Health-Led Performance Strategy for high-pressure organisations, moving leaders from Strain to Agency.

I help CEOs, COOs and People leaders build organisations where performance and wellbeing are the same strategy, not a trade-off. Through keynotes, coaching and programs grounded in a proven framework and thirty years of leadership experience.

Featured in AFR and HRD | Former CMO, Australia’s Top 50 | Creator of Return on Self™ | 30 Years Senior Leadership Experience

Featured in the AFR.

Health-Led Performance Strategy

Every organisation reaches a tipping point where strain outweighs capacity, and performance, engagement and leadership all start to erode. I call this the shift from Strain to Agency, and it’s the work I’ve built my entire practice around.

Health-Led Performance Strategy is the framework I created to help organisations make that shift deliberately, using health and wellbeing as commercial performance levers rather than a wellness add-on. It moves leaders and teams through three transformations:

1. Chronic Burnout → Reclaimed Energy Awareness, Recovery, Resilience

2. Low Productivity → High Performance, Performance Shift, Leadership Effectiveness, Safe Performance

3. Low Engagement → Human Connection Psychological Safety, Human Leadership, Shared Ownership

This is the same thinking behind Return on Self™, the framework I created to link personal wellbeing directly to commercial performance measures. It’s built on thirty years of senior leadership experience, including my own years as CMO of an Australia’s Top 50 company, and it’s why my work has been featured in the AFR and HRD.

Ways We Can Work Together

Every engagement is designed around one or more of the three transformations at the heart of Health-Led Performance Strategy.

1. Chronic Burnout → Reclaimed Energy

Keynotes, coaching and programs focused on awareness, recovery and building genuine resilience in high-strain environments.

2. Low Productivity → High Performance

Workshops and corporate programs that shift performance safely and effectively, strengthening leadership capability without burning people out.

3. Low Engagement → Human Connection

Programs and retreats built around psychological safety, human leadership and shared ownership across teams.

Individual coaching, including NLP-based and executive women’s coaching, and custom wellbeing journeys, sit within these pillars depending on what you or your organisation need most.

FEATURED KEYNOTE

Powering Your Invincible

This keynote applies my Health-Led Performance Strategy framework to show leaders and teams how to move from Strain to Agency

Audience outcomes:

Understand the real drivers of burnout
Learn tools to regulate stress and emotional load
Build resilience grounded in self-awareness
Leave feeling empowered, connected and capable

My Tiered Wellbeing & Performance Partnerships

I work with organisations at different stages of their wellbeing, leadership and culture journey.

My tiered partnerships are designed to meet you where you are and support you as you grow.

Bronze
Foundations

Who it’s for:
Organisations beginning their wellbeing journey or seeking structured, professional support for smaller teams.

Focus

Building awareness and engagement
Introducing practical wellbeing and resilience skills
Creating early momentum without overwhelm

Silver
Capability & Leadership

Who it’s for:
Organisations ready to embed wellbeing more deeply across teams and leadership functions, particularly during periods of growth or change.

Focus

Leadership capability and psychological safety
Team resilience and performance under pressure
Integrated wellbeing across the employee experience

Gold
Culture & Performance

Who it’s for:
Large or national organisations where wellbeing, performance and culture are strategic priorities and measurable outcomes matter.

Focus

Long-term cultural change
Leadership behaviour and accountability
Data-informed wellbeing strategy and continuous improvement

Platinum
Executive Partnership

Who it’s for:
Complex, high-pressure or global organisations where wellbeing, leadership behaviour and psychological safety are business-critical risks and performance levers.

Focus

Executive-level wellbeing and performance strategy
Proactive psychosocial risk management
Ongoing leadership advisory and cultural oversight

Key Benefits

Strengthens wellbeing, resilience and sustainable performance
Supports leaders and teams to perform effectively under pressure
Builds psychological safety and healthier leadership behaviours
Embeds wellbeing into everyday practice, not one-off initiatives
Aligns wellbeing with performance, culture and organisational goals
Creates lasting change through practical, evidence-informed tools

My Philosophy

Organisations don’t invest in wellbeing to “do more activities”.
They invest to retain talent, reduce risk, strengthen leadership and build cultures that perform under pressure.

My tiered partnerships allow you to start where it makes sense and evolve as your organisation does.

