desk push-ups?
Wall sits?
Marching on the spot?

Absolutely not. Someone might see me.

So don’t start there.

Start with something that doesn’t feel like exercise.

Next time you have a phone call that doesn’t require your screen, get up and walk while you talk.

Same call.

Same amount of time.

But you’ve broken up your sitting, got your body moving and given your brain a change of scenery.

You don’t have to look like you’re exercising to benefit from movement.

And perhaps we need to stop worrying about looking busy and start thinking about how well we’re performing.

What stops YOU moving more at work - forgetting, feeling self-conscious, being too busy, or something else?

If you want simple Movement Snacks based on how you’re feeling and what you need in that moment, my Performance Microbreak Platform™ does the thinking for you.

DM me “MICROBREAK” if you’d like to see how it works.

“I’d feel stupid doing that in the office.”

I hear this a lot when I suggest Movement Snacks.

Desk push-ups?
Wall sits?
Marching on the spot?

Absolutely not. Someone might see me.

So don’t start there.

Start with something that doesn’t feel like exercise.

Next time you have a phone call that doesn’t require your screen, get up and walk while you talk.

Same call.

Same amount of time.

But you’ve broken up your sitting, got your body moving and given your brain a change of scenery.

You don’t have to look like you’re exercising to benefit from movement.

And perhaps we need to stop worrying about looking busy and start thinking about how well we’re performing.

What stops YOU moving more at work - forgetting, feeling self-conscious, being too busy, or something else?

If you want simple Movement Snacks based on how you’re feeling and what you need in that moment, my Performance Microbreak Platform™ does the thinking for you.

DM me “MICROBREAK” if you’d like to see how it works.

Most organisations don't have a burnout problem.They have a burnout DETECTION problem.As I've gained a lot more follower...
10/09/2026

Most organisations don't have a burnout problem.

They have a burnout DETECTION problem.

As I've gained a lot more followers lately, here's what I actually do.

I help organisations spot burnout while their people are still showing up.

Before the reliable employee becomes the absent one.

Before the high performer quietly disengages.

Before "I'm fine" becomes "I can't do this anymore."

And I give people practical tools to act on what they notice - through movement, mindset, nutrition, behaviour and better workplace culture.

Because burnout prevention isn't another wellbeing webinar.

It's noticing what's changing, and doing something about it early enough to matter.

So here's something you can do today:

Don't ask someone, "Are you OK?"

Ask:

"What's feeling heavier than it should right now?"

Then actually listen to the answer.

That's what my keynotes, training and burnout prevention tools are built around:

Spot it sooner. Act earlier.

And outside of all things burnout?

I'm happiest lifting weights or walking for miles, I love music, cooking, sunshine, travelling, laughing until my stomach hurts and a decent glass of fizz.

And there's Chewy, my cockapoo - who is thankfully not chewy by nature.

That's enough about me.

Tell me ONE thing about you I'd never guess from your LinkedIn profile.

09/09/2026

YOUR DESK IS KILLING YOU.

OK, maybe not literally.

But sitting there for hours without moving is doing your body, and your performance, no favours.

Stiff neck. Aching back. Slumped posture. Low energy. Wandering focus.

Yet we still wear sitting at our desks all day like a badge of honour.

Being glued to your desk is NOT a sign of productivity.

And you don't need a 30-minute workout to change how you feel.

You need 60 seconds.

That’s why I created the Performance Microbreak Platform™.

Tell it how you feel.
Get a targeted 60-second Movement Snack.
Move. Reset. Measure the difference.
Get back to work.

Simple.

Because the value isn't the 60 seconds you stop working.

It's how you perform afterwards.

When did sitting at a desk for hours become a sign that someone is working hard?

Watch the video and try it yourself.

If you want to see how the Platform could improve energy, focus and performance across your organisation, DM me “MICROBREAK” and I’ll show you.

08/09/2026

If you genuinely believe you’re too busy to pause for 5 minutes, you have a problem.

And if you’re a leader who gets irritated when you see someone in your team taking a few minutes away from their desk, you might be part of it.

I recorded this on one of my morning walks.

