6
weeks
12
women maximum
2
private 1:1s with Nicola
12
audio drops
WA
WhatsApp support
£997
founding member rate
Sound familiar
You replayed that conversation three times on the drive home and you still don't know if you got it right.
You sat down for the first time all day and your brain immediately started running through tomorrow.
You're wide awake at 3am with nothing specific wrong and everything quietly running through your mind.
You were short with someone you love and you know exactly why but you don't have any energy left to fix it tonight.
You sat in the car before you went inside because you needed sixty seconds where nobody needed anything from you.
This is what burnout looks like when you're still performing and you've been carrying it alone for too long.
You're capable. That's part of the problem.
You're the person people rely on.
The one who stays calm when everyone else is overwhelmed.
The one who figures things out.
The one who carries more than her share because, frankly, you usually can.
So when something starts to feel off, your instinct isn't to ask for help.
It's to work harder. Get more organised. Push through.
The problem is that your life still works and from the outside, everything looks exactly as it should.
You're succeeding.
You're delivering.
You're keeping all the plates spinning but something about it no longer feels manageable.
Nobody is pulling you aside to ask if you're okay and most people probably assume you're thriving.
The hardest part isn't that you're struggling.
It's that nobody would believe you were.
Coping isn't the same thing as living and there comes a point where carrying everything stops feeling like strength and starts feeling like survival.
The women who join the Executive Reset aren't struggling because they aren't capable.
They're struggling because capability has carried them further than it should have had to.
"I had high-functioning anxiety for years. Only excellence felt good enough, so I couldn't delegate, I avoided conflict, and at home I couldn't make decisions. Working with Nicola on where that came from changed everything. The shift in my own thinking changed how my whole team operates. We've gone on to close deals I wouldn't have thought possible, but more than that, I actually enjoy the role now."
Hi, I'm Nicola.
NCPS Registered Psychotherapist · EMCC Accredited Executive Coach
I spent fifteen years in education, teaching the students nobody else could reach, rising to assistant head, managing teams of 200, before going deeper into the psychology of why high performers struggle.
I know what it looks like when someone has it together professionally while something else is quietly unravelling.
I've sat with enough women in leadership to know that the hardest part isn't the job.
It's carrying the job and everything else simultaneously with nowhere to put any of it down.
I built the Executive Reset because that woman deserves more than coping strategies.
She deserves somewhere to stop performing and tell the truth about how much she's carrying.
Trusted by senior leaders across NHS, Metropolitan Police, Deloitte, KPMG, Arup, Bauer Media, the BBC and many SMEs across the UK, USA, Europe and the Middle East.
"I went through a period of burnout and honestly went back to work too quickly. I felt like I needed to prove myself, so I pushed through. By the time I started working with Nicola, the exhaustion had really crept in. Within weeks I'd restructured how I worked and got my time back. I realised I could actually be present, at work and at home. Everything changed."
On the group format
Most women who join have exactly the same hesitation.
A group feels exposed.
You're used to being the person with the answers.
The one holding things together.
The idea of sitting with other women in similar positions and talking honestly about what's going on can feel uncomfortable.
What they discover is something very different.
For the first time in a long time, they're in a room where nobody needs an explanation.
Nobody is impressed by your title.
Nobody needs you to hold everything together.
You stop editing yourself and that's where the real shift happens.
By the end of six weeks
Your boss sends a message at 7pm on a Friday. You read it. You put your phone face down. You finish dinner.
That's not because you've learned to set boundaries.
It's because something underneath has actually shifted.
Here's what that looks like in practice.
- You stop replaying. The conversation you'd normally pick apart on the drive home, in the shower, at 3am. You have it, it ends, and it stays ended. Because you're no longer looking for the thing you missed.
- You make the call. The decision you've been circling for three weeks. You make it on a Tuesday afternoon without needing to run it past three people first.
- You go home and you're actually there. You walk through the door and you're not still at work in your head. Your kids say something and you hear it. You sit down for dinner and your shoulders drop. You didn't have to remind yourself to be present. You just were.
- You say no and nothing falls apart. A straightforward one. And then you go back to what you were doing.
- Your team notices something. You're making decisions faster. You're not over-explaining. You're not absorbing their anxiety the way you used to. Someone says you seem different. You say you feel it.
- The Sunday dread is quieter. You're not writing Monday's to-do list in your head at 9pm on Sunday night. You close the weekend. You open the week when it arrives.
This is not about having less on your plate.
The plate doesn't change.
What changes is how much of yourself it costs you to carry it.
What the six weeks look like
For six weeks, you don't have to be the strong one.
Each week opens with an audio drop on Monday to introduce the theme.
Wednesday is the live session: twenty minutes of teaching and a short activation, then hot seat coaching on what's actually coming up for you.
A second audio on Friday closes the week.
You bring what's happening. Nicola brings the understanding of why.
For the first time, someone explains what's been going on in a way that makes sense of it. Most women leave this session feeling lighter just from understanding.
Most women arrive here thinking this is about workload. It isn't.
This week you find the root, the specific belief or pattern that's been running underneath everything. This is usually when things start to move.
You can't think your way out of this. If you could, you'd have done it by now.
This week is about what's happening physically when you're exhausted but wired, calm on the outside but humming underneath and what actually helps.
Most senior leaders reach a point where they can't quite remember who they were before the role took over.
It happens slowly. This week is about who you are outside the title, outside the pressure, outside the performance and how to find your way back to her.
You already know you should say no more. That's not the problem. The problem is understanding why you don't, even when you want to.
This week you find that out and when you do, the boundaries stop feeling like something you have to force and start feeling like something that makes sense.
This week is about integration.
You leave with a clear picture of where you are now, what's changed, and what you're doing next.
The Cost of Doing Nothing
The alternative is another six months of managing it.
Another project that was supposed to be the last hard one.
Another holiday that helped for four days.
Another Sunday night writing Monday's to-do list in your head while you're supposed to be present with your family.
You already know things don't calm down. You've been waiting for calm for long enough to know it isn't coming.
The women who do nothing with this feeling don't burn out dramatically. They just get quieter. Smaller. They stop putting their hand up for things. They stop having opinions in rooms where they used to lead. They get very good at looking fine.
Their careers continue.
Their lives continue.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That's what makes it so easy to ignore.
Until one day they realise they've spent years surviving a life that looked successful from the outside.
That's one version of what comes next. The other one starts in September.
If you've made it this far, you probably don't need convincing that something needs to change.
The question is whether you're ready to stop waiting for things to calm down first.
Because they won't.
The women who get the most from this programme aren't the ones with the most time.
They're the ones who finally decide they matter as much as everyone they're carrying.
Six weeks. Small group. Clinically informed.
The Executive Reset
6-Week Group Experience For Female Leaders
£1,297
2 private 30-minute 1:1s with Nicola
6 weekly group calls
12 audio drops
Community
12 women maximum
Founding member rate closes 1st August. Cohort capped at 12.
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Nicola reviews every application personally and responds within 48 hours. Founding member rate £997. Cohort capped at 12.
Frequently Asked Questions
You don't need another holiday that helps for four days.
You don't need another productivity system.
You don't need to become a different person.
You need somewhere to stop carrying all of this on your own.
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Founding cohort capped at 12. Founding member rate closes 1st August.
