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Mental Fitness & Leadership Coaching

Build Mental Fitness for Resilience & Leadership

Train your brain to work for you, not against you.
Mental fitness coaching helps you handle life’s challenges with greater clarity, resilience, and focus, strengthening performance, relationships, and wellbeing.

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That inner critic. The mental noise. The second-guessing.

When your mind works against you, even simple things can feel harder.
Decisions take longer. Conversations feel heavier. Confidence wavers, despite your experience and capability.

Mental fitness coaching helps you recognise these patterns and build the skills to respond with clarity and intention.

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Change starts with your mindset. Not more effort.

You already have the capability.
What often gets in the way are untrained mental habits that quietly shape how you think, decide, and lead.

Mental fitness gives you practical tools to notice these habits, interrupt what’s unhelpful, and strengthen the inner skills that support clear thinking, effective communication, and sustainable leadership.

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What Is Mental Fitness?

It is the ability to manage your inner world. Your thoughts, emotions, and reactions, so they support how you live and lead.

Like physical fitness, mental fitness is trainable. With the right tools and practice, you can strengthen focus, emotional regulation, and resilience, especially in moments that matter.

What Makes This Different

An Evidence-Based Approach to Mental Fitness

This work is grounded in neuroscience, behavioural psychology, and evidence-based coaching methodologies, including the Positive Intelligence® framework.

Instead of relying on motivation or willpower, it builds practical skills you can apply in daily, at work, in leadership, and in everyday life.

What Becomes Possible With Stronger Mental Fitness

When your mental fitness imporves, everything else becomes easier to manage.

Clearer decisions

Greater focus, perspective, and confidence

Stronger relationships

Improved communication and emotional awareness

Improved wellbeing

Reduced mental load,   improved resilience & balance

Sustainable performance

Consistent energy without burnout

From Reactive to Responsive

Reactive Patterns

  • Driven by self-criticism or overthinking
  • Emotionally charged responses
  • Reduced clarity and effectiveness

Responsive Leadership

  • Grounded, intentional decision-making
  • Calm, clear communication
  • Stronger leadership presence

Mental fitness strengthens your ability to choose how you respond, rather than reacting automatically.

How Mental Fitness Coaching Works

It follows a clear, structured process designed to help you strengthen clarity, resilience, and confidence in everyday situations.

Rather than relying on motivation or willpower, this approach builds practical mental skills you can apply daily in real time — supporting how you respond under pressure, communicate with others, and lead with greater intention.

Build Awareness

Recognise the mental habits shaping your reactions, decisions, and leadership style.
You learn to notice patterns such as overthinking, self-doubt, or reactivity, without judgement, creating space for choice rather than automatic response.

Strengthen New Responses

Develop mental muscles that support clarity, resilience, and focus.
Through simple, evidence-informed practices, you build the capacity to respond with calm, perspective, and confidence, even in challenging situations.

Embed Into Daily Life

Apply tools directly to leadership, relationships, and performance.
Mental fitness becomes part of how you work and lead, supporting sustainable wellbeing, stronger communication, and consistent performance over time.

Mental Fitness Group Coaching Pathways

Choose the level of support that fits where you are right now. All pathways are practical, evidence-based, and designed to support sustainable change.

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Mental Fitness Foundations

8-week group program

Start here to reset your mindset, reduce stress, and build core mental strength.

An 8-week starting point to build core mental fitness, quiet mental noise, and strengthen self-leadership. 

Ideal if you’re feeling stretched, reactive, or ready to reset from the inside out.

Best suited if you’re new to mental fitness or ready to create a stronger foundation.

  • Greater self-awareness and emotional regulation

  • Tools to manage stress and reactivity

  • Improved clarity, focus, and confidence

  • Stronger self-leadership habits

  • Practical skills to support wellbeing and performance

  • 8 weekly group coaching sessions

  • Guided mental fitness practice via app access

  • Saboteur assessment and debrief

  • Peer support pod for accountability

  • Reflection tools and practical exercises

  • Optional 1:1 coaching upgrade

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Mental Fitness Performance

6-month leadership Program

Embed mental fitness into leadership habits, decision-making, and day-to-day performance.

A 6-month pathway to support you leadership, strengthen resilience, clarity, and performance. 

Designed for leaders ready to embed resilience, clarity, and sustainable performance.

Best suited to professionals leading complexity who want meaningful impact without burnout.

  • Respond to challenges with clarity instead of reactivity

  • Strengthen leadership presence and emotional intelligence

  • Reduce burnout patterns and mental overload

  • Align leadership decisions with values and priorities

  • Build sustainable rhythms for performance and wellbeing

  • Mental Fitness Foundations program (group coaching + practice)

  • Follow-on group coaching to embed habits and apply tools

  • Extended app access to support ongoing practice

  • Two private 1:1 coaching sessions

  • Leadership tools and reflection resources

  • Peer accountability and support

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Mental Fitness Collective

Ongoing monthly support

Sustain momentum through ongoing support, integration, and accountability.

A monthly coaching space to sustain mental fitness, leadership growth, and accountability over time. 

Designed for you to stay connected to your practice as life & leadership continue to evolve.

Best suited for those continuing beyond Foundations or Performance.

