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About
Sharise Nance
Sharise is a licensed clinical social worker, certified compassion fatigue specialist, and the founder of Thrive Network and Renewed Resilience, LLC. With over a decade of experience supporting helping professionals, she’s dedicated to preventing burnout and promoting emotional wellness across organizations and communities.
Empowering Individuals and Organizations to Thrive
Through speaking, workshops, trainings, and wellness programs, Sharise helps professionals and organizations overcome burnout, build resilience, and reconnect with their purpose.
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The Challenge
Multnomah County’s Employee Wellness Program was navigating a season of significant change. Like many public sector organizations, their countywide workforce was experiencing transition fatigue, uncertainty, and mounting stress especially among frontline staff and leadership teams. They needed a workshop that not only named what was hard, but also gave people real tools to stay grounded and connected.
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Resources and References
- Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.
- Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.
- Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.
- Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.
- Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.
- Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.
- Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.
- Defining Leadership Burnout
- Leadership burnout occurs as a result of the leader feeling overloaded, underchallenged and/or worn out FROM Excessive and prolonged emotional, physical and mental stress.
Social Worker Appreciation of Greatness
The S.W.A.G (Social Worker Appreciation of Greatness) Awards Ceremony was established after an online celebration of historical African American social workers during Black History Month and local social workers during National Social Work Month by Vitamin C Healing. They reached out to community leaders in various sectors to gather nominations for local social workers who have made a positive impact in Greater Pittsburgh.
Through social media, 19 social workers were recognized for their selflessness, integrity, compassion, competence, and commitment to the profession. In March 2019, an intimate gathering was held to honor these individuals with certificates of appreciation.
The mission of the annual SWAG Awards is to celebrate the often-overlooked work of social workers who embody servant leadership through advocacy, social justice, generational healing, and community empowerment.
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Leaders were overwhelmed. Staff were shutting down. We gave them tools to navigate the pressure, protect their energy, and show up fully again without losing themselves in the process.
Employee Wellness Program
Custom Programs, Retreats and Speaking Engagements
Sharise collaborates with organizations to design unique wellness experiences, from one-day trainings to multi-week programs and retreats, tailored to the needs of your team.
Sharise collaborates with organizations to design unique wellness experiences, from one-day trainings to multi-week programs and retreats, tailored to the needs of your team.
Custom Programs, Retreats and Speaking Engagements
Sharise collaborates with organizations to design unique wellness experiences, from one-day trainings to multi-week programs and retreats, tailored to the needs of your team.
Sharise collaborates with organizations to design unique wellness experiences, from one-day trainings to multi-week programs and retreats, tailored to the needs of your team.
A Note from Sharise
The work I do isn’t just professional—it’s personal. Every talk, every session, every book is rooted in a belief that when we heal ourselves, we heal our communities. My hope is that through my work, you find the courage to rest, reflect, and reconnect with your why.
Credentials and Recognition
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Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
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Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional (CCFP)
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Author of Walking the Tightrope and Snatched: From Trauma to Triumph
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Founder of Renewed Resilience, LLC
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Featured in conferences, wellness summits, and leadership events across the U.S.
The Approach
Employees left with actionable strategies they could apply immediately no fluff or theory overload. Leaders gained clarity on how to support their teams with empathy and structure.
The ripple effects included:
- Strengthened team resilience
- Boosted morale and psychological safety
- Tangible support for employee well-being and retention
- A shared language around grief, change, and workplace uncertainty
The ripple effects included:
- Strengthened team resilience
- Boosted morale and psychological safety
- Tangible support for employee well-being and retention
- A shared language around grief, change, and workplace uncertainty
The Approach
Employees left with actionable strategies they could apply immediately no fluff or theory overload. Leaders gained clarity on how to support their teams with empathy and structure.
Knowledge is power, Awareness is the first step in overcoming compassion fatigue. Sharise has created a variety of resources for people who are feeling burned out or are worried about someone they love who may be experiencing the impact of this condition.
Inspiring, evidence-informed talks and trainings that help organizations build emotionally healthy cultures.
Sharise delivers high-impact keynotes, workshops, and consulting sessions that equip teams to reduce burnout, strengthen resilience, and sustain compassionate, effective workplaces.
Speaker and facilitator for healthcare systems, nonprofits, and educational institutions nationwide
About Sharise Nance
Sharise is the co-owner and founder of HandinHand Counseling Services, LLC and has over 20 years of experience assisting individuals, couples and families see beyond energy depletion, hopelessness, panic, guilt and feeling overwhelmed and assists them in making a shift to a place of peace, joy, clarity and satisfaction.
