Squash the Sunday Scaries:

A practical virtual workshop on rebuilding trust, strengthening culture, and creating a better employee experience

What if fewer people started Sunday night already dreading Monday morning?

Join Culture First Seattle for a virtual workshop with Mary Baird, PHR, Employee Experience Strategist, keynote speaker, author of Squash the Sunday Scaries, and host of The Simplifiers Podcast.

Together, we’ll explore what’s contributing to burnout, disengagement, and eroding trust at work — and what people leaders can do to create a better employee experience.

Rather than trying to fix everything at once, this session will focus on practical, human-centered ways to strengthen culture and create meaningful momentum inside our organizations.

What You’ll Learn

In this practical, energizing session, you’ll learn how to:

• Recognize the workplace conditions that fuel the Sunday Scaries, including eroding trust, unclear expectations, poor communication, and employee burnout.

• Identify simple, human-centered changes leaders can make to improve the employee experience and help people feel valued, supported, and motivated.

• Turn insight into action by choosing practical steps you can begin implementing immediately within your team or organization.

You’ll Walk Away With

A clearer understanding of what may be causing disengagement within your workplace, practical tools for creating a healthier team culture, and a simple plan to help your people move from merely surviving at work to thriving.

🎥 Get a sneak peek
Want a taste of the conversation? Watch this short preview of Squash the Sunday Scaries on YouTube.

Meet Mary Baird, PHR

Mary Baird, PHR is an Employee Experience Strategist, speaker, workshop facilitator, and founder of The Simplifiers. Her work focuses on helping organizations rebuild trust, strengthen culture, and create better workplaces through practical, actionable change.

She is also the host of The Simplifiers Podcast and author of Squash the Sunday Scaries.

Who should join us?

This gathering is designed for people who influence how work feels and works — including HR and People leaders, culture and employee experience practitioners, people managers, organizational leaders, and anyone curious about creating healthier, more human workplaces.

📅Thursday, November 12

⏰ 4:00pm PT

💻 Virtual| Zoom

Register now and join us as we explore how thoughtful, practical shifts in the employee experience can help make Mondays feel a whole lot less scary.