Workplace Wellbeing: How to utilise healthy stress to excel at work

Letting stress run rampant can be detrimental to your health, but harnessing its natural response and striking a healthy balance can help keep the mind steady and open avenues to success

Leadership coach & workplace wellness consultant, Emer Deane at Fernhill Park Sandyford, Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney

Emer Deane spent years putting herself under pressure to excel at work. The 43-year-old from Sandyford in Dublin worked first in recruitment and then in sales, initially thriving in those high-pressure work environments.

“I’d get such a great feeling of success when I hit my targets,” she says.