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Outperform, Outlast, Outmanoeuvre
Significant change causes significant stress.
According to a recent Medicare Private commissioned report, stress and low mood account for 33% of lost productivity in Australia. This presenteeism (employees at work but not fully functioning) and absenteeism are directly costing Australian employers $10.11 billion per year. Since the report 2 years ago, workplace counselling for anxiety and stress have increased 68% and 76% according to Davidson Trahaire Corpsych, Australia’s largest EAP providers.
We can’t stop change but we can choose how we respond to it. Setbacks can cause us to slide down the moodometer, but teams and organisations that learn the skills to bounce back fast will outperform, outlast, and outmanoeuvre those that don’t. In fact, Harvard Business Review says that more than experience, more than education or training, resilience determines who succeeds and who fails.
About Graeme
Having spent most of his life as a senior executive for organisations like Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Morgan and Banks and AT Kearney, Graeme Cowan's life hit a seemingly insurmountable roadblock in 2000, when he was diagnosed with severe depression. Five years and numerous hard setbacks and decisions later, Graeme emerged not only with the bestselling book BACK FROM THE BRINK to his name, but also with a new attitude towards the traditional ways that companies and individuals approach adversity. His second book won a national mental health award, and he is also the author of the report “Best Practice in Managing Mental Health in the Workplace”.
His knowledge is based on personally interviewing over 3000 people to understand their personal bounce factor, combined with exhaustive evidence based research. This confluence of practice and theory has changed the paradigm on how to turn adversity into an inspired and meaningful life.
Proven Results
Thousands of people around the world have benefited from this knowledge through seeing him in person, in the media, reading his books, or via webinars. He has presented to diverse groups ranging from the leadership team of multinational organisations, to people immobilised by the dual diagnosis of cancer and depression.
Graeme comes across as the “ordinary guy”, with deep authenticity and fascinating stories from his travel to 48 countries. Despite experiencing many different cultures, he observes more “oneness” than “difference” in people.
To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is not how many times you fall that counts, but how high you bounce, that ultimately determines your performance and fulfilment.
