Welcome to Survive and Thrive, the Fearless Facilitator Method ®
Organisations thrive or falter based on the quality of their conversations, relationships, and capacity to confront the uncomfortable truth.
As a fearless facilitator, I support CEOs, Leaders, HR Partners, Coaches, and Managers who face critical challenges that affect people, productivity, culture, and trust.
Complexity and Dysfunction
Organisations often become stuck unable to pinpoint exactly why relationships break down, everyone becomes too nice or overly polite, cosiness creeps in, silences become dangerous, or accountability evaporates. Whether you’re facing mergers, new leadership transitions, complex product launches, or organisational crisis, I help you courageously navigate ambiguity to restore clarity and alignment.
Psychological Safety & Relational Risks:
Without safety, there can be no authenticity, innovation, or true performance. Whether individual or team based, psychological safety underpins every courageous conversation. I foster safe spaces that disrupt groupthink, counteract cognitive bias, and bring dangerous silences into transformative dialogue.
Breakdowns in Relationships and Communication:
Misalignment, tribal warfare in boards or teams, disengagement, bullying masquerading as banter, and cultural disconnects these are often symptoms of lost or broken human connections. I step into these challenging spaces, fearlessly and compassionately, to rebuild trust, enhance empathy, and reignite healthy team dynamics.
Leadership Vulnerability and Isolation:
Ethical Dilemmas and Strategic Tensions:
Navigating the tension between commercial demands, ethical responsibilities, and strategic goals can feel overwhelming. We explore these dilemmas openly, challenging unhelpful dynamics and aligning teams toward clear, courageous, and ethical decision making.
Proven Impact & Lasting Results
Clients who work with me achieve career defining, organisationally transformative outcomes.
Here’s just a snapshot of the real world impact delivered by Survive and Thrive, The Fearless Facilitator Method®:
Financial & Operational Excellence
- Delivered £1.5 million annual efficiency savings for a frontline healthcare organisation, liberating resources to enhance patient care.
- Accelerated innovation timelines in a global life sciences company, cutting the cycle from idea to implementation from 18 months down to just 6 months.
Culture & Engagement
- Significantly improved staff engagement scores during periods of uncertainty, restructuring, or intense organisational change restoring morale, purpose, and trust.
- Enhanced equality, diversity, and inclusion metrics, creating workplaces defined by justice, respect, and community.
- Cultivated cultures characterised by curiosity, openness, and healthy disagreement, breaking harmful silences and enabling authentic collaboration, sustainability of success, and preparedness for disruption.
High Performance & Conflict Resolution
- Successfully reduced team conflicts, resolving toxic dynamics, and enabled teams to reach critical performance milestones faster and to sustain those improvements long-term.
- Supported public sector organisations in achieving and maintaining regulatory recognition of “Outstanding” status through cultural and behavioural transformation.
Strategic Clarity & Decisive Leadership
- Enabled leadership teams to effectively prioritise and pivot equipping them with the courage and confidence to say “no,” and maintain laser like focus on what truly matters and achieve their key performance metrics.
- Liberated leaders from entrenched bureaucratic processes, increasing agility, reducing stress, and refocusing energies on productive outcomes.
Pioneering Psychological Safety
- Collaborated closely with Professor Amy C. Edmondson and NHS England and NHS Horizons to co-design and deliver A Practical Guide to the Art of Psychological Safety in the Real World of Health and Care
- This groundbreaking initiative directly engaged over 80 senior leaders from health, care, and local government, equipping them with the skills to embed psychological safety, enhance organisational capability, and build capacity at scale during the Covid19 pandemic.
- In healthcare and beyond, work specifically on creating the conditions for psychological safety at work, directly impacts growth, innovation, and risk tolerance.
Fearless Diversity
Leaders are faced with dilemmas every day that flow from human interactions at work. And they are so often disruptive, time-consuming, potentially create division among your staff and test you as a leader. You need time to reflect…..you need space in the morning to listen to Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe eating these problems for breakfast. Fearless Diversity is the candid podcast that tackles the real dilemmas bosses, managers, and leaders face every day – around accountability, decision-making, workplace dynamics, conflict, and organisational culture and their people. Join Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe — two of the foremost thought leaders in workplace diversity, leadership, and inclusion — as they dive into honest conversations that get to the heart of it. We have the conversations you want to have.
Rachel brings real-world, high-level implementation experience – expertise that CEOs and managers can trust, learn from, and enlist when they need results and to ensure their teams perform at their best. Simon adds his clout as a highly respected broadcaster, author, and inclusion specialist. They don’t always agree — and that’s the point. Rachel and Simon argue, disagree, and explore different perspectives, and always with resolution and insight – modelling the difficult conversations leaders need to have. It’s a podcast for thoughtful leaders who want to reflect, rather than shout or be shouted at. Fearless Diversity is the place to think differently about today’s trickiest human issues at work.
