Helping technically brilliant, quietly depleted leaders get off the "coping" treadmill and back into a version of leadership that's actually sustainable.  So you can hold the risk, hold the room, and still have something left at the end of the day for yourself and your family.

Dr. Michelle Cushion has spent over two decades in engineering and defence.  A Chartered Fellow Engineer, a PhD, and, more recently working as a Global Head of HSEQ and Security responsible for the safety of other people's work, all whilst juggling a young family.

When you've spent your career in high-consequence, safety-critical environments, you learn to hold your nerve and power through. What nobody teaches you is how to hold and replenish yourself, how to keep leading with strength and confidence once the adrenaline of "getting it right" has quietly turned into the exhaustion and overwhelm of "not getting it wrong." Michelle spent years running at that pace before she started asking a different question: "what would it look like to lead this well and sustain the person doing it?"

Have you stopped noticing how tired you actually are? Is there a little voice making you doubt your decisions or ability? Do you know your job entirely but feel your confidence hasn't quite caught up with your competence? What would it feel like to walk into the room with the quiet, grounded gravitas you know you're capable of without it costing you your evenings, your health, or your sense of self?

Michelle's clients are engineers, leaders, and senior technical professionals in engineering and defence who are excellent at their jobs, prioritising everyone else but running on empty themselves. She works with them to protect what's sustaining them, understand their needs, rebuild what's been worn down, and step forward with the confidence and presence their experience has already earned.

If that sounds like where you are, get in touch.