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Resilience, Flexibility and Agility

Articles

American Psychological Association (2012) Building your resilience, American Psychological Association.
Available at: https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience/building-your-resilience

Centre for Creative Leadership (no date c) Recovery Practices to Foster Resilience & Prevent burnout, CCL.
Available at: https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/improve-performance-foster-resilience-prevent-burnout-recovery-practices/ 

Craig, H. (2019) Resilience in the Workplace: How to be Resilient at Work, PositivePsychology.com.
Available at: https://positivepsychology.com/resilience-in-the-workplace/

Cross, R.C., Dillon, K. (2024) The 7 types of people you need in your life to be resilient, ideas.ted.com.
Available at: https://ideas.ted.com/the-7-types-of-people-you-need-to-be-resilient-microstresses/

Entelechy Academy Limited (2023a) Skill 3: Resilience, flexibility, and agility, LinkedIn.
Available at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/skill-3-resilience-flexibility-agility-entelechyacademy/

Human Focus (2025) Ways to Boost Employee Resilience, Human Focus.
Available at: https://humanfocus.co.uk/blog/ways-to-boost-employee-resilience/

Jay, M. (2018) 8 tips to help you become more resilient, ideas.ted.com.
Available at: https://ideas.ted.com/8-tips-to-help-you-become-more-resilient 

Mind (no date) Self-care and managing stress and building resilience | mind.
Available at: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/stress/managing-stress-and-building-resilience/

NeuroQuest AI (2023a) Skill 3: Resilience, flexibility, and agility , Medium.
Available at: https://neuroquest.medium.com/skill-3-resilience-flexibility-and-agility-8caa0651484f

Schneider, G. and Ross, M.J. (2026) Resilience won’t save your organization. adaptability will, Harvard Business Review.
Available at: https://hbr.org/sponsored/2026/02/resilience-wont-save-your-organization-adaptability-will

Videos

Chen, J.M. (2026) What losing everything taught me about resilience, TED.
Available at: https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_marie_chen_what_losing_everything_taught_me_about_resilience

Eells, G. (no date) Cultivating resilience, YouTube.
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLzVJVM1BUc&t=129s

Epel , E. (no date) Resilience at Work – Workplace Wellness Summit 2019, YouTube.
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvUtHb-DuUY

Webinar recordings

Centre for Creative Leadership (no date a) How leaders can build organizational resilience to thrive in uncertain times (webinar), CCL.
Available at: https://www.ccl.org/webinars/how-leaders-can-build-organizational-resilience/

Centre for Creative Leadership (no date b) How to boost employee resilience by updating your organization’s meeting culture (webinar), CCL.
Available at: https://www.ccl.org/webinars/boost-employee-resilience-updating-meeting-culture/ 

Podcasts

Biesinger, D. (no date) The Resilience Breakthrough Podcast, Spotify.
Available at: https://open.spotify.com/show/5A2beQuRYlIoIIWQqGK0ok

Davidson, L. (no date) Building Resilience, Spotify.
Available at: https://open.spotify.com/show/22bteFXDfM2Puzp3zSTUY

Maxwell Leadership Podcast (2024) Strength and Resilience in Leadership, Spotify.
Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DO1Vti0JShy25mYo4ZQEO?si=ud3t5L1KQZaAwyYby6YTwQ

Maxwell Leadership Podcast (2025) Rules of Resilience with Valorie Burton, Spotify.
Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/21wlNONTqnVLg4GxfpUNVk?si=IdNdhgz-RyuVZU7bgtsXUA

Pelletier, M.-H.P. (2023) Making a Resilience Plan, Spotify.
Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/18FWzGc9wCRxIoyzPYa1Bd?si=hyl_3bkpQKyGDByzh8cqRg

The Leadership Habit (2021) Self-care for Leadership Resilience, Spotify.
Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Wo1QIw84BBE165mzxR416?si=gWsVJebtTja9qCCLhG8adw