Raise resilience, improve your life and workplaces, and achieve effective outcomes to complex challenges in a fast changing world without stress and conflict. Harness the power of Inner Sustainability, Systems Awareness and Adaptable Leadership for high performance with high wellbeing and happiness.

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Resilience, Inner Sustainability and Adaptable Leadership.

Sue works with you to master resilience, adaptability and leading yourself and others through times of change, uncertainty and other complex challenges. She helps you achieve desired outcomes with less stress and conflicts, and higher engagement, wellbeing and performance.

Expertise in mindset, resilience, confidence, emotional intelligence, positive intelligence, systems awareness and leadership, delivered in formats tailored to your requirements and situation.

For You For your Team and People For Event Organisers

Sue delivering a Keynote speech on Adaptable Leadership: Navigating Change and Uncertainty

For You For your Team and People For Event Organisers

What are you looking for support with?

Stop stress & burnout. Achieve balance and effective outcomes.

Resilience, Mental Strength & Wellbeing

Thrive through change, uncertainty, restructure and growth.

Navigate Complex Challenges

Stop silos, miscommunication & misunderstandings. Raise performance.

Improve Collaboration

Stop conflicts. Improve inclusivity. Nurture Trust & Strong Relationships.

Raise Engagement

Create a space with high engagement & performance. Retain & attract your best people.

Positive Culture and Mindset

Align with your purpose & values. Gain clarity, fulfilment, balance & success on your terms.

Career Development

Leadership Development Team Development

The ultimate purpose for all of our work is to raise wellbeing, engagement and high performance, for individuals, teams and organisations. We help you address some of the challenges that get in the way of achieving that, offering unique insights from Sue's background in evolutionary ecology (bringing insights around complex, dynamic interacting systems in addition to her training with Peter Senge in Compassionate Systems Leadership), her experience leading expeditions to remote locations, her experience as an executive coach and her experience working with energy in equine shiatsu.

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Delivery options

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121 Executive Coaching

Masterclasses
In Person & Live Online

Walking Wellbeing and Dynamic Dialogue

Team Development

Keynote Talk

Leadership Development

Expertise in resilience, confidence, inner sustainability, systems awareness and adaptable leadership delivered in formats tailored to your requirements and situation. Together, we choose the relevant content, focus and format, or combination of formats, to deliver tangible benefit and value. The key is our focus on supporting you to address your pressing challenges, clarify desired outcomes for the event or program, and to identify the underlying challenges, problems and other causes of the symptoms that you, your team or your organisation are experiencing.

Individuals – 121 coaching in person ('walk and talk' option possible) or remote via Zoom or Teams, assessments, IDG Edinburgh Resilience Hub

Organisations – 121 and team coaching, assessments, team development, leadership development programs, all staff development, masterclasses, deep-dive workshops, facilitation, and 'walk and talk' facilitated events. (Walking events are usually booked under wellbeing, mental health or personal development offerings by L&D or OD departments).

Event organisers – keynote talks, interactive conference seminars and masterclasses, CPD events, deep-dive workshops: facilitated discussion/brainstorming/collaborative problem-solving sessions.

In person delivery – in your own venue or an off-site location.

Remote / online delivery – we can use your own hosting platform or I can host the event for you on Zoom.

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Get a flavour of how Sue can deliver events whether on a large stage or in a more intimate masterclass.
All events are interactive, including questions, discussion in pairs or groups and voting / comments with Mentimeter amongst other options depending on the format.

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Co-create tailored, relevant events and 121 coaching options

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Customer Reviews

Testimonials

See what some of Sue’s clients are saying about working with her for 121 Executive Coaching and for masterclasses and keynotes in conferences, staff development and leadership programmes. Online and In the Room. See more recommendations on Sue's LinkedIn page. You can click and hold on the testimonial to stop it moving.

I strongly recommend Dr. Sue Mitchell’s talk “Leading through times of uncertainty and change” – the sailing analogy resonated extremely well with the audience of our regional leadership team and the authentic, practical and engaging leadership guidance stuck with them. More than 8 months later, the topic is more relevant than ever. Hearing our leaders recalling the concepts and messages when faced with current changes and uncertainty is the best evidence that Sue’s inspirational talk had impact and left our leaders with content and experience we can lean on.

Dagmar Smith Executive Director Human Resources, Gilead Sciences

Sue’s been working with me to deliver a variety of people-development projects and programmes since around 2010. Sue has consistently delivered and always in a highly positive and personable way. I trust Sue to do a great job of whatever she is working on. Her dedication and enthusiasm shines – and this brings her knowledge to life! If you are looking to develop your employees, I strongly recommend a conversation with Sue.

Lorna Prince Organisation Development Partner, Stirling University - Now Heriot Watt Univeristy 2023

I have the pleasure of knowing Dr Sue Mitchell over a period of years now. Building Resilience and mental toughness was a topic very well received at one of our WiBF events and Sue had some 20 business women up on their feet in no time, interacting and enjoying every moment. Her 4Cs on the High Seas still resonates with me and keeps me sane when change and uncertainty threatens to overwhelm.
Working one to one with Sue, I found her style professional, her suggestions substantiated and she challenged my limiting beliefs, helping me to think in different ways.
As part of one of our leadership programmes at work, we offered our senior managers her book The Authority Guide to Engaging Your People, a concise little book that contains so much good information and addresses the right issues for any leader.
What can I say - Sue has impressed me at all levels, as an author, a facilitator, an executive coach. I would recommend having a conversation with Sue to anyone interested in mental toughness, concerned about raising performance and wellbeing of their staff or wanting to know more about how to lead through change and uncertainty. A class act!

Athena McEwan BNP Paribas

I have been fortunate enough to attend Sue's workshops numerous time now and I always find her mix of theory and personal application to be completely relatable and relevant to the challenges I face. Her inclusive approach makes sessions very interactive and easy to consider key points in light of your own individual circumstances.
I was struggling to formulate my 12 month career plan without getting a knot of fear in my stomach but after just one session with Sue I was able to change my perception and I now have a very solid plan. I thoroughly recommend connecting with Sue for help with any mindset, personal or career barriers, the results you get are great.

Vicky Zuiderent Director and Co-Founder at Vilo Sky

“Where to start – first thing, see new title below!! I have been promoted and given a pay rise which was entirely down to you giving me the confidence and the tools to raise the issue. You also helped me recognise where boundaries were being crossed and not respected and to stand up for what is important to me. You were very impressive and I always came away feeling motivated – you were very natural to talk to and it really boosted my confidence and morale.”

FW - 121 Executive Coaching Client Glasgow. Manager, Construction.

Meet our Clients

A few of our amazing Clients

We're proud to work with and support a range of clients, from individuals to organisations ranging from micro-businesses, SMEs, public sector, and multi-national corporations.