Leadership Resilience for High-Pressure Organisations
Assessment-led workshops that help leaders prevent burnout before it impacts performance and retention.
We equip leaders to spot early signs of burnout, address chronic stress early, and lead through pressure and change without sacrificing people or results.
1. Assessment
Measure leadership and team resilience.
Data-led insights to identify early indicators of burnout risk, and resilience development areas.
2. Training
Build resilience leadership capacity, through workshops, talks, and programs.
Delivered by experienced practitioners.
3. Leadership Support
Embed sustainable leadership practices through executive coaching and ongoing partnership, supporting leaders to apply insights and sustain change.
What We Offer
Leadership Resilience training, grounded in data and delivered with Integrity.
We provide assessment-led leadership resilience training through our WorkWell Series, a leadership lifecycle-based approach designed to support leaders from the start and at key stages of their leadership journey. From resilience assessment to targeted leadership development and ongoing support, we help organisations address chronic stress and early burnout, strengthen leadership capability, and support leaders to lead through change and demanding periods while protecting performance over time.
Start Well
Rise Well
Lead Well
Return Well
Stay Well
Social Impact
Why Choose Us
Assessment-led leadership resilience, grounded in real organisational context.
We are a boutique leadership resilience consultancy working with organisations that take performance, people, and responsibility seriously. Our work is assessment-led and research-informed, combining robust data with lived experience to help leaders navigate pressure, complexity, and change in today’s workplaces.
We take an inclusive, context-aware approach to resilience. Rather than applying one-size-fits-all solutions, we recognise how different roles, identities, environments, and expectations shape leadership experience and resilience at work. This allows us to partner with organisations in a way that is both commercially grounded and human-centred.
With over 50 years of combined experience across high-pressure industries, we understand the realities leaders face when balancing performance demands, team wellbeing, and organisational outcomes. As a values-led firm, we take corporate responsibility seriously — our work with clients also supports our wider social impact initiatives, ensuring our success contributes to positive change beyond the workplace.
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Our Team
Meet Our Team
Our work is delivered by an experienced team who bring complementary strengths to leadership resilience work. Led by Kai-Nneka Townsend, and supported by associates Phil Lunt and Sharon Pickering, we combine deep experience in high-pressure environments with a shared commitment to thoughtful, evidence-led practice.
Together, we bring decades of experience supporting leaders who are expected to deliver results while leading others and sustaining themselves in complex organisational contexts.
Our different perspectives strengthen the work, allowing us to challenge assumptions, adapt to varied leadership realities, and partner effectively with organisations across sectors.
As a boutique consultancy, we work closely and collaboratively with clients, offering continuity, discretion, and depth. Our focus is on long-term impact rather than one-off interventions, supporting leaders and organisations to build resilience that endures.
Kai-Nneka
Townsend
Founder/CEO
Sharon
Pickering
Associate
Phil
Lunt
Associate
"One of the best leadership development trainings I've attended. The practical tools, and the honest reflection helped me have a different approach to resilience for me and my team. I’m walking away with real steps I can apply at work and at home."
Phillip
Senior Leader
Testimonials
What Clients Say
Working with this team provided our leaders with clarity at a critical time. The assessment-led approach helped us understand where pressure and burnout risk were emerging, and the training created space for honest, practical conversations about how we lead under pressure.
The program was well-designed, and highly relevant to our environment. It has supported a more proactive approach to balancing wellbeing with performance across the team.
"One of the best leadership development trainings I've attended. The practical tools, and the honest reflection helped me have a different approach to resilience for me and my team. I’m walking away with real steps I can apply at work and at home."
Phillip
Senior Leader
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Who We Serve
Trusted By Leaders Across Sectors
We partner with organisations across sectors including financial services, energy, transport, and the public sector. Our work supports leaders navigating pressure, complexity, and change in environments, often delivered quietly and in partnership with internal teams. Where permission allows, we’ve shared a small selection of organisations below.
We support organisations to build leadership resilience through assessment-led training, grounded in data, experience, and organisational context. Our work helps leaders navigate pressure, complexity, and change while protecting people and performance over time.
