Robust research shows people leaders play a vital role in wellbeing and performance. Yet, our research shows that only 27% believe frontline leaders are adequately equipped to lead for wellbeing.
Build your people leaders’ competence and confidence to lead and navigate.
Build sustainable leadership through constant change
– without burnout
ROW’s workshops are designed for busy leaders and teams navigating pressure, change and competing demands. Each session offers clear, practical insights and tools to help people think more clearly, manage cognitive load, and work in ways that are sustainable over time.
The approach is human-centred and evidence-led, shaped by professional expertise and lived experience. Sessions are tailored for your people leaders and the realities of your organisation – grounded, relevant, and designed to support real-world wellbeing and performance.
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Sustainable performance looks different in every organisation. The sessions below outline the core focus areas, and we tailor each workshop to reflect your current demands, risks and priorities.
Executive Leadership Under Sustained Pressure – Workshop![]()
Designed for executive and senior leadership teams with system-level influence.
If your organisation is navigating significant change or operating under sustained pressure, this workshop is designed for your senior team.
Periods of sustained or layered pressure across teams can substantially increase delivery risk – particularly in environments where high demand is already the norm and capacity is tight.
When it comes to change programs, the focus is typically on outcomes. The harder question is how to deliver them without adding further strain, compromising performance, or increasing burnout risk across the organisation.
Strategy, pace, prioritisation, safety climate, and implicit expectations can all shape how load is distributed across teams – and whether recovery is enabled or constrained. Recovery is a fundamental part of how human systems regulate and remain effective over time.
What happens at the senior level matters. Decisions at the board table can directly influence how resilient the system actually is.
Grounded in ROW’s Human Cadence Model™, this session examines sustainable performance through an organisational design and risk lens. It highlights the dynamic relationship between load, recovery and performance over time – and how leadership signals cascade through teams.
The focus is not on individual resilience. It is on healthy work design and the role senior leaders play in shaping the conditions for sustained performance at scale.
Leaders leave with a clearer understanding of the conditions required for sustainable performance, where pressure is accumulating across the system, and where hidden risk may sit. They identify strategic adjustments that can reduce risk and strengthen performance over time, along with practical next steps and tools to support that work
Sustaining Leadership Under Pressure – Workshop![]()
For many leaders, pressure comes from all directions. Expectations from above. Responsibility for people below. Add ongoing change, competing priorities, constant business-as-usual demands, and limited recovery, and leadership can start to feel like constant triage.
It shifts the focus from individual coping to how leadership behaviour shapes team experience — how priorities are clarified, how expectations are set, and how workload is carried across the team.
We examine the level of load the team is currently operating under, the risks that may be emerging, and the role recovery plays in enabling the team to meet its objectives over time.
Leaders often carry more influence than they realise. Small signals around availability, urgency and standards can either increase strain or create space for sustainable performance.
This session supports leaders to examine those signals and make practical adjustments. It recognises that some pressures are structural and require a different approach. It’s about what leaders can influence, and how organisations can better support sustainable performance.
Leaders will leave the session with practical tools and tips, and opportunities to track change over time.
Managing the Cognitive Load at Work – Workshop
For many people, the cognitive load is incredibly high right now. Between work demands, organisational change, home life, and the need to be available and always ‘on’ – the pressure is very real. Add global uncertainty, social media and the general state of things, and it’s no wonder people feel exhausted.
For some, this shows up as the mental load often discussed in relation to invisible labour at home. More broadly, it reflects the cumulative cognitive and emotional effort of constantly anticipating, organising, deciding and monitoring responsibilities across both work and life.
Research shows that when those demands consistently outweigh opportunities for recovery, a person’s capacity reduces over time. It becomes harder to focus and manage well, and this can have a ‘contagion’ effect on the individual, their team and their family.
None of this is a weakness or about blame – it is how human systems respond to sustained demand.
Grounded in ROW’s Human Cadence Model™, this session explores how load and recovery interact over time – and how to navigate these pressures.
It is designed to be realistic, recognising that some structural pressures are beyond any one person to fix. The focus is on what individuals can influence. Participants gain a clearer understanding of their capacity and leave with practical tools and strategies that can be applied in the real world.
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Workshops can be an hour to multi-day, depending on your needs.
Online, in-person or hybrid. We can guide you on what works for engagement.
Be it 8 or 800 people – we can design a session that works for your audience size.
Workshops are bespoke, evidence-led sessions and typically start from $4,200 + GST
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I did want to drop a line through to say a huge thank you for your time and the session with us, after you left we ended up discussing the topic until well after 6pm and it was just awesome. The whole team took so much from it and really valued your time – thank you so, so much. Worth absolutely every cent.
That was the best professional development opportunity I have attended since starting here at UC. The quality of the content and the delivery was exceptional. A significant reflection moment for me about many concepts covered, it really was amazing – having openly experienced a ‘spectacular burn out’ myself last year I just milked that whole presentation yesterday for the golden messages kind of moment it was…self care practices not being luxuries, the shadow of a leader, healthy caring…I could go on and on!
Well you did an absolutely brilliant job. We were delighted with how it went and feedback so far has been very, very positive. Thank you for truly listening and considering our requirements and getting it right for our audience. We loved working with you.
I wanted to thank you all for making last week’s webinar such a success. I have had feedback from numerous people, both in the EMA and outside (including my partner who is a mental health professional). This unprompted feedback has all been positive, so all very welcome! The different perspectives and examples you brought resonated and different people picked out different comments or suggestions from the webinar. For me the webinar it had the great vibe of a group of friends having a good quality conversation, with professional expertise, practical examples and humour. Which is a great way into getting business owners and managers to think about how they can help address these important issues, as well as helping us all individually. Thanks again. It is the EMA’s most viewed webinar by some way for last year.
Your presentation was perfect for what I was hoping to achieve, and the team and I appreciated and learnt from your storytelling and vulnerability – thank you.