WHY I DO THIS WORK

I thought I was invincible, until my cancer diagnosis.

I spent thirty years in senior leadership, including as CMO of an Australia’s Top 50 company, believing performance and personal health were separate battles you fought at the same time. In 2020, a breast cancer diagnosis, on top of years of undiagnosed burnout and chronic health issues including osteoporosis, high cholesterol, anaemia and endometriosis, proved me wrong in the most direct way possible.

Recovering meant relearning how energy, leadership and performance actually connect. That relearning became Return on Self™, the framework I use to link personal wellbeing to commercial performance measures, and later Health-Led Performance Strategy, the model I now bring to organisations navigating their own tipping points from Strain to Agency.

My story isn’t the method. It’s the proof that the method works.

Why: Keeping the lived experience but placing it after the model and credibility means it reads as evidence, not as the whole pitch.

Why I Speak

Every time I take a stage, I’m speaking to the point I nearly missed, where ambition and health stop being separate battles and start being one strategy.

I don’t do toxic positivity. I don’t do surface-level wellness tips.

I speak about:

Chronic Burnout → Reclaimed Energy How stress rewires the body and mind, and what real recovery and resilience look like once you stop grinding and start grounding.

Low Productivity → High Performance Why sustainable performance is a leadership skill, not a personality trait, and how it’s built deliberately, not willed into existence.

Low Engagement → Human Connection What it takes to build workplaces where people can succeed without losing themselves: psychological safety, human leadership, shared ownership.

This is Health-Led Performance Strategy, delivered from the stage. Every talk moves an audience a step further along the same path I help organisations walk: from Strain to Agency.

My Mission

To help people live and work in a way that honours their health, amplifies their potential and gives them permission to be fully human.

To teach leaders how to create environments where people feel seen, supported and psychologically safe.

To empower organisations to reduce burnout, improve performance and enhance wellbeing, not through theory, but through practical, lived-experience insights.

These are the message I bring to every stage, workshop and room I enter.

What My Audiences Say

Richie Gibson Business Owner & Life Coach

Roni strikes the perfect balance of compassion and accountability. She doesn’t let you hide, but she guides you gently forward. I left with clarity, confidence and real momentum. Highly recommend.

Ashling O’Brien CEO, Osteostrong

The Wellbeing Edge helped me see my life through a completely new lens. With Roni’s guidance, challenges felt lighter, solutions clearer, and change finally possible. A powerful, meaningful experience.

Jo Nipperess Networking Northern Beaches & Beyond

More than a speech, a powerful call to action.

Laura Jones Healthcare Practitioner

Working with Roni was genuinely transformative. She helped me break through blocks I’d carried for years. Her questions, warmth and insight are exceptional. Truly life-changing.

Shweta Raj HR Business Partner

Roni’s approach to wellbeing truly resonated with me, her insights helped me reflect on both my professional and personal habits, and I’ve already begun applying her techniques with our team and in my own life. Her focus on self-love, self-care, self-respect and self-worth was especially powerful. Thank you.

Blogs

Inspiration Blog

Be it in our personal or professional realms, we grow and progress in life when the graph of our lives shows us a down pattern. Equally, when we are feeling on top of the world and nothing can get us down, life is great, and we feel unstoppable. Check in regularly to read my blogs pieces to get inspired and motivated on a range of health and wellness topics.

Authentic Leadership Starts With Honest Self-Reflection

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Resilience & Trauma Recovery

True leadership starts inside. Self-awareness builds trust, resilience and cultures where people feel safely seen and valued. Authentic leadership isn’t about being

The Invisible Weight People Carry at Work and How Leaders Can Help

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Burnout & Performance

Everyone carries unseen struggles. This article shows how leaders can show up with compassion and honour the person behind the role. The

Choosing Yourself: Why Health Must Come Before Hustle

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Wellbeing & Self-Leadership

Wellbeing isn’t a reward, it’s the foundation for performance. Learn why slowing down and choosing yourself first leads to better outcomes in

Why “Wellbeing at Work” Fails, And What Leaders Must Do Differently

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Psychological Safety & Leadership

Wellbeing initiatives fail when they focus on perks instead of culture. Discover the real foundation of workplace wellbeing: daily leadership behaviours. Many