Leadership Consultant · Systems Thinker · Strategy & Program Designer
Developing people, teams and organisations robust enough to adapt, and vibrant enough to grow through the complexities of a more-than-human world.
I help grow the human capacities this moment calls for — wisdom and clarity, trust and love, energy and systems-level thinking — hired directly or embedded within teams. A decade at the intersection of leadership research and flow science, partnering with everyone from Fortune 500 companies to Navy SEALs to social entrepreneurs.
1K+ clients
coached
10 years applied research
15 years global experience
TRUSTED BY:
LOOKING TO NATURE IN THE AGE OF MACHINES
The natural world doesn't resist disruption — it adapts and grows through it. So can you.
The Intersection of Wellbeing and Performance: Robustness
Most organisations treat optimal wellbeing and high performance as two distinct phenomena. In fact, they are intrinsically linked.
High performance is the outcome of people feeling safe, connected, focused, energised and purposeful. These conditions create a robustness — a vibrant energy and deep engagement — that empowers people, teams and organisations to grow, adapt and do their best work, together.
I believe, at this moment in time, developing these conditions for your people is vital. It is this robustness that will ensure they can meet any challenge with the curiosity, creativity and flexibility that allows for healthy adaptation and growth in an unpredictable, and more than human world.
Remote-first. Available globally.
I believe growing our inner human capacity is the work of today. This is what builds robustness. The ability to seek, learn and grow through challenges and adversity.
SECTOR EXPERTISE
Where the work is needed most.
I focus on four sectors where the pressure on people and performance is highest; the psychosocial conditions most acute; and where the legal obligation to do the right thing has never been more urgent.
SECTOR ONE
Social Enterprise, NFP, & Health
Caring professions are in systemic burnout. Clinicians absorb other people's trauma. NFP staff run on mission past the point of sustainability. Public servants carry institutional pressure with little support. Post-Traumatic Growth and flow science are directly applicable to all three — and rarely offered at this level of rigour to the people who need it most.
SECTOR TWO
Professional Services
Law and consulting firms face intensifying AI pressure on the value of expertise itself, a billable hour model that manufactures chronic stress, and a talent market where retention is the defining competitive battle. The firms that win won't out-bill the pressure — they'll out-build their people's capacity to meet it.
SECTOR THREE
Mining & Resources
High-stakes performance culture. Acute burnout and retention pressure. Safety environments that demand peak human function, with no margin for error. Add FIFO rosters and remote isolation, and this becomes one of the most demanding people-environments in the country — where the cost of getting human capacity wrong isn't just turnover, it's safety.
SECTOR FOUR
Sports & The Arts
Sporting and arts organisations carry some of the most visible psychosocial risk failures of the last decade — and some of the most significant reputational and legal exposure. The work here is not with athletes or performers directly, but at the organisational and leadership layer: boards, performance directors, artistic directors, and the CEOs responsible for the environments in which elite humans create and compete. Flow science and post-traumatic growth are most legible in these high-stakes, high-pressure contexts — and most urgently needed.
THREE WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Want to create the conditions for robustness?
THE ORGANIZATION
Embedded Partner
Retainer · Onsite · Remote
For organisations who want a trusted human capacity partner embedded alongside their leadership. Working on an ongoing basis to strengthen leadership, culture, and talent capability — addressing the psychosocial conditions that deplete people, and building the human capacity that allows them to flourish.
THE INDIVIDUAL
Leadership Coaching
1:1 · Group · Remote
For organisations who want a trusted human capacity partner embedded alongside their leadership. Working on an ongoing basis to strengthen leadership, culture, and talent capability — addressing the psychosocial conditions that deplete people, and building the human capacity that allows them to flourish.
THE EXPERIENCE
Workshops & Intensives
Interactive · Remote · Onsite
Bring any programme from the Human Fluency suite into your organisation as a focused half-day or full-day experience. Sessions can be delivered remotely or adapted as bespoke workshops for your team’s context, helping people build the inner capacity to navigate pressure, change and complexity with greater clarity, resilience and wise action.
A BIT MORE ABOUT ME
Dr. Clare Sarah Goodridge
We're living through a liminal moment.
AI can now do more of the cognitive work than most of us expected — and yet the conditions that let people, and the wider web of life, actually flourish are as complex as they've ever been.
The human spirit is a remarkable, unruly thing. Its gift is recalibration — integrating what's hard, and growing from the new baseline it creates.
The most important work of our time isn't technological. It's human. It's growing people who can think at a systems level, lead with wisdom, and make decisions in kinship with land, wildlife, technology, and each other — decisions that let our planet, not just our organisations, flourish.
I've spent my career at the intersection of leadership science, flow research, and a single animating question: what does it actually take for all life to flourish?
That inquiry took me from the Flow Research Collective — where I trained and coached over 200 peak performance coaches — to founding The Future of Flourishing and Hearth, and to developing the Human Fluency Framework: a methodology integrating flow science, nervous system regulation, and behaviour change, built for exactly this moment.
This work has changed the people and organisations I've worked with. It's proof that human beings still have the capacity to surprise one another — to build love, patience, vitality, and tenacity in relation, together — and to turn something incredibly difficult into something unusual, beautiful, and deeply human. Moments that spark real energy, and remind us of love, wisdom, possibility, and meaning — an invitation to think a little bigger about what's possible, together with the land and life around us.
I bring doctoral-level rigour, warmth, and an unshakeable conviction: developing our inner human capacity, in relationship with each other and the more-than-human world, is vital — individually and collectively.
Clients I’ve partnered with: Accenture · Meta · Google · Microsoft · Disney · Mirantis · Bauhaus · Singularity University · San Francisco Police Department — alongside artists, Navy SEALs, politicians, Silicon Valley founders, and many, many artists, creatives and social entrepreneurs.
