Anita Roach

Founder of Safe and Sound Workplace Alliance
Safe and Sound Workplace Alliance

Anita Roach bridges the gap between humanity and hierarchy as the founder of the Safe & Sound Workplace Alliance and the author of Safe & Sound: Cultivating a Whole-human, Trauma-informed Approach for Employee and Employer Well-being. She brings over 30 years of experience as a consultant, advisor, and leader working with professional services firms throughout the United States. She specializes in guiding teams in creating environments and processes where both people and profits flourish. Anita’s passion for fostering whole-human, trauma-informed workplaces stems from her deep personal understanding of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. This lived experience, combined with her professional expertise and background in psychology, global leadership, and wellness, informs the research, frameworks, and strategies she shares to help organizations create Safe & Sound Workplaces. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Excelsior University, a Diploma in Global Leadership from The U.N.-Established University of Peace, and certifications as a Trauma-Informed Coach, Chief Well-Being Officer, Holistic Health Coach, CultureTalk Partner, and Strengths Practitioner.

Presentations During This Conference:

Breakout Session (repeat): Systems Out of Sync: When Institutional Design Fails the Whole Humans that Power Them - Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 11 AM

Presentation Slides

Our systems are shaped by history, hierarchy, and unspoken expectations, often built for control, not care. When those systems inadvertently collide with the human systems of the individuals they employee they generate harm, not just stress–for both their people and their profits. This session invites you to look beneath burnout, disengagement, and behavioral challenges to see what’s really driving them: institutional design that’s out of sync with the needs of the whole humans who keep those systems running. Through a whole-human, trauma-informed lens, Anita will bring awareness to the foundational conditions on which organizations are built—and why fixing our institutional systems, rather than trying to override the innate human responses that haven’t changed in millennia, is the most direct and sustainable path to meaningful change for our workers, workplaces, and the world.

Breakout Session: Systems Out of Sync: When Institutional Design Fails the Whole Humans that Power Them - Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM

Presentation Slides

Our systems are shaped by history, hierarchy, and unspoken expectations, often built for control, not care. When those systems inadvertently collide with the human systems of the individuals they employee they generate harm, not just stress–for both their people and their profits. This session invites you to look beneath burnout, disengagement, and behavioral challenges to see what’s really driving them: institutional design that’s out of sync with the needs of the whole humans who keep those systems running. Through a whole-human, trauma-informed lens, Anita will bring awareness to the foundational conditions on which organizations are built—and why fixing our institutional systems, rather than trying to override the innate human responses that haven’t changed in millennia, is the most direct and sustainable path to meaningful change for our workers, workplaces, and the world.