Ep. 32 Ginny McKenna on Creating Resilient Cultures

Ginny McKenna on Creating Healthy Agency Cultures of Resilience, speaking with Susanne Knabe-Nicol. 21-year Scottish police veteran and PTSD survivor, Ginny McKenna, shares her own experience with occupational stress injuries and her work as a certified police stress coach and critical incident support facilitator helping frontline police officers and police staff beat stress, move beyond trauma and transform their lives. The traumatic impact of misogynistic discrimination, harassment and bullying she experienced as a female police officer during the early years of her 21-year career (1999- 2000). How she took time off to work through her own trauma and suicidality before returning to active duty. The importance of removing the stigmas around mental health, of regular mental health check-ups for police officers and of making significant investments in the health and well-being of police officers. GINNY McKENNA Ginny McKenna is a retired 21-year Scottish police veteran and PTSD survivor who became a certified life coach and now helps frontline police officers and police staff beat stress, move beyond trauma and transform their lives. She is an ICF certified transformational life coach. Ginny did the hard work of recovering from and transforming her own trauma and PTSD and is now committed to helping other officers face their greatest mental health challenges as a certified police stress coach and critical incident support facilitator.

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