CORPORATE BURNOUT TO
HARDINESS
Build mentally tough, high-performing teams with Australia's only evidence-based hardiness training program.
Hands down the most valuable professional development session I have participated in to date.”
Sally Byrne, Marketing Director, Coca-Cola Amatil
Who is dr. Paul Taylor?
Psychologist
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Neuroscientist
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Exercise Scientist
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Nutritionist
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PhD
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Prac-Ademic
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Author & Podcaster
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HARDINESS -
RESILIENCE 2.0
Why your organisation needs hardy leaders and employees:
HARDINESS is more than resilience. It’s the foundation of sustainable peak performance in high-pressure environments - and it can be developed - with Dr. Paul’s proven intervention.
HARDINESS is described by academics as ‘the courage to grow from stress’. Resilience is an outcome, but it doesn’t tell us how to get there. Hardiness does.
Unlike generic resilience or wellbeing programs, Dr. Paul's approach is backed by peer-reviewed research showing measurable improvements in workplace Hardiness, mood, resilience and cognitive function.
HARDINESS
the burnout antidote
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Dr. Paul in action
Corporate burnout, fatigue and staff turnover are destroying potential and impacting individuals and businesses. Talent is under-utilised, or leaving the workforce. Hardiness has been shown to enhance leadership effectiveness and adaptability, increase employe engagement, and reduce presenteeism, burnout and staff turnover.
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Jeff Walsh, GM Technology Capability
...enough science to ensure a change in behaviour in any stubborn but intelligent exec."
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Ohan Moss, General Manager, AOT Hotels
“One of the best keynote presentations that I have seen.”
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Scott Fyfe, CEO Country Road Group
“Paul Taylor is one of the most motivating and inspirational speakers who we have worked with in the past 10 years.”
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Colin Sampson, CFO, SAP Asia-Pacific
"Probably the best corporate/personal leadership training workshop that I have attended anywhere in the last twenty years!”
The HARDINESS EFFECT
The research findings
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Enhanced leader performance
Improved perseverance during stressful activities
Greater work effort and service engagement
Decreased burnout and improved retention
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Increased organisational citizenship behaviours
Better adaptation to new cultural environments
Greater moral courage and small-unit cohesion
Improved competence and coping self-efficacy
Enhanced leadership effectiveness and adaptability
Reduced workplace injury and turnover intention
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Improved job satisfaction and embeddedness
Enhanced organisational commitment
Reduced employee cynicism and presenteeism
Greater dedication and vigor
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Reduced anxiety, depression, and psychological distress
Decreased burnout and emotional exhaustion
Lower risk of eating disorders and alcohol abuse
Improved general and spiritual health
Enhanced basic need satisfaction and happiness
Better sleep quality and shift work tolerance
Master yourself instead of ‘managing’ stress and ‘making do’. Like a sword forged in the fire, challenges can be used to refine you into a warrior of the mind. Life is hard, but we don't need coddled minds. We need targeted action.
That’s where hardiness comes in - hardy people suffer less burnout, deal better with stress, have better health and immune responses to stress.
Paul is the only provider in Australia who has a program proven to enhance hardiness - as well as mood, resilience and even cognitive function of employees.
So don’t settle for mediocre - give your people the tools to enhance their hardiness and grow from stress.
About DR. Paul
Dr. Paul Taylor is a Psychophysiologist, with a PhD in Psychology, separate master's degrees in Exercise Science and Nutrition and a postgraduate qualification in Neuroscience. A former Royal Navy Officer and Adjunct Professor at University of San Francisco, Paul is a leading expert in hardiness - the cutting-edge science that transforms stress into competitive advantage.
As Director of Paul Taylor Consulting, he delivers keynote talks and hardiness training, leadership and performance workshops to companies such as Oracle, SAP, PWC, NAB, CBA, BUPA & the Australian Military. He has conducted published research that shows that his programs have proven benefits for increasing hardiness, cognitive function and employee wellbeing, whilst reducing burnout across multiple industries.
Paul is the author of the best-selling, multiple award-winning book "Death By Comfort" and has just released his second book, "The Hardiness Effect". Paul also hosts the Hardiness Podcast, which is in the top 0.5% of all podcasts globally, and has developed a hardiness app to help people develop this crucial life skill.
His media experience includes co-hosting the TV series "Body and Brain Overhaul," appearing on "The Biggest Loser" as a subject matter expert and being voted Australian Fitness Industry presenter of the year twice.
Paul's high-pressure leadership experience includes roles as Airborne Anti-submarine Warfare Officer and Helicopter Search-And-Rescue Crew Member with the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. He's undergone rigorous Military Combat Survival training, became a professional boxer in 2012, and in 2021, both Paul and his son Oscar became Australian Karate Champions.
Qualifications:
PhD in Psychology
MSc Exercise Science
MSc Human Nutrition
(with distinction)PG Cert in Neuroscience
BSc Hons
ACSM Health & Fitness Instructor
Certificate IV in Workplace Training
Certificate IV in Fitness
Listen to the Podcast
Strengthen your mind and body with the Paul Taylor podcast, which is in the top 0.5% of global podcasts.
Expertise you can understand from a PracAdemic with the knowledge you can put into practice.
Dr. Paul Taylor Books
Grow from stress, optimise health, live longer.
CHALLENGE YOUR BODY, TRAIN YOUR BRAIN, EXTEND YOUR LIFE.
Master the four pillars of psychological hardiness
Harness Hormesis to live longer and healthier
Tune your daily rhythms for peak performance
Reclaim your human nature
Escape the comfort trap
Survive and thrive in the modern world
Backed by powerful research on neuroscience, anthropology and nutrition, Death by Comfort is a fascinating read that explores exactly what s wrong and what we need to do in order to survive and thrive in the modern world.
1:1 Coaching
WITH CARLY TAYLOR
Carly coaches people to discover what they are capable of and to break through the barriers that hold them back. The mindset tools she teaches come from modern, Eastern and Stoic philosophy.
As well as being trained in Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Japanese Psychology, Carly is a University-qualified Nutritionist, a Certified Personal Trainer and a certified Health Coach with over 10 years experience in the area of coaching behaviour change. She is a member of HCANAZ.
