This isn't a framework I read about. It's one I've had to live.
I spent my twenties in jobs where there was no manual to fall back on. I ran a Commando engineer section on deployment. I worked response policing in some of the toughest parts of London. Then I built three businesses from scratch, with no team behind me and nobody to hand the hard bits to.
None of it prepared me for what came at home. My brother George died of cancer at 21. I ran the South Downs 100-mile ultra in his memory and raised over £4,000 for The George Hatfield Theatrical Arts Foundation, the charity we set up in his name. I'm still a trustee there now. Then, in November 2024, my three-year-old son died. SUDC, they call it. Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood. There's no tidy lesson in that, and I'm not going to pretend there is.
So when I say resilience can be trained, I'm not quoting a course I did on a weekend. I'm telling you what held me together, and what didn't.
It's the same foundation behind my other practice, fractional operations work for founders and startups. Different problem, same way of working. The full story connecting both is there if you want it.
“I train people and organisations to build real resilience. Not the kind you read about. The kind I've had to build myself, more than once. What that's taught me about holding up under pressure is what I now pass on.”