The Working With Resilience Consortium
Working With Resilience is an international consortium of practitioners and academics combining their skills to advance the understanding of what resilience actually means in relation to our working lives.
We are interested in what work resilience is, how you measure it and what you can do to create it.
Our passion is in:
- Understanding what creates sustainable work practices and resilience in challenging work environments and occupations
- Developing validated tools that measure resilience within the employment context
- Providing strategies to build the resilience of employees, teams and leaders in a way that creates both optimal performance and personal wellbeing.
Managing Director, Kathryn McEwen, is an Australian-based organisational psychologist, who has substantial experience in coaching and working with leaders, individuals and teams operating in demanding environments.
Kathryn has partnered with like-minded experienced practitioners and credentialed researchers in the area of workplace wellbeing and performance.
Our aim is to develop practical evidence-based tools that can assist organisations develop and embed sustainable work practices that build resilience.
Our Team
Kathryn McEwen is an organisational psychologist and coach with more than 30 years consulting experience across all industry sectors. Her contribution to her profession has been recognised through the award of ‘Fellow’ by the Australian Psychological Society. She has a special interest in workplace resilience and is author of three books on resilience at work as well as co-developer of the R@W Toolkit. Her areas of expertise include leader and team development, coaching and addressing team dysfunction. Kathryn has a strong evidence-base to her work as she collaborates with the University of South Australia through lecturing, student placements, applied research and membership of advisory committees. She is sought after as a speaker and is a member of the College of Organisational Psychologists having served in numerous executive positions including SA Chair.
Website – www.kathrynmcewen.com
Website – www.kathrynmcewen.com
Paul Chudleigh is the UK Lead of Working With Resilience. He is a highly credentialed business psychologist and coach with experience in director-level, managerial and practitioner positions. He understands both the ‘business’ and ‘psychology’ elements of the profession and produces very clear linkages between ‘soft’ factors such as culture and achieving tangible business outcomes. He has worked extensively with Chief Executives, Directors, Senior Managers and Middle Managers across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Paul specialises in the assessment and development fields and has a real passion for delivering OD work in the way it should be – with care, a genuine focus on clients’ goals and a preparedness to ‘go the extra mile’ to secure results.
Website – www.workingwithresilience.co.uk
Website – www.workingwithresilience.co.uk
Pierre is the European distributor for Working With Resilience products. He works at senior management levels, contributing to the development of business strategy and performance. He has specialised in executive assessment and coaching for leadership performance. Pierre works with executives and their teams on the challenges of power, influence, paradox, ambiguity and motivation in complex matrix organisations and on the management of emotional derailers and cross cultural effectiveness. He is also expert in Conflict Intelligence and Resolution. Since September 2011 Pierre has served as an advisory board member with the Center for Conflict Dynamics in St Petersburg (Florida). He is the Co- Founder of and Managing partner at the Institute for Conflict Dynamics Europe in Berlin (Germany)). He is the Founder of the European Institute for Workplace Dynamics in Paris (France). Pierre graduated from Paris-Nanterre University with a D.E.S. degree in Economic Science and Finance. He earned the title of Psychologist after completing a D.E.A. in cognitive psychology at Paris-Nanterre University. He is a member of the French Psychological Society and a Faculty member with Mercer in their Leadership Development practice.
Website – www.iwd-europe.com
Website – www.iwd-europe.com
Antionette is an ANU graduate in Australian Archaeology and Anthropology but with an equal yet passionate interest in all types of business and creative writing communications. Based in Canada, Antoinette is now a communications expert with over 30 years experience. She has a wide range of experience in technical, business and marketing writing. Her experience also includes end-user documentation development, software training and course development as well as eLearning development across different types of industries but always within the IT sector for both private and government-based organizations. Recently, Antoinette has specialized in web-based communications projects providing content authoring for private industry initiatives. Her role with Resilience is doing website support which includes writing, editing and coordinating a range of communications projects including blogs, guides, ebooks and other documentation.
Rochelle is a psychologist. As part of her Master of Psychology (Organisational and Human Factors) degree she investigated the interplay between individual occupational resilience, job characteristics (demands and resources), and team performance. Rochelle is fascinated by the diversity and complexity existing within workplaces and amongst organisations, and she believes strongly that resilience is a key element in employee and organisational well-being. Her role within Working with Resilience is to provide auxiliary and research-based support.
Heather is an experienced organisational psychologist and registered nurse. She holds a PhD in Psychology and is both a member of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists and a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing.
She works with teams, leaders and executives in acute health and aged care organisations, to realize their performance potential through resilience training, in order to deliver outstanding health care. She is particularly interested in working with teams and leaders working in crisis and transition situations.
In addition to working with organisations, Heather has a professional interest in coaching adults of all ages dealing with transition in their own lives. Her work with clients combines Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, to extend psychological flexibility and thrive in challenging times.
She works with teams, leaders and executives in acute health and aged care organisations, to realize their performance potential through resilience training, in order to deliver outstanding health care. She is particularly interested in working with teams and leaders working in crisis and transition situations.
In addition to working with organisations, Heather has a professional interest in coaching adults of all ages dealing with transition in their own lives. Her work with clients combines Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, to extend psychological flexibility and thrive in challenging times.
Emily Lawrie is a Graduate of the Masters in Organisational Psychology and Human Factors at Adelaide University. For her honours thesis, she examined how mindfulness can be fostered in the workplace – considering both working conditions and organisational climate. Emily is passionate about continuing workplace research in the field of positive psychology. Her masters thesis explored application of the Resilience at Work (R@W) Toolkit in not-for-profit organisations. Emily’s role within Working with Resilience is as a Research Associate.
Dr Carolyn Boyd was previously a research associate at the Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety at the University of South Australia. Her research interests include the antecedents of stress and wellbeing at work, age differences in attitudes to work, and emotion regulation at work. Within the team she provides expertise in research methodology and statistical analysis and is co-developer of the Resilience at Work Team Scale.