Transforming resilience culture so people and organisations can thrive in safety-critical, high-performance industries.

Create collective prosperity by enhancing the wellbeing and performance of team members while improving the business outcomes and bottom line for your organisation and stakeholders.

THRIVE gives organisations in safety-critical and high-performance industries the confidence that their people and systems remain resilient in the face of adversity and in times of awe.

Working in high-risk, high-impact, and safety-critical industries brings inherent challenges, and very often is the the catalyst for living a rich, meaningful and purposeful life. Having the systems and training in place to remain resilient in the face of adversity allows teams in high-impact careers to develop longevity and maximise prosperity while avoiding burnout.

Created by experts who use psychological sciences to build resilience culture, THRIVE provides a range of systems and programs that transform safety culture by delivering a strategic mix of resilience training, 24-hour response to high impact events, peer support systems, coaching, and counselling.

These systems work together to build resilience and enhance performance. A THRIVE Tribe doesn't only recover well a THRIVE Tribe is empowered to value their high-impact experiences and moments of awe.


If you’re looking to create collective prosperity by enhancing the wellbeing and performance of your team members, you would be making a decision to improve business outcomes and make a positive impact on the bottom line. Reach out to the team at THRIVE to learn more about how to optimise your human capitol. We work with clients nationally across Australia and New Zealand.


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Culture and strategy

An effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organisations in the same industry. In safety-critical and high-performance industries, transforming resilience culture multiplies this effect and works to align wellbeing and performance to the strategic commercial objectives of the organisation.

Performance and productivity

Enhancing the wellbeing and performance of team members improves business outcomes and the bottom line for your organisation and your stakeholders. When employees are thriving, their productivity and quality of work consistently improves, while absenteeism and staff turnover are contained to manageable levels.

Efficiency and structure

Designed specifically for safety-critical and high-performance industries, the systems and programs integrate into existing organisational structures to maximise efficiency and effectiveness. The highly structured safety management and operations integration includes measurement strategy and data collection, plus tracking of wellbeing and performance measures.

Return on investment

All systems and programs are measurable. This allows them to be directly linked to improvements in organisational performance, turnover and ultimately profit margins for the organisation. With the science to support an ROI of $3 to $5, THRIVE’s systems work to reduce unnecessary costs such as replacing key team members, and they work to improve team efficiency, creating a resilience culture where long-term cashflow and profitability is predictable and repeatable.

Compliance and safety

THRIVE’s strategies and systems have been developed through decades of industry experience, evidence-informed insights, and psychological science. Compliance and safety is assured with comprehensive governance documentation for safety management systems, and a proven industry-leading staff usage rate.

Create collective prosperity by enhancing the wellbeing and performance of team members while improving business outcomes and the bottom line for your organisation and stakeholders.

THRIVE transforms resilience culture by designing, delivering, managing and reviewing:

  • Psychological response capability
  • High impact event response
  • Team preparedness and resilience workshops
  • Peer support systems
  • Wellbeing leadership training and mentoring
  • Governance documentation for safety management systems

The THRIVE Institute works with a diverse range of organisations in safety-critical and high-performance industries including:

  • Aeromedical
  • Aviation (from high-risk helicopter rescues to long haul flights)
  • Emergency services including police, fire, ambulance, and SES
  • Australian Defence Force
  • Aerospace and addiction medicine
  • Check and training performance
  • Maritime
  • Transport
  • Mining
  • Construction
  • Medicine
  • High-performance individuals including athletes, pilots, and doctors
  • Performing arts
  • News and media

If you’re looking to create collective prosperity by enhancing the wellbeing and performance of your team members, you would be making a decision to improve business outcomes and make a positive impact on the bottom line. Reach out to the team at THRIVE to learn more about how to optimise your human capitol. We work with clients nationally across Australia and New Zealand.


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James Douglas

With 20 years of experience in a variety of organisational and counselling psychology roles James has a wealth of knowledge and practical experience. In the last 15 years, James has been specifically working with police and emergency service workers and caring for individuals and groups with complex trauma histories, as well as grief and loss. Of course, trauma and stress has the potential to impact significantly on relationships both at home and in the work environment, and for this reason James also works with people in leadership roles, and supports individuals with workplace or relationship conflict issues.

Having spent several years working with police in training, James has also developed a keen interest in sports and performance psychology and has also worked with a number of athletes to achieve improved performance and to address a range of lifestyle challenges. Together with his use of strategies embedded in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapies that are backed by science, James’ counselling success, is his deep respect for his clients and their ability to discover the strengths within that help them to achieve their goals.

Leanne Hinsch

Leanne has followed her passion for working closely with organisations, teams, families, adults and children to build the focus of neuroscientifically-supported elements of compassion, kindness, resilience, belonging, care, mindfulness, emotional regulation, secure attachment, trust, growth, creativity, innovation, curiosity, and peak human performance into the cultural foundations of psychological recovery, wellbeing, and optimisation. For over almost 30 years she has worked in pioneering ways to care for professionals and people within high-performance safety-critical industries, particularly in medical, aviation, military, child safety, and humanitarian, disaster response, and emergency services, to build, review, reform and finesse thriving wellbeing, critical incident, and peer support systems, training programs, and psychological support sessions designed to change culture and improve personal capability as the primary catalyst for people to change their lives. She has an intimate working knowledge of the design, governance, management, research, safety, skills and supports required for the sustainability and longevity of these systems, organisations, and the thriving of people.

Along with supporting THRIVE's team of experienced health professionals, Leanne continues to provide therapeutic psychological sessions and coaching with individuals, workgroups and families, and has special interests in the functions of post traumatic growth, complex trauma, dissociation, anxiety, high impact event response, flourishing, improving cognitive acuity, psychological flexibility and peak performance. She has expertise in the use of EMDR, trauma-informed CBT, clinical hypnosis, tapping (EFT), Schema-Focussed Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Emotion-Focussed Therapy, Heart-Brain Coherence and Neurofeedback, group work, meditative practice and mindfulness, and professional supervision. This individual work reminds her of how important it is to build culture-focussed systems for collective prosperity that have the capacity and momentum to result in real change for people, organisations, and communities synergistically. In her personal and work life Leanne strives to bring compassionate and coherent connections and healing within the professional and conscious communities.