James McIntyre-Ure

Seeing resilience as the ability to never give up can often lead to burnout. Learn a revised definition of resilience and practical strategies to maintain resilience capital to ensure employees can navigate uncertainty, handle challenges and maintain productivity. This session will provide participants with an ABC model for dealing with stressful situations. They will have a chance to increase awareness of their own stressors and reframe them in a more useful way.

Whichever profession we have decided to follow, difficult conversations with friends, family or colleagues are inevitable. Equip your employees with essential skills to handle tough conversations effectively. Learn practical techniques to foster understanding, resolve conflicts, and improve communication. Empower your team to address difficult topics with confidence, fostering stronger relationships and creating a more harmonious work environment.

Often people assume procrastination is just being lazy, but this is far from the truth and indicative of various underlying issues. Help your employees understand their procrastination and boost productivity. Learn practical techniques to manage time effectively, set priorities, foster motivation, and stay focused on tasks. Empower your team to overcome procrastination and achieve their goals, fostering a more efficient and results-driven work culture.

Enhance teamwork and collaboration by fostering a deeper understanding of your colleagues. Gain insights into different personality types and communication styles to improve workplace dynamics. This session will highlight the benefit of Thomas Erikson’s four key behaviour types that define how we perceive and interact with people. It will help develop stronger relationships, increase empathy, and create a harmonious work environment where everyone feels valued and understood.

Jobs provide many people with a sense of purpose and achievement. With AI automation rapidly changing the job market, generation Z is already questioning their sense of meaning and purpose. This session will explore how you can start preparing for an uncertain future job market and how you can discover your own meaning and purpose in the process. Effective networking, using  the ikigai framework and designing a vision board are a key part of the process.

Are you navigating a career change and feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck? This session explores tools for choosing a meaningful career, making an impactful skills based CV and how to deal with fear and a lack of confidence in the process. Whether you're switching industries, returning to work, or facing redundancy, this session offers compassionate, realistic guidance to help you stay grounded and confident.

Mental health is often the missing link in career advice, so this session brings it to the forefront. In this session I share practical strategies for managing your mental health during a career transition. You’ll learn how to manage uncertainty without losing momentum, how to create a transition team to support your emotional and professional growth, the role of fear and self-doubt and tools to regulate stress and maintain clarity during change.

Young people are growing up in a world of constant digital connection, changing social norms, and increasing emotional pressure. Many of the challenges they face today such as anxiety, digital overload, and confusion around identity and relationships require updated tools and thoughtful approaches from the professionals who support them.

This session provides practical, creative, and evidence informed strategies for working with adolescents. You will learn how to respond to emotional distress, promote self awareness, support identity development, and address common risk behaviours while building trust, engagement, and emotional safety.

The inner critic is learned early in life, deeply ingrained in our beliefs about ourselves, and is often born out of a need to protect ourselves from hurt or disappointment. However, the inner critic can become harmful, leading to self-destructive or sabotaging behaviours. This session will help you identify belief systems at play and how to effectively reprogram them so we can regain control over what drives our behaviour.

The way we respond to fleeting emotions is often reactive and counterproductive. Learn to recognize and regulate different emotions, so you can avoid falling into bad coping habits and effectively empathise with others. This session will enhance your team's emotional intelligence, empathy and compassion to improve your workplace relationships and communication.