Doctorate of Business Leadership
MA Arts Management & Cultural Policy
BA Communications
Diploma Fashion & Textiles
Certified Executive Leadership Coach
Certified Philosophical Health Counsellor
Founder, The Future of Flourishing
Co-founder, Hearth Leadership
Crisis Line Volunteer
Board Director, Flourishing Business CoLab
Board Member, Sanctuary for Sentient Beings
Board Committee Member, Vet and Animal Care
Radio Presenter, RTRFM 92.1
IN THEIR WORDS…
The rare combination of intellect, humour and heart.
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DR. MICHAEL MANNINO
NEUROSCIENTIST, PHILOSOPHER & COACH
Clare has the perfect blend of intellect and heart, a rare combination: knowledge, and empathy. Her knowledge of the science of flourishing, human potential, positive psychology, and flow science is vast, and her vision for developing a world where humans can flourish will have great impact. Among Clare’s true gifts, is her singular ability to create and foster trust and psychological safety among people she works with. I have personally seen how her wealth of experience, true passion and purpose, and deep scientific expertise has helped many people.
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DR. SARAH SARKIS
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST & CHIEF OF PERFORMANCE
Clare is one of those rare people who embodies equal parts intelligence, vulnerability, strength and humor. She coaches with her whole heart. Her depth of knowledge, her commitment to science & her deep understanding of human psychology all contribute to her unique style of coaching. My advice- hire Clare if you’re truly invested in transformation. You won’t regret it.
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RIAN DORIS
CEO FLOW RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
Clare’s incredible work ethic, loyalty and commitment to impacting clients was a cornerstone of us being able to build Flow Research Collective so quickly. This desire to serve—even in the throws of startup conditions—was crucial. Clare single-handedly served all of our first ~1000 clients. She built programs rapidly and supported me in developing Zero-To-Dangerous, our foundational product which has generated ~$15M+ in revenue. The sheer volume of work Clare embraced, and accomplished working with us is mind-boggling to reflect on.
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JEANNIE CHAMBERLAIN
INTEGRATED COACH
Clare is a force of nature. She has an amazing ability to help you see more clearly and realize potential you didn’t know you had. The safe spaces she creates allow you to feel heard, seen and appreciative for who you truly are. Clare’s presence powerfully penetrates every room, she walks into transforming it for better.
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STONE PERALES
ART DIRECTOR
I recently had the opportunity to work with Clare and not only was her group coaching well structured, helpful, and engaging, what impressed me the most was her ability to connect and help people through a gentle, patient, and intelligent approach. She has a warm, welcoming presence, and in addition to bringing relevant research to her coaching, her network of subject matter experts is very impactful. I’ve come to know Clare as a brilliantly educated person, who is wholly committed to the art of helping people through her research and life experience.
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DYLAN LAMB
SOCIAL ENTREPRENUER
Clare is my flow coach, advisor and dear friend. She's helped me to realise my true potential as an entrepreneur and designer; in both my life and my work. Her council, coaching and friendship is invaluable. She is the toki (とき) ~Japanese word for time dealer from the future, I often master moments in my life and think of her afterwards. Get a toki dealer and badass in your life like Clare.
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ADAM R. BROWN
LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT
Clare has a wonderful sense of empathy combined with deep knowledge of cognitive science & positive and humanistic psychology. Her coaching methods hold space with the appropriate encouragement to reach for solutions and act on them. Plus, her understanding human of behaviour within social systems is incredibly useful!
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RAIZA SALI
PEAK PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT
When I think of Clare, I see a beautiful heart & a brilliant mind. Her ability to connect on a deeply personal level fostered a sense of trust & mutual respect, creating a strong foundation for our professional relationship. Her unique blend of expertise, empathy, & unwavering support has been instrumental in helping her clients' unlock their full potential & live a more fulfilling & meaningful life.
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ALEJANDRO J.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENUER & COACH
Working with Clare was a massive leap in my professional journey, helping me unlock the power of Flow states in both my personal and professional life. During our sessions, I had a breakthrough moment when I shared my struggles with integrating a time management and productivity strategy into my routines. Clare's advice was simple yet profound: "Focus on your strengths first, then tackle your weaknesses." This kind of insightful guidance was a regular occurrence throughout our coaching. Clare is not only an incredible coach & trusted colleague, but also a community builder for those of us looking to thrive
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STEVE ZEIGAR
ENTREPRENEUR & SYSTEMS THINKER
Clare was my coach in various capacities for many years. She is very sensitive to people's emotional needs while not losing sight of business necessities and "holding your feet to the fire" as needed. She always meets you where you are at and helps you find the next meaningful step.
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PAULINE DUGOULD
CREATIVE FOCUS COACH
I equate Clare community, care and collaboration. The level of heartfelt understanding that Clare brought to every digital online group interaction has been truly inspiring. She firmly held the threads of connection among all who were present on virtual calls. If there is such role in the world as leading the gentle change of self awareness, compassion and kindness - Clare is an ambassador to that. She carries within her the seeds of awakening to our inner aspects that have laid dormant in the face of the masculine corporate world of agendas and structures. She truly shines the light that is an antidote to chaos of burnout, confusion and resistance. If you want someone intelligent who can also hold space, listen to you deeply and understand you at the level you may not even understand yourself - you want to work with Clare!
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FRIDA ROBERTS
LEADESHIP CONSULTANT
I am delighted to share my experience with Clare, a truly remarkable person, facilitator and Coach. Clare's ability to create magic and sustain a safe space, individually or in group sessions, is unparalleled. She possesses a unique talent for listening beyond words, gently pushing you forward on your journey while creating clarity and momentum. Clare's approach, grounded in the latest science of human potential, is an absolute game-changer and I can wholeheartedly recommend here.
