From Surviving
to THRIVING
The StressLess Method® provides fast, easy, science-based behavior change solutions that support your most strategic & timely organizational goals.
Give your employees the tools they need to manage their stress & build resilience.
How can I help your entire organization build the foundation for reduced healthcare costs, increased performance & higher employee retention?
The StressLess Method®
Create Lasting Change
The StressLess Method® is focused on creating lasting behavior change.
Aspirin + Vitamin
The StressLess Method® helps prevent stress before it happens AND manage the effects of stress after it happens, leaving your employees with greater resilience that leads to higher performance & productivity, higher job satisfaction & a better employee experience.
Customized Transformational Program
This is not a cookie cutter, one-size-fits all program. The StressLess Method® meets people where they are right now
in the flow of their work day!
Virtual Services
The StressLess Method® is completely virtual to support your people no matter where they are located!
Support +Accountability
The StressLess Method® coaches are trained to provide customized stress management tools, assessments, and non-judgemental support to ensure success.
Tools to Stress Less
The StressLess Method® provides evidence-based tools, and techniques to help everyone find ways to manage and prevent stress.
“Ellen is fantastic!”
“Ellen is an incredibly gifted facilitator who is a breath of fresh air, especially for anyone struggling with the stress of working in tech. She led a workshop, "Self-Care in Software," for a community I organize called Empathy In Tech. It was a sold-out event and got rave reviews from participants. Ellen is funny, engaging, and has deep knowledge of what causes stress and how to resolve it. She is a joy to work with and I took away many tips from her talk that have personally made a difference in reducing my own stress levels. If you're leading a team in the tech space and are looking for someone who can help your team recover from the pervasive culture of urgency, Ellen is a fantastic resource!” -Andrea Goulet, Co-founder and Chief Vision Officer of Corgibytes and Heartware
Services…
Keynote Topics
Surviving to Thriving: Navigating Stress Management in the Post-Pandemic Landscape
Stressing Less: The Missing Piece to Your Post-Pandemic Change Management Plan
Managing Stress for Your Organization in the Post-Pandemic World: Manage Change, Improve Engagement, Increase Retention, and Lower Health Care Costs
Workshop Topics
Stress Busting 101 - Steps to Stress Less During Uncertainty
Stress Less - Foundations for Mastering Your Stress
Pivot Your Stress Management - Creating a Plan that Works for YOU During Times of Change
The StressLess Method Transformational Program
A transformational program guiding participants through The StressLess MethodⓇ, a 4-step proprietary process based on the sciences of stress, behavior change, and adult learning. The StressLess MethodⓇ incorporates evidence-based tools, theories, and techniques to support a personalized holistic experience that establishes lasting change. The program includes assessments, coaching, and training in evidence-based practices including positive psychology, resilience, strengths, growth mindset, grit, self-compassion, meditation, and mindfulness.
During the program, participants will experience and implement stress management techniques in real time. Participants will leave with a detailed plan for managing and preventing their stress independently following the program. Ongoing results include both individual & organizational outcomes -- such as higher productivity, greater agility & resilience, and lower employee turnover.
Stress doesn’t go away on it’s own…
Ignoring. Pushing through. Hoping it will go away. None of these strategies work for long. Create an individualized plan that works.
What People Are Saying
“Ellen's work is extremely important in today's high-stress, high-burnout landscape. I recently worked with her when she facilitated a sold-out workshop for the Empathy in Tech community I helped co-found. She easily engaged with people from varying backgrounds and locations, created an environment of trust, and presented easy-to-implement tools. Ellen's expertise in her field helps people and organizations set themselves up for success by integrating self-care and stress management into their routines and operations. She is engaging, relatable, and super fun (like, super duper fun) all while teaching leaders and businesses to change deep-rooted habits.”
— Katie Werremeyer, Co-founder + CEO Heartware
“I think that the best takeaway was being able to accept stress, that it’s a part of my life and everybody else’s too. It’s possible to live with it, it isn’t something that I can just ignore. I can do something about it. I’ve learned ways to manage some of my stress. It’s not something that has to be solved.”
— Michael Helsley, Owner Hoosier Tube Source
“Ellen made it so that I could still follow and engage even though I have a busy work schedule. It felt like you were creating building blocks that created a tool chest that would be useful later. It was structured over time so that I could unpack it and apply it practically.”
— Gwen Nagano, Support Project Manager at BlueVoyant
Creator + CEO
Ellen Leonard, M.S.Ed., a self-described research nerd, spent twelve years as a published scientific researcher before starting The Stressless Method®. A graduate of Brandeis University (B.S.) and Indiana University (M.S.), she was also an award-winning associate faculty at a university for 9 years, an adult educator, an ICF Certified Coach (ACC) a health coach (NBC-HWC, ICHWC, Wellcoaches), a yoga instructor (RYT500, ERYT200), and an Ayurvedic Practioner. Her unique approach to health and wellness incorporates the latest research-based practices, including aspects of positive psychology, meditation, and strengths based development. Seeing a need in the harried workplace climate of today, The StressLess Method® was created in 2013 to address the need for convenient stress management that could be easily incorporated into employee’s everyday life in a realistic way.
How can I help you stress less?
The story…
Hired to teach stress management lunch-n-learn sessions for employees of a large university, I was discouraged from incorporating experiential aspects into my presentations and encouraged to focus on education only. Not surprisingly, the employees attending the sessions were not engaged. They did not want sit and listen to me lecture about the dangers of stress and how a variety of stress management techniques had worked for other people.
They wanted something
RELEVANT TO THEM.
I decided to rethink the traditional wellness and stress management models. How could you help people integrate lasting behavioral changes into their lives? With an M.S. in Adult Education and coaching training, I am uniquely suited for considering what motivates adults. Adults know about stress, they experience stress, and they know they should do something about it.
The StressLess Method® was created in 2013 to give employees a solid foundation of stress management techniques through a human-centered approach that includes guided practices, repetition and personal experience, and support & accountability helping to create lasting change.
What will your employees gain from The StressLess Method®?
The StressLess Method® is a gateway into valuable tools and techniques. Practices that relieve and reduce stress generally have additional benefits:
Improved cognition and productivity
Improved overall health
Increased self-efficacy and self-confidence
These additional benefits work together to help your employees go from surviving and languishing to THRIVING -- at work and at home. With happier and healthier employees, the end result is enhanced engagement, productivity and retention.
-Ellen Leonard