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Russell Harvey

Russell Harvey

Leadership, Resilience, and Growth Coach

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DECODING AQ - Adaptability Confidence With Ross Thornley

DECODING AQ - Adaptability Confidence With Ross Thornley

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Russell Harvey - The Resilience Coach

March 27, 2025

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What does Russell do? Well the opening line on his website says it all "he Supports Leaders Who are Wading Through Treacle to Rediscover their Mojo and make great decisions"

With over 2 decades years of experience in learning, leadership, and organizational development, Russell has dedicated the past 18 years to resilience and navigating the complexities of a VUCA world.

He’s an engaging leadership coach, speaker, and facilitator with a mission to positively impact 100,000 lives by the end of this year.  Passionate, pragmatic, and playful, Russell is here to share his insights on resilience, leadership, and helping people rediscover their mojo.

Ross and Russell talk about leadership at The Co-operative Group, restructure, change, defining resilience, bouncing back without learning, surviving, thriving, overwhelm, never add to the 'to do list', reducing stress, purpose & energy, positive effects, playing to strengths, reducing responsibilities, delegating, removing blockage to people performing and feeling lighter. The pair also discuss common understanding, fostering energy, wellbeing, lack of confidence, caring for people, optimism, grounding guiding hope, tough times forcing resilience, adaptability, agility, simplifying new things, permanent openness, burnout, adopting AI, what is working well, emotional intelligence, finding purpose, reflect back on your life and remember being proud, finding ways to be proud, natural energisers, enjoying work, fear, your network, intentional choice and asking for help.

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00:16 Intro to Russell00:54 Russell's background01:48 Becoming ‘The Resilience Coach’04:40 Clients journeys with Russell13:06 Giving teams and organisations resilience16:41 Russell's current activities and impacting 100,000 lives19:54 Darker times in the past and accepting reality24:44 Addiction recovery - Genius Recovery25:58 Proactive resilience and building resilience29:10 Suffering a role and identity loss32:23 VUCA and BANI - Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear and Incomprehensible33:54 Rolemodeling and unlearning35:53 EQ and AQ - Emotional Quotient and Adversity Quotient38:16 Building resilience in the next 10 days42:57 The last time Russell did something for the first timeConnect with Russell:

WebsiteLinkedInEmail: - russell@TheResilienceCoach.co.uk

Connect with Ross:

WebsiteLinkedInMoonshot Innovation Pivot Point Documentary

Russell Harvey Podcast Episodes

Mindset Booster

The Resilience Coach: Russell Harvey on Purpose, Mental Toughness & Why Most People Give Up Too Soon

Mindset Booster

May 2026

Leadership Circle Podcast

Interview with Russell Harvey

Leadership Circle Podcast

Mar 2026

Badass Leaders Podcast: Brave Hearts, Brave Conversations, Badass Leaders

Too Nice to Lead? The People-Pleaser Trap | Russell Harvey | S2 E10

Badass Leaders Podcast: Brave Hearts, Brave Conversations, Badass Leaders

Mar 2026

The Dr. Ginny Show

Episode 250: How to Break Resilience Myths and Spring Forward with Russell Harvey

The Dr. Ginny Show

Mar 2026

The Executive Edge

Are you coping, surviving — or actually thriving?

The Executive Edge

Mar 2026

IncrediPaul® Leadership

EP 155: The Power of Resilience in Leadership w/ Russell Harvey

IncrediPaul® Leadership

Feb 2026

The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

Springing Forward: Why Resilient Leadership Lives in Everyday Relationships

The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

Feb 2026

Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership

353: Resilience Isn’t Optional: Tools Every Nonprofit Leader Needs Now (Russell Harvey)

Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership

Jan 2026

Incite Change

Interview with Russell Harvey

Incite Change

Dec 2025

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Key topics

Professional Development & Coaching

With 10,000+ hours of experience, Russell champions coaching as a powerful tool for leadership growth. He demystifies the process, showing how coaching boosts confidence, clarity, and results, and how leaders can embed coaching into everyday team development.

Why Employers Can’t Be Your Career Strategy Anymore

Career ladders are gone, and AI and restructures are rewriting roles faster than HR can adapt. Russell Harvey, known as _The Resilience Coach_, argues that relying on employers for growth is a dead end. With two decades in leadership and coaching, he shows why modern professionals must treat their careers like living systems—constantly learning, experimenting, and adapting. His practical approach to resilience turns uncertainty into an advantage, helping people design careers built on curiosity, confidence, and personal ownership rather than corporate promises.

Why Leaders Misread VUCA as a Threat Instead of an Advantage

Most executives see volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity as forces to fear, when in reality they’re the conditions where resilient leaders can thrive. Russell shows how reframing VUCA as an opportunity sparks innovation, sharpens decision-making, and builds teams that adapt rather than fracture under pressure. With 18 years immersed in resilience and change leadership, and experience across organisations from the NHS to global corporates, Russell brings both practical tools and lived insight to help leaders turn turbulence into traction.

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