Sharise also dedicates her efforts to running Vitamin C Healing, LLC a company that helps organizations prevent Leadership Burnout and Compassion Fatigue using a trauma sensitive and systems approach to create a supportive work culture that prioritizes work-life balance and integration.
With considerable experience speaking at keynotes, workshops, and seminars for helping professionals, mental health leaders, and entrepreneurs across the globe, she strives to equip individuals with the tools to tolerate the high demands of work and life, imposter syndrome as well as manage and prevent compassion fatigue and burnout in order to live happy, fulfilled lives and careers. With her depth of experience of working with a diverse population of people from all walks of life, Sharise is eager to share all that she’s learned.
Sharise Nance, LCSW, CCFP
National Speaker, Therapist, Author & Compassion Fatigue Specialist
Articles, podcasts, and interviews
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Awarded expert you can trust
Most recently, Sharise created the S.W.A.G. Awards: Social Worker Appreciation of Greatness Awards, to honor the “heart work” of local social workers in the Greater Pittsburgh area who often go unappreciated and unrecognized.
She resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband William Nance.
Books by Sharise
“The 5 Pillars of Self-Care”
“Walking the Tightrope: Managed Care and the Mental Health Clinician”
“The Productive Entrepreneur: The Secrets to Getting Everything Done”
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Prolonged Exposure to Others’ Pain and Trauma
Building Self-Awareness
Recognizing early warning signs in oneself.
Practicing Self-Compassion
Evidence on self-compassion’s role in reducing burnout. (Gentle self-talk, allowing mistakes, setting boundaries without guilt, creating space for joy and fun)
Emotional Boundaries
Develop and maintain emotional boundaries with clients. (Define boundaries, practice empathy, set emotional checkpoints, use mental closing practices)
Regular Reflection Practices
Journaling, meditation, and peer support as tools for maintaining emotional health.
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Building resilient teams without burning out the people who serve.
Your staff are tired, your leaders are stretched, and your mission is at risk. You need more than a speaker; you need a partner who can help shift the culture and sustain your people.
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Support your staff’s emotional health, improve team resilience, and create a culture of wellness. Sharise offers a variety of workshops and trainings tailored for organizational needs.
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Your staff are tired, your leaders are stretched, and your mission is at risk. You need more than a speaker; you need a partner who can help shift the culture and sustain your people.
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Keynotes, trainings, and resilience programs for organizations
Therapy and Coaching
For individuals seeking balance, purpose, and healing
Books and Resources
Tools for self-care, reflection, and emotional growth
The Invisible Injury
The Invisible Injury
Healthy Minds, Healthy Organizations
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Create Awareness and Self-Compassion
Regular self-check-ins. Practice self-compassion.
Clarify Core Values
Understand and align with your core values
Establish Healthy Boundaries
Set and maintain clear boundaries for yourself and with those you serve.
Engage in Hobbies
Find a hobby unrelated to your work.
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Common keynote and workshop themes include
Support your staff’s emotional health, improve team resilience, and create a culture of wellness. Sharise offers a variety of workshops and trainings tailored for organizational needs.
Professionals in helping fields rely on empathy to connect with and support clients. However, constantly taking on others’ emotional burdens can lead to empathy fatigue, where the helper’s own emotional reserves are drained by “feeling with” their clients.
Professionals in helping fields rely on empathy to connect with and support clients. However, constantly taking on others’ emotional burdens can lead to empathy fatigue, where the helper’s own emotional reserves are drained by “feeling with” their clients.
Professionals in helping fields rely on empathy to connect with and support clients. However, constantly taking on others’ emotional burdens can lead to empathy fatigue, where the helper’s own emotional reserves are drained by “feeling with” their clients.
Professionals in helping fields rely on empathy to connect with and support clients. However, constantly taking on others’ emotional burdens can lead to empathy fatigue, where the helper’s own emotional reserves are drained by “feeling with” their clients.
Professionals in helping fields rely on empathy to connect with and support clients. However, constantly taking on others’ emotional burdens can lead to empathy fatigue, where the helper’s own emotional reserves are drained by “feeling with” their clients.
Professionals in helping fields rely on empathy to connect with and support clients. However, constantly taking on others’ emotional burdens can lead to empathy fatigue, where the helper’s own emotional reserves are drained by “feeling with” their clients.
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