I Built This Because I’ve Lived It.
Brandy Zimmerman,
Founder, Thriving Workplaces
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She knows what it’s like from the inside.
Brandy lives with ADHD and anxiety – and has navigated her own experience with burnout. That’s not a footnote in her story. It’s the foundation of her approach.
It means she understands what it feels like when your best intentions collide with an impossible workload. She knows the gap between knowing what you “should” do and actually being able to do it under pressure. And she’s built her entire methodology around closing that gap – including the 5 Pillars of a Thriving Workplace™, which exists precisely because she kept seeing the same systemic failures drive the same human cost.
“It’s not a WHAT problem – it’s a HOW problem. Most people already know what they need to do. The challenge is making it work in the middle of real life.”
The experience behind the work
Government & Policy
As a former Associate Minister of Health for Alberta (2016–2019), Brandy was responsible for mental health and substance use policy, maternal and infant care, and end-of-life care. She understands the pressures of leadership, the weight of decisions that affect people’s lives, and what it actually takes to create systems that support human wellbeing at scale.
Psychological Health & Safety
Brandy is a CMHA-Certified Psychological Health & Safety Advisor – trained in the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace and how to implement it in real organizations, not just on paper.
Communications & People
With a journalism background and years in communications and political organizing, Brandy has a particular talent for taking complex systemic ideas and making them clear, practical, and actionable for the people who need them most.
