Your values are only real under pressure

Values Under Pressure: How leaders’ choices under pressure reveal what they protect, tolerate and prioritise.

Leaders are under constant pressure to move faster, make harder calls and keep people engaged through uncertainty. The hidden risk is treating values as statements to repeat, when teams actually judge them by what leaders protect, tolerate and prioritise when things get difficult. Russell’s work in resilient leadership reframes resilience as more than coping or bouncing back - it is learning from pressure and leading in ways that strengthen culture, decisions and performance. This conversation helps leadership audiences examine whether their day-to-day behaviour is creating the positive ripple they say they want across the organisation.

About Russell Harvey

Russell Harvey, podcast guest

The Resilience Coach | Resilient Leadership Expert

100,000+ People positively affected6,000+ Executive coaching hours£12M+ ROI delivered by RWE npower leadership programme20+ years Learning, leadership and organisational development

Russell Harvey is The Resilience Coach - a resilient leadership expert, executive coach, facilitator and keynote speaker who helps leaders and organisations perform at their best when the world refuses to stand still.

With more than 20 years in Learning, Leadership and Organisational Development, 6,000+ hours of executive coaching and over 70 published podcast appearances, Russell is an experienced and engaging voice on resilience, leadership and navigating persistent change. He has worked with leaders across organisations including Novartis, the NHS, AB World Foods, Kerry Group and The Co-operative Group.

Russell’s work goes beyond helping people simply cope with pressure. He believes true resilience isn’t about “bouncing back”, being tougher or pretending everything is fine - it’s about springing forward with learning and becoming better equipped to lead because of the challenges you’ve faced.

His approach connects the human side of leadership directly to what matters to organisations: engaged people, stronger cultures, better decisions and improved performance. His work has delivered measurable results, including a leadership programme that returned £12 million to the business and a Resilient Leader Programme that achieved more than 1,100% ROI.

In August 2025, Russell achieved his long-held purpose of positively affecting 100,000 people.

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