About Us
About Us
Snjezana Pruginic is the Founder and CEO of Circle Point Wellness, where she helps leaders build stronger, safer, and more resilient workplaces. With 25+ years of experience working across public sector systems and high-pressure environments, she advises executive and operational leaders on how to navigate conflict, pressure, and organizational stress without losing trust, accountability, or performance.
Her work sits at the intersection of workplace culture, conflict capability, and operational resilience. Drawing on a background in applied neuroscience, de-escalation, and organizational change, Snjezana equips leaders with practical, evidence-informed strategies to address tension early, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, protect psychological safety, and stabilize teams during periods of crisis, rapid change, or ongoing strain.
Known for translating complex human and team dynamics into clear, actionable leadership practice, she works with organizations that want more than surface-level culture work. Her focus is helping workplaces function better under pressure so people can communicate more effectively, respond to hard moments with care and clarity, and do good work together.
Her work sits at the intersection of workplace culture, conflict capability, and operational resilience. Drawing on a background in applied neuroscience, de-escalation, and organizational change, Snjezana equips leaders with practical, evidence-informed strategies to address tension early, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, protect psychological safety, and stabilize teams during periods of crisis, rapid change, or ongoing strain.
Known for translating complex human and team dynamics into clear, actionable leadership practice, she works with organizations that want more than surface-level culture work. Her focus is helping workplaces function better under pressure so people can communicate more effectively, respond to hard moments with care and clarity, and do good work together.
Snjezana's background...from therapy, to war zones, to jails, communities, front line and boardooms
Snjezana's background and work as a community builder, social justice advocate, somatic trauma therapist, and consultant has given her deep insight into the challenges faced by individuals in crisis and conflict. She has spent large part of her career working with people impacted by systemic barriers, violence, war, and incarceration. Her exemplary program Moving Forward / Hacia Adelante was implemented across Bosnia and Herzegovina with survivors of war, Colombia with former child soldiers, in Toronto inside maximum security jails and communities experiencing violence. She has also spent over a decade working as a Youth Justice Worker and Crisis and Restorative Justice Practitioner, supporting communities in resolving some of the most challenging conflicts and crises.
Inspired by her over 23 years in private therapeutic practice, where many clients' primary stressor was their workplace, Snjezana transitioned to adapting her learnings into strategies for healthier, more collaborative work environments. She pioneered a program for the trades Stress-Success Factor, which has been implemented in several trade apprenticeship training programs. Since creating Circle Point Wellness in 2022, Snjezana has expanded her work to support over thousands of employees in academia, public sector and private sector and developing the proprietary model The Organizational Crisis Curve™
Snjezana is also the host and creator of Feel Good Work Podcast, popular Future of Work Blog on Linkedin, and sold out Connecting for Change Dinners.
Inspired by her over 23 years in private therapeutic practice, where many clients' primary stressor was their workplace, Snjezana transitioned to adapting her learnings into strategies for healthier, more collaborative work environments. She pioneered a program for the trades Stress-Success Factor, which has been implemented in several trade apprenticeship training programs. Since creating Circle Point Wellness in 2022, Snjezana has expanded her work to support over thousands of employees in academia, public sector and private sector and developing the proprietary model The Organizational Crisis Curve™
Snjezana is also the host and creator of Feel Good Work Podcast, popular Future of Work Blog on Linkedin, and sold out Connecting for Change Dinners.
Our Team of Trainers and Consultants
Our Team of Trainers and Consultants
Juno Zavitz
Juno Zavitz
Juno Zavitz (he/him) is a consultant, coach and facilitator for non-profits, workers in social services, and community members in caregiving roles. He has 10+ years experience in frontline and management work in addictions, harm reduction, housing, and bereavement, and most loves working with people and teams moving through loss, burn out - communities that are in need of repair and solidarity. His background in this work comes from formal education in social work and psychotherapy, chaplaincy and theology, end of life care, and visual arts.
Juno is a transman who additionally identifies as having lived experience as a former high-risk drug user, and who believes deeply in transformative justice models and right for all persons to access care..
Juno is a transman who additionally identifies as having lived experience as a former high-risk drug user, and who believes deeply in transformative justice models and right for all persons to access care..
Shulamit Sappire
Shulamit Sappire
Shully is a wellness practitioner, facilitator, and community worker dedicated to fostering equitable, inclusive spaces. Centering wellness through an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed lens, Shully prioritizes the needs of queer and trans individuals, as well as Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities. Drawing from lived experience as a Black queer femme navigating chronic illness, their work is rooted in non-hierarchy, disability justice, gender justice, racial equity, and caregiving. Passionate about reimagining community care, Shully invites collaboration to build transformative, barrier-free wellness practices.
Lucinda Qu
Lucinda Qu
Lucinda Qu (she/her) is a researcher, facilitator, and advocate dedicated to reimagining crisis response and mental health support. She holds a MSc in Global Mental Health from the University of Edinburgh, is an alumna of the University of Toronto, and has primarily lived—as an uninvited guest and second-generation immigrant—on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Over the last five years, Lucinda has co-created and investigated non-police crisis response programs across North America while leading workshops on youth mental health, peer support, crisis intervention, and anti-oppression. Her long-term vision is to help build a world where care of all kinds is inclusive, holistic, and grounded in justice, ensuring everyone has the support they need in their most vulnerable moments.
Our Associate Trainers and Consultants
Our Associate Trainers and Consultants
Rebeckah Price
Rebeckah Price
Rebeckah Price is a community builder, yoga and meditation instructor + advocate and consultant with a lifelong passion for creating belonging in community.
