BURNOUT is LOUD. The TRIGGER is Quiet.
67% to 75% of U.S. Workers report Burnout in 2025
- A Statista survey of US workers found that 23% rated their burnout as high or very high, underscoring that a sizable minority are already overwhelmed in their daily work.
- Across multiple US-focused analyses, burnout prevalence commonly falls in the 66%–77% range, with up to 82% at risk depending on measurement methods, highlighting the ubiquity of the issue.
- SHRM’s 2024 coverage emphasizes worsening burnout trends in the US and their measurable impact on productivity and well-being, reinforcing the urgency for systemic workplace interventions
The Pattern
Wiring
Across organizations of all sizes, we see something show up consistently:
When someone's nervous system learned early that "emotions = danger," it creates automatic responses such as numbing, avoidance, reaction, or shutdown — as protective mechanisms.
These patterns often develop in childhood or adolescence. By the time people join the workforce, they've been practicing them for 20-30 years.
And it's not because they're not trying. It's because the wiring runs deep.
This can show up as:
- Burnout and emotional exhaustion, even among high performers
- Voluntary turnover, especially on teams with stressed managers
- Presenteeism — physically present, but mentally running at partial capacity
- Hesitation to speak up, which slows execution and innovation
- Conflict avoidance that creates downstream delays
- Reactivity under pressure that affects decisions and relationships
Here's the hopeful part: When you address the wiring at the nervous system level, you can shift the trajectory, not just for that person, but for their team, their family, and even the next generation.
WHY TRIGGERZ® MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU'VE TRIED
1. It Addresses the Layer Underneath
2. Designed for How the Brain Actually Changes
2. Designed for How the Brain Actually Changes
Many wellness programs teach helpful stress management techniques. TRIGGERZ® goes one layer deeper, helping people rewire their nervous system's interpretation of stress in the first place, so the methods they've learned can actually land.
2. Designed for How the Brain Actually Changes
2. Designed for How the Brain Actually Changes
2. Designed for How the Brain Actually Changes
The emotional brain (limbic system) doesn't respond to information or frameworks. It responds to felt experience, safety, and repetition.
Here's an example we love: Ernest Hemingway wrote at an 8th-grade reading level. His work is taught at Harvard.
Accessible doesn't mean simplistic; it means effective.
TRIGGERZ® is built on sophisticated
The emotional brain (limbic system) doesn't respond to information or frameworks. It responds to felt experience, safety, and repetition.
Here's an example we love: Ernest Hemingway wrote at an 8th-grade reading level. His work is taught at Harvard.
Accessible doesn't mean simplistic; it means effective.
TRIGGERZ® is built on sophisticated neuroscience, but delivered in a way that reaches the part of the brain that drives behavior.
That's why the same core curriculum works for teens and executives: emotional dysregulation isn't an age problem, it's a wiring problem.
3. In-Person Delivery Creates Real Rewiring
2. Designed for How the Brain Actually Changes
4. It's Structured, Measurable, and Progressive
Nervous system change happens through co-regulation, being in the presence of someone whose system is calm. That requires physical presence, mirror neuron attunement, and oxytocin release. Virtual can support, but in-person creates the conditions for lasting change.
4. It's Structured, Measurable, and Progressive
4. It's Structured, Measurable, and Progressive
4. It's Structured, Measurable, and Progressive
Six volumes. 36 sessions. You start with Volume I as a pilot, measure results using YOUR organization's data (not vendor case studies), and scale progressively based on what you learn.
5. Three Ways to Partner
4. It's Structured, Measurable, and Progressive
5. Three Ways to Partner
Student Path: We deliver directly to your team
Instructor Path: We train your internal facilitators
Custom Integrated: A tailored combination, including 1:1 executive coaching for key leaders
About Shaw Enterprises, LLC
WHAT A VOLUME I PILOT LOOKS LIKE
11-Week Roadmap:
Weeks 1-2: Baseline measurement (burnout, regulation, psychological safety, turnover, absenteeism, engagement) + participant enrollment
Weeks 3-8: Six weekly 1-hour in-person sessions
Weeks 9-11: 21-day practice challenge + post-measurement
What You Receive: Executive Impact Report comparing your baseline to post-pilot results, with thoughtful recommendations for scaling based on what the data shows.
WHY PARTNER WITH SHAW ENTERPRISES
Britney Valas, Founder
Britney opened a franchise six weeks before COVID. Instead of shutting down, she built systems, developed her team using emotional intelligence principles, and moved a low-ranked location to sustained top-1-5 national performance.
She built TRIGGERZ® on five years of personal transformation and 30+ years of peer-reviewed research on trauma, resilience, and nervous system regulation.
Her core belief: When you heal the source, you change the legacy.
WHAT'S POSSIBLE FROM HERE
If things stay as they are, here's what research suggests continues each quarter:
300-person company: $300K–$375K in burnout-related costs
700-person company: $700K–$875K
2,000-person company: $2M–$2.5M
The wellness investments you've made matter. They're helping people. And if burnout, turnover, and presenteeism persist despite those efforts, it may simply mean there's one more layer worth exploring: the nervous system wiring underlying them.
TRIGGERZ® is designed to work alongside what you already have, addressing the foundation so everything else can become more effective.
Here's How We Begin:
Shaw Enterprises partners with a thoughtfully limited number of organizations each year so we can bring depth, care, and measurable outcomes to every engagement.
If you're curious, here's what happens next:
Submit a brief inquiry using the form below
Meet with Britney Valas (Founder) for a candid, exploratory conversation, no pitch, just discovery
Receive a tailored proposal with clear success metrics, measurement plan, and investment details
If it's a mutual fit, launch your Volume I pilot with baseline and post-measurement built in
We'd genuinely love to explore this with you.