Emotional Wellbeing & Resilience
For Female Leaders and Organisations
As seen in
Isabelle Griffith is an Emotional Resilience & Wellbeing and Embodied Leadership Coach, Trainer and Speaker, dedicated to supporting leaders in overcoming stress and burnout, and in leading with impact in a fast-paced, ‘always-on’ and volatile world. She is the founder of The School Of Somatic Leadership For Women ™, and the creator of The Pause Approach ® and Soma Leadership ®.
Isabelle supports female leaders to stress less, live more and lead well; and organisations to embed emotional resilience at all levels to drive impactful and sustainable results.
McKinsey’s Women In The Workplace 2021 report highlights that:
1 in 3 women are contemplating downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce, compared to 1 in 4 in 2020.
42% of women are often or almost always burnt out (rising to over 50% for women managing others).
Companies risk losing women in leadership - and future women leaders - and unwinding years of progress toward gender diversity.
It also reveals that “Women are setting new standards for leadership”.
Women leaders are more likely to promote employee wellbeing and spend substantial time on DEI work that falls outside of their formal responsibilities. But it comes at a huge cost, and “the state of women hangs in the balance”.
This crisis represents an opportunity for companies to invest in wellbeing initiatives focused on retaining women leaders.
Our Services. Are you …
A Female Leader
Caught up in the race of life. Endlessly striving to do more and be more in the hope that it will lead you to feeling whole, fulfilled and happy.
Years of being fuelled by an under-current of stress and anxiety have left you feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.
You realise that the path you have been on is no longer sustainable.
An Organisation
Wanting to proactively address the effect of stress and anxiety on your female leaders and employees’ retention and performance, as well as the secondary impact it is having on your diversity and company culture.
You are a forward thinking organisation, which recognises the importance of embedding wellbeing at all levels.
You want to create a culture where diversity and psychological safety prevail.
About Isabelle
Isabelle partners with organisations to prevent stress, burnout, and high-functioning anxiety in their female leaders, and to foster emotional resilience at individual and team level.
Through her evidence-based programmes, she empowers female leaders to create sustainable impact with resilience and confidence and without compromising their wellbeing.
Isabelle founded her coaching practice in 2017, after spending over two decades in the corporate world, where she held a variety of roles at AT&T, PwC, United Technologies Corporation, Amazon, Yahoo!, and JustGiving. Her background in leading diverse, geographically spread teams equips her with first-hand experience of the pressures of leading in a fast-paced, volatile and uncertain world.
Since founding her practice, Isabelle has supported both organisations and private clients through her unique methodologies. These are grounded in her years of corporate leadership, her personal journey of burnout, and her extensive training across multiple disciplines.
“Working with Isabelle has been life changing, and something I will never forget.”
— Former client, personal resilience coaching
What people are saying.
“Working with Isabelle has been absolutely life changing. I have come to really appreciate how our minds work in terms of dealing with issues and how this can affect behaviour. I have been able to process negative emotions that I had been carrying around for years. This has been an absolute revelation.”
“I had been to various types of coaches, but Isabelle knows how to draw out the best of you, and show it to you in a light that you’ve never seen before. Our work has given me tools, direction and focus, and has helped me to feel calmer and more positive. I know that I will have ups and downs but I believe I have the resilience to cope."
“Isabelle has helped me to get to a point where I am able to bring my whole self to any given situation, without the negative emotions getting in the way, clouding my judgement and dictating my behaviour. It's been incredibly rewarding and being free from those negative feelings has allowed me to feel truly happy for the first time in many years.”
What makes Isabelle’s approach unique. It is…
Credible
Embodied
It draws heavily on neuroscience, and uniquely brings together a range of modalities including Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Embodiment, NLP and Transactional Analysis.
It is not confined to working with the mind alone - embodiment is woven throughout for longer lasting change. Stress is a physiological reaction: it happens within the body. Therefore, processing stress requires working with and through the body.
Trauma-informed
It is attentive to her client’s personal history, and offers a safe and compassionate space to express and explore emotional and mental challenges that they are often unable to share in any other context.
‘Lived in’
Having spent 20 years in the corporate world, Isabelle understands first-hand the challenges that your female leaders and employees are facing. She has lived through them personally. This allows her to bring a unique ‘lived-in’ sensitivity, compassion and practical insight to her work.