The Resilience Institute

Resilience training and research

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The Resilience Institute was founded in New Zealand in 2002 by Dr Sven Hansen. Our mission is to deliver high impact, practical, evidence-based and integrated Resilience training by bringing together modern preventative medicine, positive psychology, emotional intelligence, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and neuroscience.

To date, hundreds of thousands of executives and professionals have participated in our programme. They have built stronger bodies, achieved greater levels of emotional intelligence, and have developed stronger minds.

Our programme is designed to build competencies across mental health, stress management, wellbeing, emotion, positivity, focus and flow. We support organisations with training and toolkits that result, on average, in a 38% growth in resilience.

Resilience is the learned ability to bounce, grow, connect and flow.

Dr Sven Hansen, Founder, the Resilience Institute

We work with many of New Zealand’s leading companies, government departments and educational institutions. Our approach is practical, integral and evidence-based. We provide high-impact face-to-face training as well as blended and online learning experiences. The Resilience Diagnostic assessment enables measurement of organisational resilience while providing team members with personalised resilience action plans.

Based out of Auckland and Tauranga, our team of facilitators deliver workshops and keynote presentations countrywide. Find out about how resilience enables strategic agility in our latest research report.

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Brad Hook
Call: 021 367 654
[email protected]

Resilience Training Programme

Our programme leads participants on a learning journey designed to engage, inform and build confidence in the key skills that underpin personal resilience. The method involves assessing individual resilience, acquiring practical skills and behaviours, followed by ongoing focus themes and habit tracking to drive behavioural change. Discover more about our approach.

Key Outcomes of the Programme

  • Participants gain a clear understanding of resilience
  • Understand how to read and act on your Resilience Diagnostic report
  • Know how resilience fails and how to detect it early
  • Learn real-time skills in bounce back and recovery
  • Build breathing for sleep, focus and relaxation
  • Finding the sustainable performance state
  • Manage the drivers of prevention and wellbeing
  • Fitness–flexibility, strength, aerobic, HIT & posture
  • Securing sleep, dealing with fatigue and travel
  • Simple, evidence-based meal planning
  • Knowing how to fit your self-care into your day
  • Reduce impulsivity; effective under pressure
  • Understand basics of emotional intelligence
  • Counter negative and build constructive emotions
  • Recognizing how to focus and rejuvenate the mind
  • Learn how to reframe body, heart and mind
  • Increasing Flow for productive and creative work
  • Developing and sharing a personal plan

Meet the Resilience Institute NZ team

  • Dr Sven Hansen
    Dr Sven Hansen
    Founder
  • Bradley Hook
    Bradley Hook
    Partner
  • Declan Scott
    Declan Scott
    Senior Consultant, New Zealand
  • Sandy Hall
    Sandy Hall
    Consultant, New Zealand
Dr Sven Hansen
Founder

Dr Sven Hansen is the founder of The Resilience Institute. From a medical family, Sven joined Pathfinders, a special forces team in South Africa, before completing medicine.  His passion for sport and flow took him into sports medicine and a personal practice in resilience.

Asking if organisations might be interested in applying sports science to good business and leadership, Sven began a corporate health business in 1988. He completed his MBA in 1993 and set about building an evidence-based, integral and practical solution to sustainable performance in life, sport and business.

Over 20 years Sven has worked extensively with High Performance Sport, professional firms, banks, corporates, government, entrepreneurship, universities, and schools.  He leads the development of The Resilience Institute’s methodology and is an experienced executive coach, keynote speaker and leadership trainer.

He has a specific interest in developing leadership teams and the application of biological principles to leadership, strategy and resilience in the community. Sven lives in Auckland with Susan and their two children. He is a keen surfer, paddler and kitesurfer.

See Sven in action delivering a keynote presentation.

Sven’s latest articles, videos and book reviews.

[email protected]
Phone: +64 21 730 995
Postal Address:
PO Box 28-123, Remuera
Auckland, New Zealand

Bradley Hook
Partner

Brad is a technologist, author and resilience facilitator who has presented keynotes and workshops around the world.

He is dedicated to supporting individuals and groups with the Resilience App – a practical, evidence-based toolkit that builds resilience skills and proves the impact. His latest book Resilience Mastery explores the 11 critical skills that drive high performance.

Brad is a dedicated resilience practitioner who enjoys surfing, trail running and videography.

[email protected]
Phone: (+64) 021 367 654
Bradley Hook bio | LinkedIn

Declan Scott
Senior Consultant, New Zealand

Declan joined the Resilience team in 2015 and brings practical experience from both the professional practice field across a number of countries to hands on business knowledge in owning and growing a business from Startup stage. He is dedicated to helping change the culture of business by inspiring a renewed sense of purpose and creativity in the workplace.

Declan is a former Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland and has worked internationally as a corporate tax advisor prior to moving to New Zealand in 2005. He is one of the original founders of SHE Universe group in Christchurch. Declan has held various lecturing positions at a number of universities in Australia and New Zealand and is also a recognised keynote speaker and workshop facilitator.

[email protected]
Phone: +64 27 695 8922

Sandy Hall
Consultant, New Zealand

Sandy has an extensive background in HR Leadership and Leadership Development across commercial business in Australasia. With firsthand experience of the need for resilience at an executive and governance level she brings her Leadership Development acumen and experience to the table when assisting teams to build resilience into their daily practice.

Sandy has a real passion for Employee Engagement and Experience, seeing them as being intimately connected and critical to the wellbeing of employees and a key driver of the commercial success of all organisations.

[email protected]

Phone: (+64) 27 217 3225