Origin story
WellFests was founded on a simple but often overlooked truth: peak professional performance is unsustainable without personal well-being.
Founder & CEO Shannan Slevin didn’t arrive at corporate wellness from the sidelines—she built it from inside the modern workday.
Beginning her career in San Francisco software sales while simultaneously growing her wellness practice, Shannan experienced firsthand the physical and mental cost of high-performance, desk-bound culture. Long hours, relentless output, and sedentary systems weren’t just inefficient—they were quietly eroding human potential.
So she engineered a better model.
With over a decade of experience leading workplace wellness, Shannan combines a BA in Communications with advanced expertise across Yoga, Pilates, GYROTONIC®, Integrative Nutrition, Mindful Leadership, and performance-based mind-body methodologies.
Her curriculum wasn’t built in theory—it was strategically developed to meet the demands of modern professionals, executives, and distributed teams.
In 2015, Shannan’s trajectory expanded through mentorship with Chris Mittelstaedt, Founder of The FruitGuys, where entrepreneurial strategy met workplace well-being at scale.
Every idea starts with a problem. Ours was simple: Sitting all day at a keyboard, in a high stress job leads to mental burnout and physical injury.
Together, they launched FruitGuys TV and later co-developed Take a Breather On Demand—a pioneering wellness platform designed to seamlessly integrate movement and mindfulness into company culture.
When the pandemic reshaped work in 2020, Shannan was already ahead of the curve—launching recurring digital wellness breaks that helped teams stay resilient, energized, and connected during a global shift in workflow. What began as a solution quickly became a scalable system.
Since then, WellFests has grown into a premium global wellness resource for forward-thinking companies—delivering strategic wellness breaks, workshops, digital programming, and well-traveled wellbeing solutions for today’s professionals.
In short: WellFests helps companies protect their greatest asset—their people.
Because when well-being becomes part of workflow, performance doesn’t just improve—it compounds.