Welcome to Survive and Thrive, the Fearless Facilitator Method ®

Where courage meets culture. I help leaders prevent harm & build trust that fuels people, purpose & performance

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.

Rachel Cashman, Founder
If you’re navigating any of these problems, you’re in the right place:

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:

Leaders especially CEOs and Board members can experience profound isolation, burnout, anxiety, shame, and a loss of purpose. I offer personalised support, grounded in integrity, authenticity, and deep understanding of leadership vulnerability, to help you regain equilibrium, resilience, and clarity.

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

Your involvement has allowed our staff to better understand the importance of their role in creating a psychologically safe environment, the enabler to deliver high performance and innovation
Stephen Wilcock

Director Engineering and Safety, MOD

My experience includes but is not limited to: