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When leaders start living healthier, more balanced lives, and encouraging their people to do the same, it completely changes how they "show up", according to an executive who speaks from hard-won experience.

Change and transformation director Natalie Tesolin leads a team of 20 people in a public sector agency, and she takes their wellbeing goals as seriously as their career goals.

When it comes to herself, however, this wasn't always the case.

About 15 years ago, right as she was finishing her degree to become an HR professional, Tesolin was diagnosed with myeloid leukemia. Rather than put her studies on hold, she completed them from a hospital bed. And when she got out, her top priority wasn't her health, it was her career.

"I literally placed work as the most important thing in my life... I was just so focused," she tells HR Daily...