You are outwardly successful.
And privately exhausted.
This work is not for people in crisis. It is for people who are excellent at their lives and exhausted by them. High-achieving professionals come to Equilibrium by Design when they are performing at the highest level and quietly burning out behind it.
Trusted by lawyers, founders, and executives across Toronto, New York, London & Stockholm
What people are saying
Real shifts. Real people.
“I’d been going back and forth on a job change for months. What was different here was that we actually broke down how I make decisions, where I get stuck, why I stall. I made the decision within three weeks. For once, I didn’t second-guess myself into the ground after.”
“My burnout wasn’t dramatic. I was just tired all the time and had stopped enjoying basically everything. We looked at how I was building my weeks and it became clear fast. I plan differently now. I don’t hit that same wall anymore.”
“The book put words to something I’d been carrying for years, that specific combination of ambition and anxiety that doesn’t make sense to most people around you. Coaching helped me actually do something with it. I recover faster now.”
Where do you want to start?
Choose your path
Three entry points. All grounded in the same framework. Pick the one that fits where you are right now.
1:1 Coaching
For people navigating burnout, transition, or identity
A focused 50-minute session to break down your patterns, map what’s driving the exhaustion, and build a clear path forward. Personal, direct, evidence-based.
The Collective
For women who want depth, community, and growth
Most women in your position are navigating this alone. The Collective is for the ones who are done with that. Monthly masterclasses, live circles, and events in Toronto and beyond.
The Book
For solo reading and daily practice
Anxious & Ambitious, a 90-day clinically reviewed journal for high-achievers who are outwardly succeeding and inwardly exhausted. A structured system to rewire anxiety and rebuild confidence.
The founder
Shien Victoria Zutshi
Shien spent years interviewing CEOs, C-suite executives, founders, and global leaders — including at Collision Conference — distilling what high performers actually do to sustain success without losing themselves. That research became the foundation of Equilibrium by Design, deepened by graduate clinical training in counselling psychotherapy at Yorkville University.
Of Kashmiri and Punjabi heritage, Shien has lived and worked across multiple countries, and speaks five languages — English, French, Hindi, Punjabi, and Swedish. That cross-cultural lens shapes everything she builds.
Before EBD, she spent nearly two decades in education, including a decade within the International Baccalaureate system. Schools, she observed, are microcosms of society — and the same dynamics that shape classrooms shape boardrooms, families, and the internal lives of high achievers.
She has designed and hosted curated events where the conversations that actually matter finally get to happen: art and identity, ambition and its costs, the immigrant journey, navigating life’s major transitions, and simply — how to breathe again.
Author of Anxious & Ambitious · MACP Candidate, Yorkville University · Advisory Council, World Bank Group
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Equilibrium by Design delivers wellbeing and performance programmes for law firms, IB schools, corporations, and public institutions.
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Every engagement starts with a free 15-minute discovery call.
No pressure. No pitch. Just a conversation.
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