Shirkydra Roberts

Impact, Aspire, Motivate Enterprises, USA

Title: Restoring the Rhythm: Bridging Personal Healing and Professional Leadership through Trauma-Informed Mental Health Training

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Biography

Shirkydra Roberts is a Mental Health Trainer, Speaker, Coach, and Active Duty Military Officer dedicated to equipping leaders with trauma-informed tools for personal and professional transformation. With over 17 years of service and a passion for faith-based healing, she integrates clinical insight, spiritual wisdom, and practical leadership strategies to address emotional burnout, organizational conflict, and the hidden impact of trauma. She has facilitated mental wellness workshops for educators, executives, and faith communities across the U.S. Her signature trainings, including Restoring the Rhythm, help participants realign with purpose, build emotional resilience, and lead from a place of wholeness.

Abstract

Mental wellness and leadership development are often treated as separate domains. However, the internal struggles leaders carry—particularly unresolved trauma, guilt-driven behaviors, and chronic people-pleasing—significantly impact team morale, communication, and organizational culture. As an active duty military officer, mental health trainer, and speaker, I have witnessed how unaddressed personal wounds show up in professional spaces as burnout, control issues, avoidance, or disengagement. This presentation introduces Restoring the Rhythm, a trauma-informed leadership framework designed to help professionals identify the internal disruptions that affect their external performance. The model integrates emotional regulation techniques, boundary-setting skills, and reflective leadership practices rooted in both clinical insight and lived experience.

The session explores how cultural expectations, faith narratives, and family dynamics contribute to identity fragmentation, emotional exhaustion, and distorted leadership behaviors. Through storytelling, psychoeducation, and interactive strategies, participants will learn how to restore balance by reconnecting to their values, managing triggers, and modeling wellness for their teams. This approach does not separate leadership from healing but instead calls for an embodied leadership model where wholeness is the foundation for performance.

By shifting the focus from productivity to purpose, Restoring the Rhythm empowers leaders to cultivate resilience, navigate interpersonal challenges with emotional intelligence, and disrupt trauma cycles that exist within themselves and the workplace. This session is ideal for professionals seeking practical tools to lead from a healthier, more integrated place where personal healing enhances, rather than hinders, leadership effectiveness.

Keywords

trauma-informed leadership; emotional resilience; workplace wellness; mental health training; burnout prevention; boundary setting; emotional intelligence; leadership development; healing-centered engagement; personal growth