Positively Thriving

Senior leaders are often surrounded by people yet feel deeply alone with tough decisions, constant visibility and ultimate accountability.

This blog explores the loneliness paradox at the top, why it matters for performance and wellbeing, and how a strong external Bench – including executive coaching – can provide the confidential, human space every leader needs.

From January 2027, the Employment Rights Act 2025 will quietly raise the bar on how organisations and leaders manage their people.

In this blog we explore what’s changing, why it lands squarely on line managers’ desks, and how practical performance management, conversation skills and coaching can turn legal risk into stronger everyday leadership.

Burnout isn’t a badge of honour, and yet so many executives seem to think it’s a natural part of the workplace, driving themselves until they reach a point of complete collapse.

Rachel Morris and therapist Miranda Rock discuss their first hand experiences of support executives, and the actions individuals and organisations can take, in episode 2 of Work Truths: Off the Record.

Burnout rarely announces itself with a crash. It creeps in as a slow disappearing of self - until one day you realize you’ve been operating on empty, disconnected from your body, values, and voice.

Rachel Morris and Catherine Lightfoot discussed this and other insights in this conversation about Burnout in episode 1 of Work Truths: Off the Record

If you’ve ever felt drowned by the demands of work and life, you know you’re not alone.

At CityLit’s Mental Wealth Festival, Rachel Morris and Helen Brooks explored practical ways to regain control, transform overwhelm into action, and build true resilience—tools everyone can use to thrive in our high-pressure world.

Burnout doesn't just sneak up on teams—it announces itself in silence, missed deadlines, and fading energy.

Real resilience in teams isn’t built through overwork or empty slogans.

When did you last ask someone how they were, and although they said ‘fine’ you weren’t convinced? It happens regularly in the coaching room, as Rachel Morris acknowledges.

The way we communicate when faced with the signs of stress has a huge impact; finding a way of enabling someone to open up and discuss their true emotions is a real skill…

Stress seems to have become a badge of honour in modern working life. Conversations in the coaching room suggest that many people accept it as the price of ambition, of building a career or of having increased responsibility.

But if the “slippery slope” resonates silently, you may well already recognise the meaning of burnout.

We don’t believe that mental health in the workplace will improve through campaigns and slogans alone, or through nice sounding values written on lovely walls.  

It only improves when actions match intentions. When mental health isn’t an afterthought but woven into ‘who we are, and how the work in our place gets done’.  Rachel explores her beliefs in our latest blog.

We are all delighted to celebrate Rachel Morris’ latest achievement. Her book, Working Mother, received a Highly Commended award at the Business Book Awards.

Here at Motion we are so proud to support her commitment to advancing conversations around work, life, and the parental transition through her heartfelt, practical and wise words.

For HR and talent leaders, choosing the most suitable approach to develop your people and teams can be challenging.

Two effective options - group coaching and team building - are often confused, yet they serve very different purposes. Find out more.

We are currently living in a world where remote and hybrid working models are the norm.

In our latest blog, Rachel Morris explores the way each type of work setting has brought new challenges for leadership teams, and how group coaching can help.

Stepping into a leadership role for the first time can feel both exciting and daunting.

But when a person accepts their first management role it brings with it a new set of challenges. With group coaching organisations can provide a supportive environment for its new managers and leaders.

In today's competitive business landscape, everyone's hunting for that magic bullet – an intervention that delivers genuine returns, not just on the bottom line, but in culture, innovation and sustained employee performance.

Our clients are no different., which Howard Rich discusses in his latest blog.