Sally McGrath
Burnout & Workplace Psychological Safety, Mental Health Hygiene, Work Life Synergy & Health & Wellness Speaker
With years of experience leading teams and managing businesses in demanding corporate settings, Sally brings a grounded, empathetic leadership lens to her work. She believes effective leadership requires psychological safety, empathy, and environments where people feel heard, supported, and able to perform sustainably.
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Sally McGrath knows how to help individuals and organisations heal from burnout because she used the same process to piece her own life back together.
If you’re dealing with a stressful business or corporate career and experiencing excessive stress and anxiety that leads to soul-crushing burnout, you’re not alone. Sally experienced first hand how bleak life can feel while you’re in the midst, or even on the verge of it.
Beating burnout is a start, remaining burnout-free is living.
Sally has led teams and managed businesses working in high-pressure environments for many years. In her experience, managing people requires the ability to lead with empathy to ensure all parties feel heard, supported, and safe in our ever-changing places of work.
As a keynote speaker, facilitator, and coach she is on a mission to eradicate the shame and stigma surrounding burnout. With a deep commitment to promoting mental health, Sally has written her first book “Health that Heals: Transform Your Life Before It’s Too Late.”
As an advocate for change, Sally collaborates with businesses, educating leaders and teams about burnout, to raising awareness about its signs, symptoms, and the vicious cycle it creates. This expertise not only helps individuals regain balance but also contributes significantly to enhancing the overall well-being of current and future generations. With her transformative approach, Sally continues to inspire and uplift, creating a positive impact on individuals and organisations.
She has featured in the Australian media, openly discussing her challenge to overcome burnout and creating awareness to remove the shame and stigma associated with burnout.
She specialises in working one-on-one with high-achieving women, offering personalised strategies to treat and prevent burnout. If you’re an incredible person who has lost their way and is looking to find your big “aha” moment that will set you on the path to healing, you and Sally need to talk.
Sally helps established career women and leaders build sustainable performance, psychological safety, and careers that don’t compromise their health. For too long, high performers have been rewarded for pushing through exhaustion, until burnout forces a reckoning.
Her keynotes challenge the belief that stress equals success and offer a new framework: sustainable performance built on recovery, clarity, and psychological safety.
Drawing on real-world experience and evidence-based insights, Sally speak to women and leadership audiences who are ready to thrive at work without sacrificing wellbeing.
Topics
The Quiet Crisis: What Burnout Is Costing Your Organisation Before Anyone Says a Word
Designed for leaders and managers, this session addresses burnout as a leadership and risk management issue, not a personal one. Delegates leave with a clear understanding of the early warning signs, practical language to open honest conversations, and evidence-based tools to support psychological safety and sustainable performance in their teams. Particularly relevant where workload pressure, staff retention or team culture are live issues.
Give to Gain: Why Investing in Yourself Is Your Greatest Professional Strategy
A session on sustainable high performance, reframing self-care as strategic rather than indulgent, and exploring how leaders who invest in their own wellbeing consistently deliver better outcomes for their organisations and their teams. Warm, practical and immediately applicable. Works well as a conference keynote that energises and challenges in equal measure.
Futureproofing Your People: Building a Culture That Retains, Performs and Thrives
For organisations navigating change, workforce pressure and the challenge of keeping good people, this session looks at the cultural and leadership foundations that create environments where people genuinely want to stay and do their best work. Covers psychological safety, burnout prevention, meaningful recognition and the link between wellbeing and performance.
Work Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint: Burnout Awareness and Prevention for the Long Game
A high-energy, practical keynote built around the marathon framework, helping delegates understand where they are on the burnout spectrum, what is fuelling or draining them, and how to build the stamina and strategy to perform well over the long term. Suitable for a mixed audience of professionals at all levels.
