Sadie Restorick's biography
International Women's Day
- CEO of Wellity Global and keynote speaker
- Trained over 100,000 professionals in workplace wellbeing
- Award-winning Great British Businesswoman of the Year 2024
Sadie Restorick is the CEO of Wellity Global and a keynote speaker whose work sits at the intersection of wellbeing, leadership, culture, and workplace performance.
Sadie holds an MSc with Distinction in Workplace Health and Wellbeing and has trained over 100,000 professionals across some of the world's largest organisations. Named Great British Businesswoman of the Year in 2024 and Global Inspirational Woman of the Year in 2025, her research has been presented at the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology and featured by BBC News, ITV, The Telegraph, and The Guardian. Most recently, she was named a finalist in the Global Entrepreneur of the Year category at the Allica Bank Great British Entrepreneur Awards.
After surviving severe domestic abuse as the highest-risk case in the UK, and rebuilding her life following CPTSD and agoraphobia, Sadie brings 15 years of professional expertise alongside a lived understanding of recovery, resilience, and sustained performance. Her keynotes translate complex behavioural science into strategies leaders can apply immediately, shaped around each audience's specific pressures and industry context.
Audiences consistently leave Sadie's sessions with a clearer understanding of what drives burnout and high-functioning exhaustion in high performers, practical tools drawn from positive psychology to strengthen team engagement and psychological safety, and a reframed perspective on adaptability that helps leaders sustain performance through uncertainty.
Book Sadie for evidence-led insight grounded in lived experience that changes how your people think, lead, and perform long after she leaves the stage.
Topics, sessions and talks
Unstoppable You: Unlock Your Superpower
Self-worth is not the same as confidence, and Sadie Restorick makes that distinction the starting point for everything. Drawing on her own experience of sustained abuse and its impact on her self-esteem, alongside behavioural science, she exposes the hidden patterns behind burnout, overworking, and high-functioning exhaustion. This talk challenges how high performers and leaders define success, rebuilds the relationship they have with themselves, and offers a more grounded foundation from which to perform sustainably.
The Agile Leader: The Adaptability Advantage
Many leaders are still trying to create certainty in conditions where certainty no longer exists. Sadie Restorick unpacks what adaptability actually looks like in practice, moving beyond theory to explore the mindset, behaviours, and leadership conditions that enable people to perform under pressure without burning out. Leaders leave with a clearer understanding of how to lead with intention and flexibility so that both people and performance can continue to thrive.
The Power Of Post-Traumatic Growth
Resilience is often framed as bouncing back, but Sadie Restorick challenges whether returning to who we were before is the right goal at all. Blending psychological research with her own journey from crippling agoraphobia and CPTSD to becoming a global CEO and keynote speaker, she reframes adversity as a catalyst for transformation. Audiences leave with a different way of understanding struggle, recovery, and strength, and a clearer sense of how to move forward with purpose.
The Corporate HERO: Positive Psychology In Practice
High performance is often treated as a product of pressure, targets, and incentives. Sadie Restorick offers a different framework: HERO, the four evidence-based psychological capacities of Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, and Optimism, proven to drive performance, engagement, and wellbeing. Rather than leaving these to chance, Sadie shows leaders and teams how to actively build them through everyday behaviours, creating cultures where sustained performance is possible.
The Future Of Sustainable Sales Performance
Sales environments are operating under mounting pressure: relentless targets, constant connectivity, and high-performance expectations are driving rising levels of burnout, anxiety, and stress across commercial teams. Sadie Restorick examines the relationship between mental health, wellbeing, and sustainable performance in modern sales cultures, challenging outdated approaches and exploring how organisations can build psychological safety into the way they operate. Teams leave better equipped to perform consistently, retain talent, and achieve long-term commercial results without burning out in the process.
Why we recommend booking Sadie
Sadie brings academic weight to the room, with an MSc in Workplace Health and Wellbeing and research presented at the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. Her work translating behavioural science into practical leadership tools has reached over 100,000 professionals across major global organisations. If your teams are navigating burnout or sustained pressure, she delivers exactly the kind of evidence-led perspective that sticks.
Sadie has been delivering workshops and trainings to employees at Nokia over the past three years, more recently our global mental health training series. Sadie takes time to really understand the demographic of the audience she's talking to, customising trainings to address specific concerns in a relevant and engaging way. Her trainings are always very interactive and her professionalism and expertise is highly valued. The feedback received is excellent. It's a pleasure working with Sadie!
We recently invited Sadie to talk at our EMEA Sales Summit, running a session around mental wellbeing in Sales. Sadie led with empathy, sharing her own experiences, around a topic which she is clearly very knowledgable and passionate about. This resulted in high engagement and a lot of follow up questions from our audience. The session was full of actionable advice on how to manage your mental wellbeing (in and out of the workplace) and extremely impactful - highly recommend!
Sadie has delivered a number of virtual sessions for us on mental wellbeing and I can't recommend her enough. Sadie takes time to understand our business, our aims and requirements and doesn't hesitate to tailor the sessions to ensure that they are exactly what we need. Sadie is extremely knowledgeable and her delivery style is fantastic, she puts people at ease and creates an environment which encourages people to engage. We have had excellent feedback about all of the sessions which Sadie has run for us. Thank you so much Sadie!
