Rebecca Hannan

Rebecca Hannan Working with organisations to create happy, healthy, productive people. Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategist How do I work? Am I right for you?

Nature lover, mother, businesswoman, wife, grandmother, entrepreneur, yoga lover, salad queen, risk taker, organiser, dreamer, coast dweller, starter, stayer, finisher, negotiator, listener, chaos buster……The Momentum Maker

I believe in building a powerful legacy. What we create and what we leave matters - for our families our communities and for future generations. My Mission,
To educate, inspi

re, and empower you to take back control of your life so you can lead a life of purpose, meaning, and fulfilment. You can trust me to motivate, nudge and hold you and your team accountable. I’ll trust you to commit energy and effort to achieving your goals

Between us we’ll skill you up to swap self-sabotage for self belief. You’ll be prepared to back yourself. You’ll know what you need more of or less of or what you need to do totally differently. If you’re ready to go for a goal that seems light years away or just out of reach, I’ll help you get there. If you’re keen to change but lost for direction I’ll help you find the path. See yourself here? Right now I’m coaching people who need to:

• Learn some sanity saving switch offs from their high pressure 24/7 professions
After an award winning decade in the demanding real estate industry I know how much this matters
• Work through the unglamorous, unpaid essentials to establish their new businesses
After building four successful small businesses I ’get’ what it takes to grind out the grunt work and still stay inspired and on track
• ‘Shape up’ for all kinds of endurance events – changing careers, completing a marathon, coming out of their shells
After three complete career transformations and thousands of kilometers on the road I do disciple and commitment quite well

Enough about me - let’s talk about you. Get in touch

The University of the Sunshine Coast is seeking volunteers to take part in research exploring the perceived barriers and...
22/06/2026

The University of the Sunshine Coast is seeking volunteers to take part in research exploring the perceived barriers and facilitators to implementing workplace mental health and wellbeing interventions.

We are looking to hear from key stakeholders who implement or influence the adoption of mental health interventions within Australian workplaces, across academia, education, corporate, or government settings, across any sector such as healthcare, aged care, mining, construction, and across any organisation size (e.g. small, medium or large).

Participants may include C-suite and senior leaders, policy makers, researchers, HR professionals, managers, wellbeing leads, employees with lived experience of workplace interventions, and researchers with professional experience relevant to workplace mental health.

Participants need to:
1. Be aged 18+
2. Have a minimum of 2 years’ professional experience in Australia relevant to workplace mental health, and
3. Be either actively working in their role or have retired from a relevant role within the preceding 5 years.

Participants will be asked to answer a short survey, then take part in a confidential, one on one interview (approximately 60 minutes), conducted either via Microsoft Teams or in person. For more information and to register your interest, click here: https://uniofsunshinecoast.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_231jrRHkvQZarqK

Ethics approval: S262253

I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, and for good reason.Last year, I packed up, moved interstate, and threw myself int...
09/06/2026

I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, and for good reason.

Last year, I packed up, moved interstate, and threw myself into full-time Honours on the Sunshine Coast. Thesis, assignments, exams, statistics at midnight… the whole thing. It was full on, it was worth it, and I’m now back home in WA with my family (and my frog bog 🐸).

Something really exciting is coming up: I’m about to launch my research for my Honours thesis; Exploring the Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Evidence-Based Mental Health Interventions in Workplaces: A Systems Thinking Approach.

Because the reasons these interventions often don’t make it off the page and into practice rarely come down to one thing, they’re layered, interconnected, and often hiding from plain sight.

If that’s your world (HR, OHS, People and Culture, Organisational leadership, or Workplace mental health and wellbeing consulting), I’d love your input. More details coming very soon.

It’s great to be back. 👋🐸

Who said the library is the only place to study?Today, I am starting my Honours literature review, and I made a delibera...
11/03/2026

Who said the library is the only place to study?

Today, I am starting my Honours literature review, and I made a deliberate choice about where to begin.

Research consistently shows that our environment has a profound impact on cognitive performance and stress regulation. Natural settings, in particular, support deeper focus and faster mental recovery.

So today, I took that seriously. Ocean views, intentional micro-breaks, and a slower pace of reading and taking notes, not as a luxury, but as my strategy.

For me, the beach has a way of breaking down my stress, making information stick better, and reminding me to breathe between reading and writing.

As I begin this next chapter of my studies, I’m reminded that sustainable study isn’t just about the hours I put in. It’s about the conditions I create to do my best work.

Here’s to studying and working smarter, not harder.

What strategies help you to think, live and work WELL?

Today, my work looked a little different.Most days, I’m in boardrooms, on mine sites, or working alongside leaders navig...
03/03/2026

Today, my work looked a little different.

Most days, I’m in boardrooms, on mine sites, or working alongside leaders navigating complexity, performance pressure, and people challenges.

Today, I was in a high school.

I’ve just commenced a new contract with the , delivering mental fitness programs to students — and what a privilege that was.

No slide decks about KPIs.
No executive strategy conversations.
Just a room full of young people willing to lean in, have real conversations, and build skills that will shape how they think, lead, and live.

And they were incredible.

Curious. Engaged. Thoughtful. Brave.

