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Master Resilience Under Pressure

Sarah Furness

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Boost leadership & resilience with Sarah Furness: RAF combat pilot, bestselling author, and mindfulness coach.

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5 out of 5 stars

I’ve heard many brilliant speakers in my time. Very few have been able to transfer their lessons so articulately into the workplace.

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Why you should book Sarah Furness for your next event

  • Unlock transformative leadership skills with Sarah Furness. Learn battlefield-tested strategies to enhance resilience, performance, and leadership under pressure. Equip your team with tools proven to thrive in high-stress environments.
  • Equip your team with resilience and stress management techniques from a proven RAF combat pilot. Sarah’s methods are designed to help employees handle pressure, reduce burnout, and maintain peak performance in demanding situations.
  • Benefit from the expertise of Sarah Furness, the first female RAF combat helicopter pilot to lead UK Special Forces missions. Her leadership and resilience techniques are proven in high-stakes environments, offering unmatched value.
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Unlock elite leadership and resilience with Sarah Furness, RAF combat pilot and bestselling author. Transform your team’s performance with proven, battlefield-tested techniques that excel under pressure. Book now for transformative results and immediate workplace application.

Why you should book Sarah Furness for your next event

  • Unlock transformative leadership skills with Sarah Furness. Learn battlefield-tested strategies to enhance resilience, performance, and leadership under pressure. Equip your team with tools proven to thrive in high-stress environments.
  • Equip your team with resilience and stress management techniques from a proven RAF combat pilot. Sarah’s methods are designed to help employees handle pressure, reduce burnout, and maintain peak performance in demanding situations.
  • Benefit from the expertise of Sarah Furness, the first female RAF combat helicopter pilot to lead UK Special Forces missions. Her leadership and resilience techniques are proven in high-stakes environments, offering unmatched value.

Keynote Speaker Sarah Furness is renowned for her unparalleled expertise in leadership, resilience, and performance under pressure. As a former RAF combat helicopter pilot, Sarah Furness brings real-world experience and profound insights into her motivational speaking. Her unique perspective is drawn from leading high-stakes missions, including being the first female pilot to lead UK Special Forces operations in Iraq.

Sarah Furness’s keynote speeches are designed to empower organizations by teaching transformative leadership and stress management techniques. Her approach combines cognitive therapy, mindfulness, and military precision to offer actionable strategies that drive peak performance and resilience. By integrating these elements, Sarah Furness provides your team with the tools needed to excel under pressure and navigate today’s complex business landscape.

As a bestselling author and experienced executive coach, Sarah Furness delivers engaging and impactful presentations that resonate deeply with audiences. Her motivational speaking not only inspires but also equips attendees with practical skills for immediate application.

Book Sarah Furness for your event and witness a dynamic keynote that leverages her extraordinary achievements to foster leadership excellence and organizational growth. Sarah Furness’s booking ensures a transformative experience that translates combat-tested techniques into actionable strategies for business success.

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Train Hard, Fight Easy

How to perform like a ninja under pressure.

War veterans are NOT naturally cool under fire. People are NOT born with 007-esque levels of stoicism. Not even Sean Connery (God rest his mighty soul.)

Discover the unique HABITS formula that Sarah has developed;  proven methods used by combat pilots which have been refined through her exploration of the human mind. You will learn practical tools for greater focus and productivity, reduced errors and reduced stress.

Learn also how to delegate without abdicating so you can multiply output, create space for strategic thinking and increase team engagement.

These techniques may have been learned on the battlefield, but they are absolutely transferable to your workplace…. and they WORK.

Outcomes:

  • Greater productivity,
  • Improved decision making,
  • Increased resilience under stress,
  • Reduced burnout.
Keynote by speaker Sarah Furness

How to Outgrow the Competitiion

Why we need to change our mindset around mistakes. 

Mistakes are ok… so long as we learn from them, right?

But what if our traditional mindset around mistakes is precisely the reason we don’t learn from them?

And consider this, if an organisation fires someone when they make an honest mistake they’ve just fired the person who has the most information about what went wrong, and is most motivated to put it right.

Being ruled by a fear of failure won’t pay off in the end… but the truth is, no matter how irrefutable the logic is, IT’S HARD TALKING ABOUT MISTAKES

Sarah will share how to change our mindset so that we learn from our setbacks AND we take early corrective action to avoid setbacks in the first place.

And it doesn’t happened by being running away from failure – it happens when we LEAN IN.

Outcomes:

  • Accelerated learning ,
  • Create Growth mindset culture,
  • Increased staff engagement and retention.
Keynote by speaker Sarah Furness

How to Lead into the Future

Leverage fear to cultivate emotional intelligence. 

The number one thing that holds humans back?

It’s FEAR.

It can manifest in different ways; fear of rejection, fear of failure. Let’s be clear – this is what it means to be human. It’s not going anywhere. But it can really interfere with our decision making as a leader. In a team it can lead to group think, censorship and risk aversion.

In fact it’s a real buzz kill.

Whether you are looking for greater inclusivity, better teamwork, or more confident leadership, it’s the same starting point.  It’ starts with understanding your fear to understand others, then leveraging it to lead intuitively.

Sarah will deliver outcomes for greater probability of success, collaboration and a culture where people can thrive.

Outcomes:

  • Greater probability of success,
  • Team cohesion,
  • Overcome imposter syndrome,
  • Improved inclusivity and cognitive diversity.
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What are we really afraid of?

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Book this for the ultimate sales kick off kick off…..

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Why being challenged is not a failure in leadership

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References

I’ve heard many brilliant speakers in my time. Very few have been able to transfer their lessons so articulately into the workplace.

Senior Director, IRESS

It was a pleasure to hear you speak earlier, and sparked a number of nerves on my part!! If I had known it was going to be that good, I would have closed the office and told the team to hear you speak.

Anonymous, Ex-Special Forces

I heard great things so I booked Sarah for my top client. She has uncanny ability to not only motivate and inspire, but make her topic relatable to everyone. She was bang on time and bang on point.

Quirk Solutions

Widely acknowledged by everyone as a highly credible leader able to make your experience totally relevant to leadership challenges in the corporate world. Our CEO said you were f….. brilliant.

CPO, AEGON
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5 out of 5 stars

I’ve heard many brilliant speakers in my time. Very few have been able to transfer their lessons so articulately into the workplace.

Senior Director, IRESS See all references

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