I’d stopped for five minutes.

No phone.
No emails.
No multitasking.

Just a pause.

And I know what some people will be thinking:

“Lovely idea, Shona. But I don’t have time for that.”

That’s exactly why you need it.

We’ve somehow created working cultures where being permanently busy looks productive.

Back-to-back meetings.
Eating at the desk.
Ignoring the stiff back.
Pushing through the afternoon slump.
Coming off a stressful call and jumping straight into the next one.

We call that commitment.

I call it expensive.

Because when your brain and body are overloaded, you don’t suddenly become more productive by pushing harder.

Sometimes the fastest way forward is to stop.

And it doesn't have to be five minutes.

It might be a 60-second Movement Snack to reset your posture, ease stiffness and sharpen your focus.

It might be five minutes away from your screen after a difficult meeting.

It might be two minutes sitting in silence before making an important decision.

Small pause. Better next hour.

That’s the bit we keep missing.

And leaders, this matters.

If your people feel guilty for stepping away from their desks for 60 seconds, you don’t have a break problem.

You have a culture problem.

So try it yourself.

Take five minutes today when you would normally push through.

Then notice how you work afterwards.

And if you want more than my word for it, that’s exactly why I created the Performance Microbreak Platform™.

It doesn't just tell people to take a break.

It measures how they feel before and after a targeted 60-second microbreak, so organisations can actually see the difference.

Because slowing down isn’t the opposite of performance.

Sometimes it’s what makes performance possible.

When you see someone at work taking 5 minutes to pause, do you see someone looking after their performance, or someone who should be working?
.

07/09/2026

Your highest performer could be burning out in front of you.
And you might be praising them for it.

I know because I was her.

Two days before I collapsed from burnout, I was smiling for a photograph.

I looked happy.

Capable.

Successful.

I was still turning up.
Still meeting deadlines.
Still answering emails.
Still getting things done.

What people couldn't see was what was happening behind the performance.

I was forgetting conversations.

Reading the same sentence over and over because my brain couldn't process it.

Crying in my car.

Getting lost on my way to work.

And still turning up the next day.

That's the bit about burnout we don't talk about enough.

Poor performance isn't always the warning sign.

Sometimes performance is the mask.

The person who never says no.

The person answering emails at 10pm.

The person who takes on another project when they're already drowning.

The person everyone describes as “so resilient.”

I used to think pushing through proved I was strong.

It nearly broke me.

So perhaps the question leaders need to stop asking is:

“Are they still performing?”

And start asking:

“What is it costing them to keep performing like this?”

Because by the time performance drops, you may already be very late.

Who in your organisation is brilliant at looking fine?

Please DON’T become one of my Performance Partners… …if you think the answer to workplace performance is asking already ...
03/09/2026

Please DON’T become one of my Performance Partners…

…if you think the answer to workplace performance is asking already exhausted people to simply work harder.

I’m growing the Performance Microbreak Platform™ and I’m looking for a small number of Performance Partners to grow it with me.

People who believe what I believe:

Movement doesn’t interrupt performance.
It improves it.

60 seconds away from the screen isn’t lost productivity.

It can mean returning with more energy, better focus, less stress and fewer aches and pains.

And importantly, the Platform measures what happens - tracking changes in focus, energy, stress, mood and physical comfort, rather than simply counting how many breaks somebody takes.

This isn’t another wellbeing initiative people forget exists.

I believe this is where the future of work is heading:

Small interventions.
Built into the working day.
Measured by their impact on human performance.

And I want people who are excited about taking that into organisations with me.

Performance Partners will receive their own referral link and earn commission from organisations they introduce that become paying customers.

These are paid opportunities.

I’m particularly interested in speaking to people working in HR, Occupational Health, L&D, ergonics, physiotherapy, workplace wellbeing and leadership development.

But values matter more to me than your job title.

Do you believe getting people to stop for 60 seconds could actually help an organisation get MORE out of the other 59 minutes?

If your answer is yes, comment PARTNER or DM me.

I think we should talk.

02/09/2026

**We've spent 30 years making work faster.

So why are we still exhausted?**

When computers started appearing in workplaces in the early 90s, my dad wanted nothing to do with them.

