Traditional Leadership Programs Are Failing

The Leadership Gap
Manager engagement is bottoming out and dropped from an already low 30% to 27% in just one year. The cost? $438 billion in lost productivity globally.
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Organisations know this - leader and manager development has been their #1 priority for three consecutive years. They're investing more. But 75% report their programs aren't delivering results.
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Why? Traditional approaches - seminars, lectures, workshops - have a negative effect on development.
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​What works is experiential learning through controlled pressure & repeated practice. Building capability that transfers to real operational environments.
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That's exactly what we do.

​​With 20 years in high-pressure leadership - from Counter-Terrorism Tactical Operations, to $96M FMCG operations, to an Alpine Resort with 1M+ annual visitors - Brendan May has spent a decade adapting stress inoculation methodology for business.
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Not war stories. Not battlefield analogies.
Practical development through progressive pressure exposure.
The same methodology that builds performance in elite teams, adapted for the operational complexity your leaders & teams face daily.
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Traditional programs deliver inspiration that fades.
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Resilient Operations builds enduring capability.
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Sources: Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2025, Gartner HR Leaders Survey 2025, Harvard Business Review 2025
Proven Methodology, Real Results
"Brendan is an inspiring leader and great mentor.
Brendan created and delivered the leadership development program to all managers and supervisors across Thredbo.
This achieved a massive increase in employee reporting up 420%. A 20% drop in the rate of workers’ comp claims year 1 and a further 25% drop year 2.
Thanks for everything you do Brendan!"
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-Stuart Diver, General Manager Thredbo
ROI Not Inspiration
Built on neuroscience, organisational psychology principles, and human factors integration. Not intuition - rigorous evidence-based methodology refined through academic study and operational application.
The research is clear:
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Managers trained in coaching see 20-28% performance improvements (Gallup, 2025)
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74% of managers aren't equipped to lead change (Gartner, 2024)
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Manager wellbeing jumps from 28% to 50% with proper training (Gallup, 2025)
Our programs deliver.

Our Results

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