Fleur Heazlewood

Fleur Heazlewood is a leadership expert in healthy, high performance and multi award-winning author.

Her debut book Resilience Recipes, a practical guide to better personal wellbeing won best Health and Wellbeing Book for 2022 and won runner up for Book of the Year 2022 at the Australian Business Book Awards. Her follow up book Leading Wellbeing - A leaders guide to mental health conversations at work, won best leadership book 2024, best Management & HR book 2024 and Book of the Year 2024 at the Australian Business Book Awards. She also won gold for the business category at the International Non-fiction book awards 2024.

Fleur brings over 20 years’ corporate leadership experience including as CEO, where she led many successful organisational turnarounds and culture transformations. She partners with leaders to create healthy, resilient, and high-performance for themselves and their teams. She has trained and mentored over 5000 leaders in future-fit resilience, mental health mastery and positive leadership skills across the globe.

Fleur’s experience is backed by an evidence-base drawn from extensive qualifications and learning including a Masters In Coaching Psychology, Professional Coaching Certificate with the International Coach Federation, Bachelor of Commerce, Company Directors Certificate, Master Instructor Mental Health First Aid, and 500-hour qualified yoga therapy teacher. She works across the full breadth of sectors ranging from government to financial services to higher education to construction and retail with organisations such as Department of Veterans Affairs, University of Melbourne, and Woolworths.

Resilience Recipes:

This engaging, easy to read, evidence-based wellbeing guidebook cuts through the sea of wellness information with a curated selection of resilience and wellbeing strategies that are proven to work. While there is no one-size fits all solution to wellbeing, there is a resilience recipe that will work for you. Most of us know the basics for good physical health but don’t know how to support our psychological wellbeing. Your step-by-step guide covers where to start, what to do, and what works for boosting your wellbeing with resilience.

Leading Wellbeing:

Leaders have the responsibility to provide a psychologically safe and well work environment for their teams. With rising levels of stress and burnout, and one in five people experiencing mental illness, mental health conversation skills are no longer a nice-to-have. Many leaders feel ill-equipped, lacking the skills and training to have the difficult and supportive mental health conversations that are needed to support the wellbeing of their people.

Leading Wellbeing answers the key concerns for leaders and presents a clear framework to follow for recognising the signs someone is struggling, providing psychological safety, what to say, what is appropriate support, and how to balance both care and performance needs.

"Resilience Recipes and Leading Wellbeing should be compulsory reading for all leaders wanting to achieve both healthy as well as high performance for themselves and their teams." - Eugene McGarrell, General Manager Commissioning, Sydney Health Network