Rebeckah also spends her time advocating for more diverse, accessible and inclusive wellness spaces, with a background in community development, place making and policy she spends her time educating others and creating ways for a more diverse, equitable and inclusive wellness industry.
Rebeckah also spends her time advocating for more diverse, accessible and inclusive wellness spaces, with a background in community development, place making and policy she spends her time educating others and creating ways for a more diverse, equitable and inclusive wellness industry.
Zainib Abdullah
Zainib Abdullah (MSW, RSW) is the founder and executive director at Wellnest, a Toronto-based mental health clinic. The Wellnest team - a collective of diverse psychotherapists - focuses on supporting the needs of the BIPOC community. She holds her Masters in Social Work from the University of Toronto.
Asha Frost
Asha Frost
Asha Frost is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) healer, best-selling author, speaker and guide. Drawing on her ancestral knowledge and innate gifts, Asha has become a prominent figure in the field of Indigenous healing, garnering recognition on both local and international platforms.
As an author, Asha has eloquently captured the essence of Indigenous wisdom in her written words. Her book, You are the Medicine and deck, The Sacred Medicine Oracle
are powerful testaments to the healing potential that lies within us all.
As an author, Asha has eloquently captured the essence of Indigenous wisdom in her written words. Her book, You are the Medicine and deck, The Sacred Medicine Oracle
are powerful testaments to the healing potential that lies within us all.
Jeff Carolin
Jeff Carolin
Jeff Carolin (he/him) is a qualified mediator, restorative & transformative justice facilitator, and conflict & communication coach who works with a range of workplaces and community groups. Using a gentle, warm, and slow approach, he also supports all manner of team-building, healing and grief processes. In these polarized times, Jeff has been engaging in dialogue efforts across the spectrum of opinion in his own Jewish community while also working with Palestinian community members through a lens of collective liberation. Previous to this work, Jeff spent more than a decade defending all manner of criminal charges for people impacted by poverty, racism, and ableism.
Tera McDonald
Tera McDonald
Tera McDonald (she/they) is a visionary, a two-spirit Mi’kmaw leader whose entrepreneurial spirit is woven through media, education, mentorship and reconciliation-based consulting.As the CEO of Kalawikk Diversity Inc., Tera developed Reconciliation 3-6-5, a transformative program rooted in Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) that’s actively helping organizations across the country walk the path of Truth and Reconciliation - not just once, but every day.
Anoushka Fernandes
Anoushka Fernandes
Anoushka Fernandes is a respected executive leader with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Throughout her career, she has been recognized for her ability to successfully transform teams from good to great; and to provide calm and steady leadership in the face of chaotic situations. She has supported teams to effectively execute business continuity plans in the face of physical and digital threats, and to build trusting relationships which are positively leveraged to resolve points of conflict.
Alyssa Milot
Alyssa Milot
Alyssa is a Fractional Operations Leader, working with founders and their leadership teams to fix the operational bottlenecks that appear as companies scale. Improving execution, increasing accountability, and reducing day-to-day owner dependence.
She works hands-on with leadership teams to implement and fully adopt a structured Management System. Resulting in improved operational efficiency, EBITDA growth and founder independence for scale or sale.
"For more than two decades, I've dedicated myself to the intersection of well-being and social justice. I firmly believe that creating a better world requires a holistic approach: nurturing ourselves, supporting one another, and safeguarding our planet. This conviction has led me to focus on transforming our workplaces.
I'm convinced that this transformation is a collective endeavor. It calls for us to show up authentically, embrace accountability, and cultivate a profound, compassionate self-awareness. Only then can we truly connect with one another as fellow human beings.
We must critically examine our work practices, both within our organizations and in their broader impact on the world. Are we inadvertently causing harm, or are we actively contributing to a future where both people and the planet can flourish? This question is at the heart of the change I seek to inspire."
Snjezana Pruginic
HONORING WHERE WE ARE- Land Acknowledgement
Even though we work globally, our offices are on the traditional unceded territory of Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations. As treaty people on this land, we acknowledge the collective, yet uniquely, and individually distinct responsibility of repairing the harms and preventing further harm caused by the White supremacist, colonial, systems which impact all parts of society, and which are directly responsible for the violent physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, and the forced enslavement of people of African decent on these lands.
In our work we are accountable to all care practices that are not entangled with, and structured in punishment, surveillance and control. Care practices which are land based, and built on mutual support. Practices indigenous to all of our ancestors, and stolen from many. In our work we bring the history of our own individual ancestries, as well as the rich genealogy of deep lineage of care present in Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) communities. Communities from which self-determined care has been stolen through the legacy and present day reality of colonialism, supremacy and binary based systems. We actively center the QTBIPOC voices and aim to ensure that we are taking leadership in care by those who experience most harm.
Even though we work globally, our offices are on the traditional unceded territory of Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations. As treaty people on this land, we acknowledge the collective, yet uniquely, and individually distinct responsibility of repairing the harms and preventing further harm caused by the White supremacist, colonial, systems which impact all parts of society, and which are directly responsible for the violent physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, and the forced enslavement of people of African decent on these lands.
In our work we are accountable to all care practices that are not entangled with, and structured in punishment, surveillance and control. Care practices which are land based, and built on mutual support. Practices indigenous to all of our ancestors, and stolen from many. In our work we bring the history of our own individual ancestries, as well as the rich genealogy of deep lineage of care present in Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) communities. Communities from which self-determined care has been stolen through the legacy and present day reality of colonialism, supremacy and binary based systems. We actively center the QTBIPOC voices and aim to ensure that we are taking leadership in care by those who experience most harm.