Shannon Hurst

Bi-weekly newsletter featured on LinkedIn Shannon Hurst Pressure. Grief. Performance. Helping organizations recognize invisible risks before they become visible problems. July 14, 2026 Over the past year, I've found myself smiling more and more as I scroll through LinkedIn, listen to leadership podcasts, read industry articles, and attend conferences. Not because everything has suddenly changed, but because the questions are changing. For a long time, organizations have focused on outcomes....

Long Beach, Vancouver Island There are moments when I find myself sitting in an airport, a coffee shop, or a waiting room simply watching people. Thousands of lives moving in every direction, each carrying a story I'll never know. Someone has just landed their dream job. Someone else has lost one. A family is travelling to a wedding while another is travelling to a funeral. One person is about to become a parent. Another has just signed divorce papers. A teenager is quietly questioning where...

There are a lot of things we feel every day that we don’t have words for. So we don’t say them. And when we don’t say them, they don’t disappear. They just go unnamed. And what goes unnamed is almost always misunderstood. This Is the Gap We are incredibly good at talking about what’s visible. What happened. What was said. What needs to get done. But we are far less equipped to talk about what’s underneath: The weight we’re carrying. The shift we can feel but can’t explain. The tension that...