Executive coaching to help you rebuild resilience and return to work with practical strategies that support burnout recovery and prevent relapse.
You have been exhausted, running on empty for a long time, pushing yourself beyond your limits and you’re now at breaking point. You secretly wonder how long you can keep going.
When you look back, you recognise the stress, overwhelm and sense of dread were impacting your performance and your high standards were slipping.
You were once a high-performer but now you don’t understand why the job feels impossible. A quiet voice whispers that you’re weak, a failure and not good enough.
Perhaps you’ve had a moment of collapse forcing you to take medical leave. You just need space to breathe and ‘sort yourself out’ but you don’t know where to start.
Or maybe you’ve been on medical leave for a while: you thought time out of the workplace would help but nothing has changed and you’re scared you’ll never return to the career you worked so hard to build.
You want to recover your energy, rebuild your resilience and feel well again.
You want to understand how you got here, how to recover and how to regain
control over your future.
You want to return to work and perform at your best, but not at any cost. You want
robust strategies to balance your wellbeing with the needs of the business.
You want to quiet the critical inner voice that fills you with shame and fear. You recognise it’s holding you back and becoming a barrier to your return to work.
You want to salvage your career, make a difference and experience professional success. You want to grow into the leader you know you are capable of being.
Resilient Returners follow these six principles
In my work with senior leaders and executives, I have discovered there are six key principles that combine to replenish energy, re-build resilience and return to work with a comprehensive toolbox of practical strategies that support burnout recovery and prevent relapse:
The Resilient Returner coaching programme
Replenish – Replenish your energy reserves and rebuild resilience
Reset – Understand the stress response and reset the nervous system
Restore – Restore mental and emotional wellbeing
Realign – Re-discover your purpose and values for deeper meaning and fulfilment
Recover – Recover from burnout and develop robust strategies to prevent relapse
Return – Return to work with confidence.
“I came to Emma at a low point in both my personal and professional life. Emma was brilliant – her coaching was so kind and insightful and I felt she really got to know me during our time working together. Her input has made an enormous difference to my life – both in and outside of work. I feel very fortunate that I have had this time with her.”
Dr Natasha Garrett, GP Partner at The Verwood Surgery
What you will gain
An understanding that you are not weak, a failure or ‘losing it’… and you do not need to resign. Burnout is a protection mechanism and a wake-up call. What you will learn during coaching has the power to shape your life and career for the better.
Your health and happiness will improve as you learn how to reduce stress, improve energy, rebuild resilience and recover from burnout. Where you are right now is not a place you will revisit again.
You’ll know exactly what you need to fully resource yourself and return to work with confidence, able to prioritise your wellbeing and balance the needs of the business.
You’ll learn the neuroscience of how the brain and body are hard-wired to function. This deeper understanding of yourself uncovers the root cause of burnout and improves your self-awareness and confidence.
With a strong connection to your purpose and values, you’ll discover greater meaning and fulfilment in your life and work.
You’ll develop a more positive outlook and improve communication skills which, combined with a strong sense of agency, empower you to live and lead with clarity, bravery and optimism for the future.
Introducing the Resilient Returner coaching programme
My bespoke executive coaching programme combines applied neuroscience, positive psychology, mindfulness-based stress reduction, emotional intelligence plus burnout recovery to help you rebuild resilience and return to work with practical strategies that support burnout recovery and prevent relapse.
Replenish your energy and rebuild resilience
- We focus on this topic first to allow the brain and body to recover and start you on the road to burnout recovery.
- You’ll learn the foundations of physical energy – good quality sleep, healthy eating, the importance of rest and joyful movement.
- You’ll learn how to manage your ‘energy drains’ and what you need to be fully energised in your life and work.
Reset the stress response and nervous system
- You’ll understand the human stress response and how it affects your brain and body.
- You’ll learn a variety of evidence-based tools to calm the stress response and reset the nervous system.
- You’ll have a clear understanding of your external and internal sources of stress, your unique ‘stress signature’, recognise unhelpful coping mechanisms and replace them with helpful alternatives.
- You will learn evidence-based tools for managing stress in the moment and over time.
Restore mental and emotional wellbeing
- You’ll uncover the limiting beliefs that create internal stress and likely contributed to burnout.
- You’ll get to know your Imposter Syndrome (the inner voice that says you’re not good enough at your job) and learn how to quiet it.
- You’ll learn how to develop a positive, growth mindset with proven Positive Psychology practices.
- You’ll improve your emotional intelligence, learning skills to understand your emotions and gather the wisdom they come with.
Realign with your purpose and values
- You will discover your values and how to live in alignment will them.
- You will identify your purpose to create a deeper sense of meaning and fulfilment in your life and work.
- We’ll explore personal integrity and how to set boundaries that are essential to prevent relapse.
- This work informs the next chapter of your life and career after our coaching relationship comes to a close.
