Ella Thurston

Ella Thurston is a leadership coach and workplace health and safety specialist based in Newcastle, Australia. She spent fifteen years in corporate leadership, the last of them at executive level in health, safety and culture, and knows the pressure that sits behind the title — and the quiet cost of holding it together while everyone reads you as fine. She now coaches ambitious senior leaders who want to perform at the top without running themselves into the ground, and continues to advise organisations on healthier ways of working. Trained in psychological science, human resource management, advanced nutrition science, inner work coaching and breathwork, she treats body, mind and belief as one system rather than three separate projects. Her practices focus on the breath as a way back into the body, and on the beliefs that make rest feel unearned. Ambition and wellbeing can share the same life. Balance is not a fixed state you arrive at — it moves, and the work is learning how to find your way back.

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