Insights on Sustainable Performance
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Practical thinking on energy, focus and leadership under pressure — drawn from recovery science, real coaching conversations, and Kate’s own experience as a Paralympian and organisational psychologist.
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The Highest Performers I’ve Worked With Don’t Work the Longest Hours
When you picture a high performer, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s someone who’s constantly moving: answering emails late at night, taking calls during family time, announcing proudly that they’re running on four hours of sleep. The executive whose calendar has no gaps, whose phone is always in hand, who is visibly, demonstrably,…
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What One CEO Learned After Years of Running on Empty
Success has a particular way of hiding problems. The company is growing. Revenue is up. The team is performing. The CEO is on stage at industry events, picking up awards, getting tagged in congratulatory LinkedIn posts. From every external angle, things are going well. Behind that, in the actual working day, something different is happening.…
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I Thought Rest Was a Luxury Until I Learned What It Does to the Brain
Somewhere in leadership culture, busyness became a proxy for performance. Leaders started describing their schedules the way other people describe medals. “I haven’t stopped all week.” “Things are completely mad right now.” “I’ve barely had time to think.” Said with a particular combination of exhaustion and quiet pride, as though the relentlessness is both the…
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7 Habits of Leaders Who Perform Hard and Sleep Well at Night
Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get nearly enough airtime in leadership conversations: recovery. Not the concept of it — most leaders will nod along to the idea that recovery matters. The practice of it. The actual, deliberate, non-negotiable building of recovery into a working week, rather than hoping it turns up somewhere in the…
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What Executives Can Learn From How Athletes Recover
When people picture elite athletes, they think about the training — the early mornings, the discipline, the physical output. What rarely gets mentioned is that the world’s best performers spend just as much time and intention on recovery as they do on the work itself. That’s not accidental. Recovery is the whole point of the…
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From Elite Sport to Executives: The Same Game, Different Field
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you take someone out of elite sport and drop them into the world of executives, the short answer is: nothing really changes. The longer answer is what this post is about. I spent over 20 years in high performance environments — a blend of time as an elite…