Meet Shannan
Creating Conscious Brands, Platforms & Products for Modern Life and Leadership
Shannan Slevin is a co-founder & creator designing conscious brands, programs, and products for modern life and leadership.
Over the past decade, Shannan has partnered with Fortune 500 companies and world-class brands including Jim Beam, Vistage Group, Kaiser Permanente, Pandora, Adobe, Athleta, and Martha Stewart, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Yoga Journal, TIME OUT, and 7x7 Magazine.
A lifelong student of yoga who began practicing as a teenager, she has spent more than 15 years teaching integrative wellness and mindful leadership. She holds a BA in Communications and certifications in Yoga (RYT – YogaWorks, San Francisco), the GYROTONIC® Expansion System, SCOTT Pilates, Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching (AADP), and The Wonder Method (energy and nervous-system work).
Her work follows a clear through-line: human potential expands when the systems that shape daily life (how we move, work, consume, and reflect) are designed with intention.
Informed by both her somatic training and her background in technology sales, Shannan brings a rare blend of embodied intelligence, behavioral science, and business strategy to every venture she’s apart of.
She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Civil Doody™, an eco-forward pet product and printing platform that transforms everyday rituals into moments of reflection, humor, and human connection; demonstrating how even the most ordinary behaviors can become meaningful when design, philosophy, and sustainability converge.
Alongside Civil Doody, Shannan leads workday wellness and leadership programs that help high-performing professionals reduce stress, restore energy, and stay mentally sharp in today’s fast-paced work culture.
Through corporate workshops, retreats, and speaking engagements, she supports leadership teams, remote organizations, and creative companies in building resilience, focus, and sustainable performance.
A globally mobile founder with deep San Franciscan roots and Portuguese and Irish heritage, Shannan designs brands and platforms that quietly reshape culture through everyday rituals, human-centered systems, and conscious design.
Her lifelong curiosity about culture, both her own and the wider world, shaped a lifestyle of working while traveling and led to the creation of Well-Traveled Blueprints, a creative laboratory for location-independent living that weaves travel, philosophy, neuroscience, and embodied wellness into practical systems for living and leading with clarity anywhere.
“Shannan’s work is absolutely exceptional! I am not the type of person who does yoga, meditates, does breathing exercises, etc., so her work was foreign to me. Needless to say, I was a bit skeptical. However, after participating in a few sessions with her, I realized that her work has immense power. Her ability to connect with skeptical audiences (aka me) and help them become more productive, present, and purposeful during the work day is an incredible value. Every manager and leader should speak with Shannan to figure out how their teams and employees can benefit from partnering with her.”
— Zach Ursiny, CCC Advantage Coaching & Training
“I think every entrepreneur, business professional, conference and company could benefit from Shannan Slevin.”,
Jared Kleinert, Founder of Offsite and USA Today’s “Most Connected Millennial”
“Shannan was great to work with and is an amazing service for stress and anxiety management while boosting energy, inspiration, morale.”
Winnie LI, Executive Administrator Super{Set} Startup Studio
“Shannan is an absolute pleasure to work with and a true expert in her art. We’ve experienced different elements of her programming and teaching repertoire, all of which have been above and beyond.”
Alicia Schmidt, Senior Executive EventLink
“Every manager and leader should speak with Shannan to figure out how their teams and employees can benefit from partnering with her.”
Zach Ursiny, CCC Advantage Coaching & Training
Timeline
2001
I began practicing yoga in my early adolescents in the living room of my first teacher, Karen Barbarick. Karen offered me my first teaching opportunity in Northern California 10 years later
2010
Earned my yoga certification in San Francisco while working in tech sales, and began teaching part-time in SF and Oakland
2013
Earned Pilates and Gyrotonic Expansion System certifications and started teaching movement modalities in San Francisco, expanding into a private teaching business
2014
Left software sales to teach and coach full-time and build the community program, SHOWGA™ (A Live Concert on you Yoga Mat)
2015
Earned Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching certification out of New York
2016
SHOWGA™ expanded into B2B, experiential marketing events, and into large festivals across the west coast, US
2018
Launched WellFests, a workday wellness service offering movement, meditation, and stretch breaks designed to boost energy, focus, and well-being throughout the day
2019
Created Executive Wellness Coaching to help CEOs and global leaders perform at their best—delivering high-touch sessions and keynotes at leadership retreats and events around the world, weaving wellness seamlessly into the executive experience.
2021
WellFests expanded to support corporations globally, delivering wellness sessions across the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Mexico and India
2022
Launched Take A Breather, a wellness initiative developed in partnership with a nationwide B2B company to bring desk-friendly movement and mindfulness breaks to workplaces across the country
2025
Launched Well-Traveled Blueprint (coaching for business travel)
Building Civil Doody™ (stealth mode)
2026
Civil Doody™ (coming soon!)