Recover from burnout and prevent relapse
- We’ll create your unique wellbeing plan designed to reduce stress, replenish energy and rebuild resilience.
- To ensure behavioural changes are sustainable, we’ll explore the typical barriers to self-care and how you will overcome them.
- You’ll have access to a comprehensive toolbox of personalised, practical strategies to support your recovery from burnout and prevent it from happening again.
Return to work with confidence
- We’ll create a plan for your return to work including preparing for important conversations and planning your phased return.
- You’ll develop key emotional intelligence skills, including listening, empathy and social awareness to re-establish relationships with colleagues.
- You’ll learn a game-changing model to ask for what you need, communicate with compassion, give feedback and nurture positive partnerships.
- Ideally the coaching relationship continues for a few months after you have returned to work so we can overcome the ‘interference’ that gets in the way of you performing at your best and elevate your performance over time.
“Like many GPs I was going through a difficult time at work and struggling with burnout. Emma’s skill, professionalism and expert guidance took me through important reflections which helped me to re-discover my vocation to medicine, the beauty and importance of our daily work. Working with Emma definitely changed me into a happier GP and person!”
Dr Fran Grana, GP Partner at Orchid House Surgery
Elements of the Resilient Returner coaching programme
The Resilient Returner coaching programme includes a combination of elements tailored to your specific needs:
Resilience and Wellbeing Assessment – Complete a detailed assessment of your stress levels, physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual energies and what drains you, plus a burnout inventory. We’ll highlight the areas of focus and establish the foundation of your coaching programme.
Coaching objectives and goal setting – Together, we’ll define your coaching objectives and set goals for your coaching programme ensuring we focus on the key areas to rebuild your resilience and elevate your professional performance.
Resilient Returner Coaching – Regular one-to-one coaching sessions tailored to your objectives, helping you to reduce stress, rebuild resilience, recover from burnout and re-discover sustainable performance.
Pocket Coaching (optional) – On-the-go support via WhatsApp for quick advice and guidance between sessions, ensuring you stay on track with your progress.
Laser Coaching – Quick, focused sessions to tackle challenges as they arise, giving you real-time solutions to maintain momentum.
Resilience Toolkit – A peronalised toolkit of strategies to reduce stress and rebuild resilience, including breathing exercises, physical exercises, mindfulness meditations and deep rest meditations.
Wellbeing Workbook – A comprehensive wellbeing workbook to capture your reflections, learning and actions. Serves as a resource you can return to over time.
Evaluation and Integration – When your coaching programme comes to a close, we revisit the Resilience and Wellbeing Assessment to review your progress and celebrate all you have achieved. You will receive a personalised Wellbeing Plan and we will explore areas of focus for the future ensuring you continue to stay on track.
Accountability call – A follow-up accountability call after the completion of your coaching programme to check in, acknowledge progress and establish the learnings.
Is the Resilient Returner coaching programme a good fit for you?
We begin with a free, no obligation clarity call to get to know each other, explore the challenges you’re facing and the results you want to create. I will explain the Resilient Returner coaching programme, what you can expect and answer any questions you may have. If we work well together, we’ll decide on the programme option that is right for you.
“I absolutely loved working with Emma. She is incredibly knowledgeable and explains everything in such a calm, clear and grounded way. Her understanding of burnout — the emotions, the exhaustion, and the path back to clarity — helped me more than she realises. She created a safe, encouraging space where I felt heard, supported, and able to rebuild confidence in myself and my career direction.”
Berna Rickson – Group Brand Manager, Animalcare Group
Why work with me?
I’m Emma Hackett, an ICF Professional Certified Coach who has worked with senior leaders, C-suite executives, established founders and business partners like you for over eight years. I specialise in supporting stressed, exhausted and overwhelmed leaders to elevate their professional performance, without compromising wellbeing, for greater impact and business success.
I have experienced my own burnout and am acutely aware of the impact and where it can lead if it’s not addressed, Whether chronic stress is taking its toll, or you’re already on the road to burnout, please know this is reversible. Wherever you are now, it’s not the final destination. With my experience, coaching support and accountability, we will explore possibilities, find new ways of thinking, and take small achievable actions that lead to sustainable change. Change that restores calm, clarity, energy and resilience that lays the foundation for sustainable professional performance.
My coaching approach is grounded in humanity: it is a real privilege to connect with the magnificent human being beneath my clients’ roles and responsibilities and inspire them to overcome their challenges and reach their goals with my support every step of the way.
I hope we have the opportunity to work together. Please book your clarity call and find out more about the Resilient Returner coaching programme. I look forward to speaking with you.
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“I worked with Emma when I was overwhelmed, exhausted and close to burnout after a perfect storm of personal and workplace challenges. At the start of coaching I was not sure I could go on, but the fact that I am still at work and looking positively to the future is a result of Emma’s coaching. With Emma’s help, I have more energy, I am much happier and have grown in confidence as a leader.”
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