He was a lawyer.

He even threatened to quit rather than use one.

But eventually, even Dad adapted.

Computers made things faster.

Then email did.

Then smartphones.

Then Teams and Zoom.

Now AI promises to save us hours.

And yet the latest Mental Health UK Burnout Report found that 91% of UK adults experienced high or extreme pressure or stress in the last year.

One in five workers took time off because of stress-related poor mental health.

And the biggest workplace stressor?

High or increased workload.

So perhaps technology was never the problem.

What we do with the capacity it creates is.

If AI saves someone an hour and we respond by giving them another hour's work, we haven't improved human performance.

We've just increased throughput.

So here's one solution I want leaders to think about:

For every AI productivity measure, add a human performance measure.

Don't just ask:

How many hours did AI save?

Also ask:

Are people less overloaded?

Are they making better decisions?

Are they finishing work with more energy?

Do they feel safe saying when the workload is too much?

Because AI is about to make work considerably faster.

Compassionate leadership needs to make sure humans don't have to become machines to keep up.

If 30 years of technology haven't made us less exhausted, why do we think the next technology automatically will?

You can’t come back from a break refreshed if you never actually switch off. This bench is one of my non-negotiables. It...
31/08/2026

You can’t come back from a break refreshed if you never actually switch off.

This bench is one of my non-negotiables.

It sits on the coastal path between Portishead and Clevedon.

Chewy beside me.
The sea in front of me.
Wales in the distance, where I’ll usually give my family a wave.

No emails.
No rushing.
No need to be productive.

Just the sound of the waves, a few birds singing and absolutely no idea how long I’ve been sitting there.

I’ve sat on this bench in every season.

And it’s beautiful every single time.

This is my peace.

This Bank Holiday, I know not everyone gets to switch off completely. Some of you will be working.

But being busy doesn’t mean every minute has to belong to somebody else.

So whether you've had three days off or you're working through them, protect something for yourself.

Then take that habit into September.

September has a habit of becoming the new January.

Back to work.
Back to school.
Back to meetings.
Back to routines.
Back to squeezing ourselves to the bottom of the list.

Don't.

Choose ONE daily non-negotiable for September.

Not an ambitious new routine you'll abandon by the second week.

Something small enough that you can actually keep doing it.

A 15-minute walk without your phone.
Lunch away from your desk.
A 60-second Movement Snack every hour.
Ten minutes with a book.
Sitting somewhere that makes the world feel a little quieter.

Mine will include this bench.

The best non-negotiable isn't the most impressive one. It's the one you enjoy enough to protect.

Because burnout prevention isn't always about adding another wellbeing activity to your life.

Sometimes it's about refusing to give all of your life away.

So, before September starts:

What's the ONE thing you're making non-negotiable for yourself every day?

27/08/2026

I GET PAID TO STOP PEOPLE WORKING.

Then I teach their bosses how to encourage it. 😂

Sounds like a terrible business model, doesn’t it?

Earlier this week, Jon Cox challenged us to describe what we do in a way that makes it sound slightly shady or illegal.

So here’s mine:

I interrupt people while they’re working.

I encourage them to leave their desks.

I get them marching while the kettle boils.

Squatting while they brush their teeth.

Doing push-ups against the kitchen worktop.

And sometimes I persuade entire organisations that their employees should spend MORE time moving and LESS time sitting at their desks.

Basically, I’m paid to disrupt productivity - to improve productivity.

Because sitting glued to a screen for hours isn’t a badge of commitment.

Our brains and bodies need regular resets.

And that doesn’t mean disappearing to the gym for an hour.

It can be 60 seconds.

Stand up.
Move.
Reset.
Get back to it.

That’s the whole idea behind my Movement Snacks.

Small enough to fit into the working day.
Simple enough that people actually do them.
Effective enough to make a difference when they become part of the culture.

So yes...

I get paid to stop people working.

Just long enough to help them work better. 😉

Thanks Jon for the inspiration!

Now your turn.

Describe what YOU do for a living and make it sound slightly shady or illegal.

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