SocialTalent Author Spotlight: Lianne Weaver

By David Deady

8th Feb. 2024 Last updated: 8th Feb. 2024

Welcome to our new spotlight series, where we introduce you to some of the incredible authors on the SocialTalent learning platform. With over 100 experts delivering quality content on all areas of workplace excellence, we pride ourselves on having a faculty that are not only heavily experienced in their respective fields, but are also engaging instructors from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Today, we’re going to meet the amazing Lianne Weaver. An author, therapeutic coach, and Managing Director of Beam Development and Training, Lianne delivers unique wellbeing, happiness, personal development, and resilience training to companies and individuals.

Q. Can you give us some background information about your experience and history within this field?

I have worked within wellbeing and personal development for over a decade both delivering training for corporate clients and in a one-to-one capacity helping individuals with a myriad of challenges and issues.

I have a diverse background and am a avid learner, some of the qualifications I hold are

Post Graduate Certificate in Human Resources Management
BA (Hons) Education from Cardiff University
Havening Practitioner
Meridian Psychotherapist (EFT)
NLP Coach and Practitioner
Heroic Optimize Coach
Neuropsychology Diploma
Breath as Medicine Coach
Oxygen Advantage Facilitator
Mental Health First Aider
Reiki Master & Teacher

The training we deliver is unique and all written in-house. We work with organizations all around the world ranging from large multi-national corporations, to public sector to SMEs. Last year I delivered training in 43 countries!

Lianne was a guest on our podcast! Check out her episode all about dealing with stress as a manager:

Q. What are you working on right now?

I am in the process of writing my third book which is all about creating Unstoppable Confidence. Within the business, we have set up some exciting relationships with organizations around the world to help our message reach an even wider audience.

Q. Can you give us a detailed overview of what your content covers?

My content on the SocialTalent platform is “Moving Through Stress as a New Manager”. In every single course I deliver, whether it is focusing on a mental health issue such as anxiety or a personal development issue such as Managing Imposter Syndrome, stress is almost always a factor which needs to be addressed. All of us are also far more likely to be stressed whenever we encounter a novel situation, so looking at stress and its impact when we take on a role of being a new manager is designed to help managers understand their stress, the stress their team may encounter and importantly how to manage it in a healthy way for all involved.

Q. Why is this an important topic of study right now?

Over the past 3 years, we have all had to encounter some huge stressors, not least a pandemic but also our own individual challenges within that time. Stress seems an evermore present part of all of our daily lives. It is interesting to me that we get taught algebra and the biology of a plant at school and yet it is highly unlikely any of us have ever had stress and our response to stressors explained to us. When we understand this better we can make better choices in managing our own stress and be more sensitive to identifying stress in others.

Q. What do you hope learners will gain from doing your missions?

I really hope it gives learners that deeper understanding of stress and their own responses. So many of us flippantly say “I am stressed” without truly understanding what that means and how we are wired to physiologically and psychologically respond to it. By understanding the neuroscience of stress along with having proven ways to manage stress, this mission could help transform individuals both at work and at home.