  • Monthly live group coaching session (60 minutes)

  • Guided themes focused on mental fitness integration

  • Reflection prompts and practical tools

  • Private community for connection and peer accountability

  • Everything included in group coaching

  • One private 1:1 coaching session per month

  • Tailored guidance for leadership and wellbeing goals

  • Ongoing accountability and personalised support

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Real Leaders. Real Stories. Real Impact.

Honest experiences of what becomes possible with our coaching and workplace wellbeing programs

Before working with Michelle, I was ready to leave my 35-year nursing career, feeling anxious and uncertain about my role. Her coaching helped me regain confidence, redirect my career into clinical leadership, and prioritise self-care. I now sleep better, feel healthier, and have a renewed passion for my work. This program is life-changing—I highly recommend it to any nurse struggling with compassion fatigue.
Janine DuthieNursing Director | SA Health
Janine Duthie
Before working with Michelle, I struggled with self-confidence and found it hard to connect with colleagues. It held me back professionally and created stress that impacted my mental and physical health — even my family life. Michelle’s coaching has been transformative. She helped me approach challenges at work with calm and confidence, and the changes have flowed into every part of my life. I’m now showing up as a better husband, a more present dad, and a more positive influence. Michelle creates a space of trust, mindfulness, and accountability. She doesn’t just listen — she challenges me to think deeper, follow through, and grow. The trajectory I’m on now is something I’ll carry for the rest of my life. I’d recommend Michelle to anyone ready to make meaningful, lasting change.
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Mental Fitness at the Heart of Our Work

Mental fitness isn’t a standalone tool. It’s woven into how we support sustainable leadership, wellbeing, and performance.

Aligned with our Signature Model, this approach strengthens how you lead yourself and others, design healthy systems, and sustain long-term impact. The result is change that’s practical, meaningful, and built to last.

Self

Inner clarity and resilience
Build inner resilience and leadership clarity

Structure

Habits & systems that support wellbeing
Embed small habits into systems, routines, and team culture

Sustainability

Long-term performance without burnout
Create lasting growth through daily mental fitness practice

When mental fitness is your foundation, everything shifts.
You make decisions with clarity. You respond to pressure with calm confidence. You lead with purpose.

By strengthening inner capacity, you build the conditions for meaningful impact, innovation, and authentic leadership. Across your life, your team, and your organisation.

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Is this approach right for you?

What could change if you felt clearer, calmer, and more in control of how you respond?

This program is for you if you’re:

  • A professional caught in cycles of overthinking, self-doubt, or burnout
  • A leader wanting to strengthen clarity, emotional regulation, and impact
  • A team builder focused on resilience, trust, and healthier ways of working
  • Ready to reduce self-sabotage and lead from calm, confidence, and intention

If you’re navigating midlife leadership, change, or competing demands, this article explores how mental fitness supports clarity, confidence, and sustainable wellbeing: → Unlock Your Full Potential: Wellbeing and Mental Fitness for Midlife Professionals

Ready to Strengthen Your Mental Fitness?

The next step is a simple conversation.
Let’s explore the right pathway to support your wellbeing, leadership, and performance.
Take the free Saboteur Assessment and book a Discovery Call to find the best program for you or your team.

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Still Have Questions? 

We’re Here to Help

If you’re curious about how our Mental Fitness and Group Programs works or whether it’s the right fit for you or your team, you’re not alone. This section covers the most common questions, so you can feel confident as you take the next step in your resilience and leadership journey.

Positive Intelligence (PQ) is a science-based approach to mental fitness that helps you build resilience, improve performance, and enhance well-being by strengthening your “Sage” mindset and intercepting self-sabotaging thoughts, known as “Saboteurs.” ​

  • The core PQ Program spans 7-8 weeks and includes:
  • Weekly video sessions led by Shirzad Chamine
  • Daily app-guided exercises (PQ Daily Focus and Reps)
  • Saboteur and PQ assessments
  • Access to a supportive communit
 

Optional group and 1-1 coaching sessions with Michelle Hasani from Wellbeing by Design a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach.

This structure is designed to build the three core mental muscles: Saboteur Interceptor, Sage, and Self-Command

The Foundations Program is designed with some flexibility to allow participants to get the most out of their own journey. 

Foundations Program:

  • 1-hour long Weekly Module (weekly)
    • The Weekly Modules are always available for re-watching and you are also able to modify the playback speed on each video to move at a pace that is ideal for you.
    • You can do this by clicking on the three dots at the bottom right of the video screen and choosing “playback speed”.
  • 15-minute, app-guided mental exercises (daily)
  • 30-60 minute check-in meetings with your accountability pod group (weekly) – if you are doing the program with a pod
 

The Foundations Program is designed to help you reach your true potential. We believe that Mental Fitness is a lifelong journey (of daily practice), not a sprint. 

PQ Reps are short, focused exercises (about 10 seconds each) that help you build your Self-Command muscle by bringing attention to your senses. They are foundational practices for enhancing mental fitness. 

Yes. After completing the foundational program, you can subscribe to the Applications Program, which offers advanced modules on topics like stress management, conflict resolution, and leadership

Absolutely. The program can be tailored for teams and organisations, focusing on collective mental fitness, improved collaboration, and a positive work culture.

Program participants have access to:

  • A dedicated app with daily exercises
  • Community forums for peer support
  • Group coaching sessions weekly
  • Optional 1-1 coaching with CPQC Michelle Hasani
  • Resources like the Positive Intelligence book and digital tools