Megan Rees (She/Her) Email & Phone Number

I'm passionate about helping people live the lives they want to live, which sometimes means helping them create better boundaries with their jobs, sometimes means helping them take leaps into new roles, and sometimes means devoting more energy to their passions, hobbies, and relationships.I also help companies create cultures where employees can innovate at their highest level. I'm trained in Amy Edmonson's Fearless Organization Scan. I can use this to diagnose problems on teams and then work with the team to operationalize effective collaboration.

California, United States

Feel Better. Sleep More. Be Nicer to Be Around.I believe that work shouldn’t suck the joy out of life. My goal as a therapist is to help you feel like yourself again.Through therapy, you can transform your relationship to work, even if you can’t quit your job. It’s possible to regain your sense of purpose, develop skills for coping with stress, set boundaries with difficult people, and take back your power. The results could mean a better time at work and more meaningful time away from work.I’m not just talk and neither is working with me.I’m here to listen, but sometimes you’re all talked out. I’m trained as a drama therapist, which means that we can optionally use more than just talking to get at the heart of what’s troubling you. We might use metaphors, images, or storytelling. It might be easier for you to explain it by talking about your favorite TV character. We might explore where you feel it in your body because that’s where your stress is hanging out, anyway.I help my clients work through serious issues, and while there’ll be insights, progress, challenges, and triumphs, sometimes there’ll also be playfulness and maybe even some laughter.In addition to being a therapist, I’ve survived toxic workplaces and I’ve had my heart broken by mission-driven orgs riddled with abuse. Because of this, I also have a specialization in diagnosing psychological safety problems in companies. That, coupled with years of grassroots anti-racism work means that I will see—not only you—but the systems that might further cause you harm.My 17 years of experience includes training in grief, loss, and trauma. Whether you’re mourning a person, the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, or a change in identity that comes with making a career pivot, I would be honored to help hold space for your grief.

-Multi award-winning screenwriter-Available for Subject Matter Expert consultations (therapy, mental health, substance abuse, trauma)

As a 1 person L&D team, I built a professional development and stakeholder education program from the ground up. I designed the popular course Interviewing 101, trained a team of co-facilitators, supervised the data packaging, and reported the impacts back to leadership. Feedback from participants was nearly perfect.Part of mass lay-off.

San Francisco Bay Area

Design content for DEIB consulting workshops.Projects have included: Talent Acquisition + ERG Partnership, increasing diversity for candidate pipelines.Still available to partner but not currently partnering.

Workplace effectiveness: -Helped build Twitter's guidelines for meetings and all associated training. -Helped take the company from 60% - 95% Slack adoption through consultation and creative learning solutions.Manager development:-Designed first virtual manager training.-Created associated self-directed prerequisite curriculum.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Mosaic is a national training and workforce consulting firm that focuses on the utility and oil & gas industries. Through Mosaic, I am a full-time consultant at Training Magazine's #6 Top Training Organization (2017)!In this role, I:-Create content for instructor-led, web-based and virtual learning using Storyline, the Adobe Creative Cloud and Vyond (formerly GoAnimate).-Serve as a lead instructional designer-Mentor colleagues-Shoot and edit video-Record and edit audio-Foster relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts, ensuring happy clients and exceptional learning solutions-Develop QA testing plans and execute them-Author Knowledge Assessments

*Conceived and scripted the company’s first ever e-learning curriculum—an 8-module health and wellness e-learning series—as well as accompanying certification exam and handouts available to 3000 employees.*Designed an instructor-led training session for regional purposes; after overwhelmingly positive feedback, it was adopted into an enterprise-wide live training.*Project managed and edited team curriculum design projects. Improved quality of materials 100% as remarked by pilot participants. Project management processes were more clear and easier to follow, as remarked by team.*Conducted formal needs assessments analyzing the perspectives of leadership and compliance to make recommendations and ultimately design a learning solution. Additionally, facilitated informal needs analysis meetings with leadership of various programs to design and deliver learning programs.*Collaborated with subject matter experts and compliance team to design curriculum aligned with statewide initiative.*Delivered a variety of trainings to participants of diverse roles including monthly New Hire Orientation. Received highest participant feedback scores of all trainers in the region.*Created and edited video, audio and graphic assets.*Developed Train-the-Trainer workshops, coached and mentored new trainers.

Oakland, Ca

*Awarded Employee of the Month*Received excellent feedback on group leadership by a state auditor.*Supervised Rehab Activity Leader*Led multidisciplinary meetings*Regional Certified Pro-ACT and Pro-ACT Restraint Trainer*Provided leadership to Rehab Department in director's absence.*Served on Hiring Advisory team to conduct cultural fit interviews.*Created new programs for both staff and clients, including : Improv, Facilitation Basics, Creative Writing

*Served as Tri-State Chapter treasurer November 2007 - November 2009*Produced regional conference.

*Provided individual and group counseling to over 30 high school students.*Composed comprehensive progress notes.*Built relationships with school personnel; interfaced regarding student functioning.*Assessed and intervened in crisis situations.

Ma, Drama Therapy

Certificate, Instructional Design

Preparing To Manage Human Resources

Voiceover

Education record

Activities and Societies: Everything I learned about leadership, I learned from doing improv and theater . . . *Always have each others'.

Ba, Theater And Literature

Activities and Societies: *Created and executed an original Kabuki makeup for the run of a faculty-directed show. *Directed an original.

Managing Employee Performance