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Resilience training from Phil Richards MBE
Master the PROOF™ Framework — Purpose, Resilience, Optimism, Objectives and Focus. Practical strategies developed through lived experience, with learning paths for team members, managers and executives.
The problem
The cost of low resilience rarely shows up on one line of a budget — it shows up everywhere else. Burnout, quiet attrition, decisions that stall under uncertainty, change programmes that never land.
the annual cost of poor mental health to UK employers — absence, presenteeism and turnover.
working days lost to work-related stress, depression or anxiety in a single year.
UK workers say workplace stress has left them unable to cope.
Phil has worked with
Monday morning — same pressure
Pressure arrives unmanaged. People absorb it alone.
The PROOF™ Framework
Developed by Phil Richards MBE through lived adversity, then made teachable. Each one is something you can rehearse, measure and rely on — not a platitude you agree with and forget.
Your anchor in the storm — the why that holds when everything else moves.
Not unbreakable — the learned skill of bending without breaking.
Disciplined, not naive — finding the opportunity inside the obstacle.
The W.H.A.T. method — overwhelming challenges into clear, timed steps.
Energy where it matters — on what you control, under pressure.
Learning paths
Three routes through the same framework. Each route includes everything in the one below it.
Build personal resilience and foundational skills for workplace success.
Lead resilient teams and develop leadership capabilities.
How it works
Someone at your organisation sets your role — Team Member, Manager or Executive — and that role decides which courses appear in your dashboard.
Self-paced video courses, broken into modules and lessons. Progress is tracked as you go, so you can stop mid-module and pick up where you left off.
An AI learning assistant answers from the lesson content itself, pointing you at the specific lessons the answer came from.
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Why Phil
In 2017 Phil Richards received a life-changing cancer diagnosis. What emerged wasn't just personal survival — it was a framework for thriving, since taught to thousands of leaders. He was awarded an MBE for his services to business and charity.
“I chose to live with purpose — not despite the diagnosis, but because of it.”
Stories
For organisations
Every engagement is scoped to the organisation — roles, learning paths and rollout are set up around your teams. Talk to us about what your people are facing.
FAQ
Five disciplines: Purpose, Resilience, Optimism, Objectives and Focus. Phil Richards MBE developed them through lived adversity, then made them teachable. Each one is something you can rehearse, measure and rely on — not a platitude you agree with and forget.
Three routes through the same framework, chosen by the responsibility you carry rather than your job title. Team Member builds personal resilience. Manager adds leading resilient teams. Executive adds strategic resilience leadership. Each route includes everything in the one below it.
Through your organisation. Someone there enrols you and sets your role, and that role decides which courses appear in your dashboard. As your role changes, the content available to you changes with it.
Self-paced video courses, each broken into modules and individual lessons. Your progress is tracked as you go, so you can stop mid-module and pick up where you left off. No live sessions to attend and no fixed schedule.
Yes — an AI learning assistant is built into the platform. Ask it a question about anything in your courses and it answers from the lesson content itself, pointing you at the specific lessons the answer came from.
The same pressure, met with a framework.
Strategic resilience leadership with exclusive Phil Richards content.
This is the main testing for the Phil Richards-approved framework that enables users to go through the framework in detail.
“Phil's keynote transformed our leadership conference. The PROOF framework gave our team practical strategies they started using immediately.”
“The PROOF framework has transformed how our leadership team approaches challenges. Truly battle-tested wisdom.”
“Working with Phil has been transformational. His approach to resilience is grounded in real experience, not textbook theory.”