Business Growth
“When you’ve found your way out of the dark, letting others know where the light is, matters.”
- Shannon Eastman, Founder of The Nervous System Economy™ | Business Growth Strategist | Author | Speaker
I live at the intersection of business growth and nervous system intelligence.
With 25 years in corporate growth, strategy, and regulatory consulting across three continents, I’ve advised startups, scaled service firms, and prepared financial institutions to meet the regulator. I’ve worked with high-growth teams and C-suite leaders under pressure—where performance is everything and clarity is currency. And behind my high-functioning exterior was a truth I became very good at concealing: I was in quiet despair, overthinking everything and regulating nothing.
After years of searching for sustainable solutions—across psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and self-optimization—I found something that changed everything: a biological explanation for my burnout, reactivity, and collapse. And with it, a new path forward.
Stepping away from corporate in 2020 I would invest the next 5 years in studies, inquiry all the while resolving how information so fundamental to a person's quality of life could be so hard to find. Changing that is now my business focus.
Change From The Inside Out
Integrating Nervous System Intelligence across business is where we create change from this inside, so it can extend out.
Founder of The Nervous System Economy™, I lead a global effort to organize, legitimize, and scale nervous system intelligence into leadership, performance, and culture. I design pilots, advise founders, connect ecosystems, and amplify solutions that regulate, restore, and transform.
I am host of Who Turned The Lights On - a podcast that began as an experiment—and quietly reached over 100,000 downloads. It’s now the voice of The Nervous System Economy™—a space where high-functioning professionals, founders, and thinkers share their real-time experience of regulation, burnout, and healing in the context of performance.
I speak to executive audiences, innovation teams, and practitioner communities about the new frontier of sustainable performance: Nervous System Intelligence (NSQ). My talks challenge conventional thinking, reframe resilience, and give leaders a practical roadmap for building organizations that regulate under pressure and thrive in complexity.
Author of C-PTSD at Work: Highly Functioning, Secretly in Despair - This book was written so I could more easily share what I was learning with my former colleagues. A book I dedicated to the Highly Functioning, Secretly in Despair crowd over in Financial Services. The very people who gave me the term originally.
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