Stress - Hack Your Way to Optimal Performance

Stress - Hack Your Way to Optimal Performance

Thursday 15 May 6:30-8pm, live Zoom webinar after registration via Eventbrite. Up to 2 CPE for attendance.

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Date and time

Thu, 15 May 2025 17:30 - 19:10 UTC

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 40 minutes

Date/Time: Thursday,15 May 2025 6.30 pm to 8.10 pm UK time

Format: Live webinar: Live Zoom webinar after registration via Eventbrite. Up to 2 CPE for attendance.

Location: Virtual

Title : Stress - Hack Your Way to Optimal Performance

Synopsis:

In today's fast-paced corporate environment, stress has become an inevitable part of our professional lives. This webinar aims to demystify stress by exploring its nature, causes, impact and the various stressors prevalent in the workplace. Our speaker, award-winning stress hacker Helen Sampson CPC, ELI-MP, will be drawing from personal experiences and industry-specific scenarios to highlight how stress can affect the workforce. We’ll also delve into some effective coping strategies for the types of stress ISACA members are most likely to face within their roles. Participants will learn to identify early signs of stress and gain practical advice for thriving in high-stress industries. Additionally, we will discuss the impact of chronic stress on job performance and decision-making and how organisations can support their employees in managing stress effectively.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understanding stress: Definition and nature of stress.
  • Causes of stress: Common triggers and underlying factors.
  • Is stress really that bad for you?: Examining the impact stress has on us.
  • Workplace stressors: Specific stressors in the corporate environment.
  • Personal experience: Insights from Helen’s 10-year career in the legal industry.
  • Coping strategies: Effective methods for managing incident-related and stakeholder management stress.
  • Early signs of stress: How to recognise the initial indicators of stress.
  • Advice for new professionals: Tips for those starting their careers in high-stress industries.
  • Impact of chronic stress: Effects on job performance and decision-making.
  • Organisational support: Strategies organisations can adopt to manage stress in the workplace.

Speaker: Helen Sampson CPC, ELI-MP, CTDS Award-winning stress hacker

Helen Sampson is an award-winning stress hacker, transitions expert and founder of Uncouple, a company dedicated to ending the stress epidemic using proven, science-based methods. Recognised as one of the UK’s top 100 female business leaders, Helen leverages her extensive corporate experience gained from a decade in London’s legal industry to help individuals and businesses stress-hack their way to success. She developed the concept of mesotrauma® to highlight the combined effect of daily stressors and their impact. Her innovative approach enables clients to achieve an optimised state, whether that’s enhancing company productivity and employee engagement or improving personal health and fulfilment – the results are tangible, transformative and sustainable.

Any questions? Please contact admin@isaca-london.org


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ISACA® is the voice of the information systems audit, IT governance, risk management and cybersecurity professions. For over 50 years, ISACA has helped enterprises develop strong IT workforces by inspiring and equipping individuals to be more capable, valuable and successful in the fast-changing world of information technology and business. By offering industry-leading knowledge, standards, credentialing and education, ISACA enables professionals to apply technology in ways that instill confidence, address threats, drive innovation and create positive momentum for their organizations. ISACA is the creator of the COBIT framework, which helps organizations effectively govern and manage their information and technology. Through its Cybersecurity Nexus (CSX), ISACA helps organizations develop skilled cyber workforces and enables individuals to grow and advance their cyber careers.

 

The ISACA London Chapter, the first in the UK, was established in 1981 and is celebrating its 39th Anniversary this year.  London Chapter, covering London and the South and East of England, has almost 4,000 members who come from a wide cross-section of business including the accountancy and information systems professions, central and local government, the banking, manufacturing and service sectors and academia.  Anyone with an interest in the control of Information Systems is welcome to join. The wide interests of the group are reflected in its objectives which include:

 

  • Promoting Chapter benefits with a focus on educating and helping expand the knowledge and skills of members in the inter-related fields of auditing, quality assurance, security, cyber and IT Governance;
  • Encouraging a free exchange of IT Governance, Quality Assurance, and Information Security techniques, approaches and problem solving by members;
  • Continually improving communications to keep members abreast of current events in the IT Governance, quality assurance, and security fields that can benefit them and their employers.

 

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