Chrissy May
Burnout, anxiety and a quiet loss of meaning are now part of the working life of the people organisations most rely on. Wellbeing programmes built around perks and resilience training rarely reach the layer underneath, where people are running on depleted reserves, unclear about what they want, and no longer sure why they are doing the work. The question for leaders is what genuine inner recovery looks like, and how to make space for it without it sounding like therapy on company time.
Chrissy May is a transformational therapist, podcast host and author who works with high-achieving individuals on clarity, recovery from burnout, and the personal work behind sustained performance.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Chrissy May
- She speaks to the personal interior of high performers, the part that wellness perks and engagement surveys do not reach, drawing on two decades of one-to-one work with founders, executives and athletes.
- Her practice integrates hypnotherapy, somatic work and subconscious reprogramming through Sacred Shift Therapy, so the material is grounded in a specific therapeutic method rather than general motivational content.
- Audiences hear from someone who has built and run businesses across health, wellness and real estate, not a speaker whose only product is the talk itself.
- Her book Aligned + Alive and the podcast of the same name give organisers a clear, public body of work that audiences can engage with before and after the session.
Biography highlights
- Author, ALIGNED + ALIVE: Your Guide to Clarity, Self-Love, and Living with Purpose.
- Host, Aligned + Alive podcast, distributed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.
- Founder, Sacred Shift Therapy and Sacred Experiences retreats.
- Founder of CMAY Performance, with work spanning elite athletes and survivors of domestic violence.
- Over 20 years in health and wellness; concurrent real-estate advisory practice based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
- Former competitive figure skater and fitness champion.
Biography
Performance at senior levels increasingly comes with a private cost that organisations do not see. Founders, executives and high-output professionals function publicly while quietly running low on clarity, energy and meaning. Chrissy May has spent more than twenty years working with that interior layer.
Her practice, Sacred Shift Therapy, draws on transformational hypnotherapy, somatic work and subconscious reprogramming. The method is specific, not generalised motivation. Her retreat business, Sacred Experiences, applies the same approach to immersive group settings for leaders who need a reset rather than another training programme.
She came to this work through performance environments. She competed as a figure skater and fitness champion before building CMAY Performance, which trained elite athletes and supported survivors of domestic violence. She has since combined the therapeutic practice with a long-running real-estate advisory career in Arizona, working in proximity to the entrepreneurial clients she also coaches.
Her book Aligned + Alive: Your Guide to Clarity, Self-Love, and Living with Purpose and the podcast of the same name extend that practice to a wider audience. Both are built around the same thesis: that the people who appear most capable are often the ones most in need of permission to slow down, recover and choose what they actually want next.
Key speaking topics
- Personal recovery from burnout
- Clarity and purpose for high achievers
- Mindset and subconscious reprogramming
- Inner work behind sustained performance
- Resilience after personal setback
- Authenticity and self-leadership
Ideal for
- Founder and entrepreneur communities convening for offsites or retreats
- Sales, advisory and client-facing teams in high-output industries
- Women’s leadership and high-performer networks
- Personal-development and wellbeing programmes inside professional services and real estate
Audience outcomes
- A clearer picture of where they are running on reserves and what is depleting them
- A specific therapeutic vocabulary for the difference between motivation, mindset and subconscious patterns
- Permission and language to slow down without losing professional ambition
- Practical exercises drawn from hypnotherapy and somatic work that they can use after the session
Talks
A session on how senior performers rebuild clarity about what they want when external success has stopped providing it.
Key takeaways:
- The difference between professional clarity and personal clarity, and why high achievers tend to confuse the two
- A working definition of connection that does not depend on relationship status, role or network
- A practical method for surfacing what they actually want next
A session on recovering from setback, using the speaker’s own experience of physical and personal challenge as the working example.
Key takeaways:
- Why most resilience advice underestimates the role of subconscious patterning
- The distinction between coping, recovering and rebuilding after a serious setback
- How to use a difficult period as the input for a sharper next chapter
A session on aligning daily behaviour, work and relationships with a stated set of personal values.
Key takeaways:
- A clear test for whether a stated value is actually being lived
- The pattern most high performers fall into when their work outgrows their values
- Specific decisions that signal a return to alignment
A session on the internal beliefs that cap performance, and the therapeutic work behind shifting them.
Key takeaways:
- How limiting beliefs are formed and stored at a subconscious level
- The difference between affirmation, motivation and subconscious reprogramming
- A short exercise audiences can use to test what is actually in their way