Sep 11, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership, Mental Toughness
Leadership and Mental Toughness. The role of resilience and positivity in leadership effectiveness Leadership is a quality that has always been important, often misunderstood, and now, in the 21st Century, it has a renewed importance. It’s at the top of the...
May 15, 2026 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
In 2025, in our Talking Toughness podcasts, we spoke with coaching thought-leaders, Jonathan Passmore and David Clutterbuck, about Coaching and AI, and its impact on practitioners who work in people, team and organisation development. They saw that coaching and...
Apr 30, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Employability, Mental Toughness, Recruitment and Selection
Get rid and replace or restore your underperforming employee? The mental toughness concept might just guide you to the best solution for everyone. It can be anyone who was once doing a good job and is now struggling. The cost of recruiting a replacement is fraught...
Apr 21, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness, Teamworking
Optimising Team Working – You need to understand it first. Mental Toughness really helps. Optimising Team Working is important. Arguably, it is the core challenge for leadership. As Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic puts it: “can you convince people to collaborate...
Feb 20, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
HOW TO BUILD AN ORGANISATION WHERE EVERYONE THRIVES THE MENTAL TOUGHNESS CONCEPT CAN BE THE KEY TO A SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO ENABLE ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR PEOPLE THRIVE. There are several reasons why culture has been overlooked in individual and organisational...
Feb 13, 2026 | Case Studies, Coaching, Mental Toughness, Sports
Working on Mental Toughness in the Dutch football Premier League: Three years of building at FC Utrecht Women The Centre for Mental Toughness NL has been involved in a challenging project in the Netherlands for three years: a new women’s team in the Premier...
