From Care to Coaching: How the Jay Shetty Certification Transformed My Approach to Corporate Wellness
For over 15 years, I have worked in healthcare walking alongside individuals, families, and teams through some of life’s most sacred and challenging moments. From hospice care and long-term care to public health and community health centres, I’ve witnessed firsthand how burnout, disconnection, and unmanaged stress ripple through individuals, workplaces, and systems.
My clinical career was deeply meaningful. But I started to feel a quiet, persistent pull not just to do more, but to be more.
More present. More aligned. More intentional in how I supported people not just during crisis, but in cultivating resilience, clarity, and leadership.
That calling led me to the Jay Shetty Certification School and it transformed how I now serve organizations, teams, and leaders
Why I Chose the Jay Shetty Certification
In a landscape full of quick fixes and surface-level wellness programs, Jay Shetty’s philosophy stood out. Rooted in service, emotional intelligence, and purpose-driven leadership, the certification was about more than learning techniques it was about becoming a guide who leads with integrity, heart, and human connection.
The curriculum combined neuroscience, behavioral psychology, coaching frameworks, and real-world tools all designed to help individuals move beyond stress and stagnation into clarity and impact.
It wasn’t just professional development. It was leadership from the inside out.
What This Journey Taught Me — As a Coach and Consultant
This certification demanded I first do the work on myself which is what true leadership always requires. I confronted my own patterns of overgiving and perfectionism. I softened into vulnerability. I learned how to lead without fixing, listen without solving, and hold space that invites growth not compliance.
These are the same principles I now bring into the workplace:
- Space for self-awareness
- Language for resilience and boundary-setting
- Tools for emotionally intelligent leadership
- Strategies for burnout recovery and culture redesign
I learned how to bridge my background in clinical care with coaching helping professionals and organizations rise with structure, empathy, and sustainable transformation.
My Biggest Takeaway: “Your Story Is Your Service.”
In healthcare and leadership, we’re often conditioned to believe that credibility comes from certainty. From having the answers. From keeping it all together.
But Jay’s teachings reminded me of a deeper truth:
When leaders show up with curiosity, presence, and compassion, they unlock something powerful in themselves and in their teams. And that’s where transformation begins.
Coaching as the Future of Corporate Wellness
Today, as a Jay Shetty Certified Life & Success Coach and founder of Empowered Wellness Consulting & Mentoring Corporation, I work with organizations that want to go beyond check-the-box wellness initiatives.
I help corporations, healthcare systems, and community-based organizations:
- Build burnout-informed leadership cultures
- Integrate wellness into operational strategy
- Equip managers with emotional intelligence and coaching skills
- Support frontline professionals through transitions and purpose realignment
This isn’t a career pivot it’s a natural evolution. Coaching allows me to extend care at a systems level cultivating cultures of trust, resilience, and sustainable performance.
For Organizations Seeking More Than “Wellness Wednesdays”
If you’re a team leader, executive, or wellness champion who knows your staff is overwhelmed and that deeper support is needed I invite you to consider what coaching can unlock within your people.
The Jay Shetty approach taught me that when people feel seen, heard, and supported, everything changes from performance and engagement to retention and innovation.
Because when your people rise, your organization rises with them.
Let’s Connect
I offer custom coaching programs, workshops, and executive sessions designed to meet the needs of evolving workplaces — from healthcare and nonprofits to mission-driven companies and leadership teams.
Book a complimentary discovery call to explore how coaching can support your organization’s wellness, leadership, and impact.
Because empowered people build empowered cultures.
And that’s the future of work worth creating.