Mental fitness isn’t just for the workplace. It’s a life skill.
The earlier we build it, the stronger the foundation.

It was energising to step outside my usual corporate context and into a space where prevention, literacy, and capability-building happen early, before stress becomes burnout, before silence becomes stigma.

No photos from the session (for obvious reasons).
Just me, standing outside the school, feeling grateful that this work can stretch across generations.

Different room.
Same mission.

Helping people ThinkWELL, LeadWELL, and LiveWELL.


Airport goodbyes. Honours year. A full-time load.And that quiet voice asking… “what on earth are you doing?”I’m back on ...
26/02/2026

Airport goodbyes. Honours year. A full-time load.
And that quiet voice asking… “what on earth are you doing?”

I’m back on the Sunshine Coast and starting the second semester of my Psychology Honours next week. This semester I’m all in - full-time study, a significant research project (more on that soon), and a calendar that already feels ambitious.

There’s excitement. A deep sense of purpose. And nerves.
Growth rarely feels neat or linear; it stretches you. It asks you to hold ambition in one hand and uncertainty in the other.
What makes this possible is support.

Sunny and I have become well rehearsed in airport photos and long stints living apart. We may be smiling, but it is never easy. Sustaining a relationship across distance isn’t for the faint-hearted. It takes intentional communication, emotional maturity, and a shared commitment to something bigger than the temporary discomfort.

And that’s where this becomes more than a personal post.

Behind every leader doing hard things…
Every professional pursuing development…
Every person quietly stretching themselves…
There needs to be psychological safety, relational support, and environments that understand that performance and wellbeing are not competing forces.

They are interdependent.

As I begin a demanding year of research and study, I’m reminded that we don’t thrive in isolation. We thrive when the systems around us make growth sustainable.

Here’s to professional growth, meaningful work, partners and people who back you. And to workplaces that understand that wellbeing isn’t a luxury — it’s infrastructure.

Much of my work doesn’t show up neatly on social media.It happens in private coaching sessions, coaching circles, correc...
10/02/2026

Much of my work doesn’t show up neatly on social media.

It happens in private coaching sessions, coaching circles, correctional centres, and corporate boardrooms, often behind closed doors, always centred on people and the challenging conversations about mental health and wellbeing at work.

This week has been a full one. Coaching, presenting, and then last night I landed in Broome, welcomed by a fiery sunset and the unmistakable mugginess of the wet season. A stark and beautiful contrast to the rooms and spaces where these conversations usually unfold.

Over the next few days, I’ll be presenting in Broome and Derby, I’m excited about the work ahead. There’s something powerful about bringing practical, evidence-informed wellbeing conversations into diverse workplaces and communities, especially where they can make a tangible difference to how people think, lead, and work.



When Sarah returned to work after the festive break, nothing looked different.But to Sarah, everything felt different….S...
14/01/2026

When Sarah returned to work after the festive break, nothing looked different.
But to Sarah, everything felt different….
Same desk.
Same role.
Same schedule filling up fast.
There was an invisible load Sarah carried with her, things that weren’t appropriate to share at work:

Conversations from last year left unresolved
A changed family dynamic
The constant pressure to “hit the ground running”

Physically, Sarah was back at work.
Psychologically, she was still in transition.

This is what’s often missed about returning to work.
It isn’t just logistical. It’s psychological.
We don’t return to work as a clean slate.
We return with unfinished business, altered priorities, and unspoken expectations of ourselves and others.

When transitions are not considered at a leadership level or are dismissed, they don’t disappear.
They resurface as disengagement, fatigue, or burnout.

Workplace wellbeing doesn’t start with performance conversations.
It starts with respecting transitions, because how supported people feel when they return shapes how they perform.


Cognitive load is the invisible workload.Most people aren’t unmotivated; they’re overloaded.It comes from:🛑 Too many dec...
14/01/2026

Cognitive load is the invisible workload.

Most people aren’t unmotivated; they’re overloaded.

It comes from:
🛑 Too many decisions
🛑 Constant task switching
🛑 Competing priorities

When thinking capacity is stretched, even the most capable people struggle to be productive.

Reducing cognitive load is one of the simplest and most effective mental health strategies at work.

💬 How do you manage cognitive load in your day to day work?

Mental health at work starts earlier than you think.It doesn’t begin when someone is visibly struggling.It starts with h...
13/01/2026

Mental health at work starts earlier than you think.

It doesn’t begin when someone is visibly struggling.
It starts with how work is designed.

Poor work design often shows up as:
🚩 Low job control
🚩 High and low job demands
🚩 Low role clarity

These aren’t just frustrations.
They are well-established risk factors for psychological harm at work.
If the year starts frantically, the rest of the year rarely slows down.
Strong cultures are built on intentional, sustainable work design.


The way we approach productivity is often all about the hustle. Long hours. Fast pace. Full schedules.But what if we loo...
12/01/2026

The way we approach productivity is often all about the hustle.
Long hours. Fast pace. Full schedules.

But what if we looked at it a different way?
Sustainable productivity.

It’s quieter and looks like:
💡Clear priorities
💡Less decisions
💡Protecting your energy

If your work requires constant urgency to move forward, that’s not high performance.
It’s a system under strain.

Productivity needs to support mental health, not compete with it.


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