Better Being helps executives, professionals and entrepreneurs move toward a goal that matters to them, while protecting their health, relationships and personal life.
“Getting better shouldn’t require losing yourself along the way.”
I am an entrepreneur and the founder of Better Being. Since 2021 I have worked at the intersection of leadership, health and human performance around one central question: how do you help ambitious people sustain a high standard without their health, their clarity or their relationships constantly paying for it?
I come from a Chinese immigrant family. My parents didn't wait for opportunities to appear; they created their own. Working alongside them at a young age taught me discipline, responsibility and the value of building your own path.
Basketball was my first performance arena. It taught me intensity, progression and the value of a team behind every result. Entrepreneurship became the second.
As I built Better Being, developed programs and worked with executives, entrepreneurs and organizations, I kept seeing the same pattern: the most capable people often learn to compensate for their limits instead of building the support they actually need.
I lived it too. For several years, Better Being's results became inseparable from my identity. That experience forced me to revisit my own habits, understand my thresholds better, and surround myself with people who could support my performance more precisely.
My role today is to turn those lessons into concrete support. I connect the needs of the people we work with to the expertise, the tools and the interventions that can genuinely help them.
With Michel Venne and our network of specialists, we are building the structure I would have wanted earlier in my own path.
Better Being wasn't born from a perfect formula. It was born from a conviction: getting better shouldn't require losing yourself along the way.
Shi Diwen Zhu · Founder and President
Who carries the work
Two perspectives that complete each other.
Shi sees what ambition demands of an entrepreneur and an organization. Michel sees what it asks of body and mind. Better Being needs both.
Shi Diwen Zhu
Founder and President
He connects the needs of people and organizations to the expertise, tools and interventions that can genuinely help them. He is involved with One Young World and the Jeune Chambre de commerce de Montréal.
Michel Venne
Partner and Director of Human Performance
He currently leads the Better Being Program as lead coach. A physiotherapist, osteopath and executive coach, he led an integrative health clinic and is a guest lecturer in Concordia’s EMBA program. A former semi-professional athlete, he was also a mental performance coach for the Canadian karate team.
The network · 15+ specialists
MovementMental preparationNutritionHealth and recoveryLeadership
Our values
Ambition needs structure and support.
Rather than doing more, we help people make better choices: about effort, about support and about how the work gets done.
Understand the situation clearly and precisely before proposing a solution.
Help people advance toward their goal while protecting what matters in their life.
Work alongside the client, with one person responsible for coordinating the support.
Prepare carefully, deliver well and adjust when the service is not helping enough.
Our vision
Redefine performance: progress on what matters while continuing to live well.
Our mission
Support ambitious people in their important goals, with structure, a lead coach and the right expertise at the right time, taking their health, relationships and personal life into account.
A verifiable track record
What we have already done.
Since 2021, across all services: training, workshops, activations and events.
2021Founded in Montréal
30+Organizations supported
100+Interventions delivered
15+Specialists, bilingual network
Organizations Better Being has worked with
Individual coaching with Michel Venne
Michel has a rare gift for asking the one question that cuts straight to clarity. He challenged my thinking, sharpened my message word by word, and pushed me to stop perfecting and start acting: a clearer offer, a stronger program, and far more confidence in the direction I am taking.
Florin L. · Managing Director · Tribe AG
Michel had a significant impact on my performance, both personal and professional. The methods he teaches to improve focus, performance and intensity helped me take on several challenges successfully.
Drawing on his coaching experience, he quickly identified my main areas for improvement and helped me find a better balance, supporting both my development and my results.
Anthonin Manca · Director, Asset Management and Global Reliability, ArcelorMittalOne conversation at a time, in the real context of the role.
