High performance shouldn’t come at the cost of burnout.
We help people and organisations recognise and manage stress risk — before it undermines health and performance.
Grounded in work psychology. Delivered through structured, practical approaches.
Our Solutions
Modern day working presents a new set of workplace risks. Here’s how we help you manage them:
Preventing Burnout
Measuring, surfacing and acting on early stress signals - before they escalate
Sustaining Performance Under Pressure
Equipping people to harness pressure to perform effectively in demanding environments
Performance and pressure follow a predictable pattern
The difference between high performance and burnout isn’t pressure — it’s how well its understood and managed.
The goal isn’t to remove pressure — it’s to operate in the zone of healthy, sustainable performance
We help people and organisations do this by:
measuring, quantifying and providing insight into stress risk to enable preventative action
strengthening how individuals and leaders respond to pressure and stress.
designing workplaces and ensuring good person - environment fit to reduce unnecessary strain
Powered by AURA — a science-led framework for measuring, understanding and managing stress risk.
How We Build Stress Intelligence
Sustaining performance under pressure requires more than wellbeing initiatives.
It requires insight into stress risk, stronger capabilities, healthier working environments and alignment between people’s strengths and roles.
Our work focuses on four areas:
Providing evidence-based insight into stress levels, resilience and burnout risk - enabling early action before performance and wellbeing are affected.
Services include:
Personal Stress & Resilience Diagnostics
Team Health Assessments
Organisational Stress Reporting
Improving ways of working, leadership practices and job design that contribute to undue stress.
Services include:
Workplace Risk Factor Identification
Organisational Interventions
Team Action Planning
Equipping individuals, teams and leaders with practical skills to navigate pressure and change.
Services include:
Stress & Sustainable Performance Coaching
Workshops & Learning Programmes
Manager Capability Development
Ensuring people are in roles where they can thrive through leadership and role-fit evaluation.
Services include:
Leadership Assessment & Selection
Person - Environment Fit
Job Crafting Programmes
Trusted by leading organisations worldwide
The AURA Stress Intelligence Assessment has be used in 20+ countries since 2016
Validated methodology · Scientifically grounded · Stress intelligence framework · Applied across individuals, teams and organisations
What Clients Say
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“We now believe measuring employee resilience is more important than measuring engagement”
Treesan Boonma, Head of APAC HR, Booking.com
"Our use of AURA was invaluable in assessing our resilience challenges both personally and as a team”
Maria Elkin, CEO, Equal Justice
"The team were able to uncover opportunities to create healthier habits and as a management team, we were able to better understand the pain points and put in place a targeted action plan to address these”
Sarah McLellan, Head of Professional Services, SHL
“Superb. I hadn’t realised how stress had been impacting me - and now I have practical tools to help me cope and be at my best”
Kylie Laidlaw, Associate Director, Headhunter
AURA Was Founded by Rachel Austen
Chartered Occupational Psychologist • Creator of the AURA Framework • Leadership Assessor & Coach • Workplace Burnout Specialist
I’ve got 20 years of experience of working with organisations across over 30 countries.
I’ve spent my career helping people build self-awareness and enhance their performance — working with hundreds of leaders, teams and organisations around the world. This has given me deep insight into how workplaces function, the challenges leaders face and what people need to thrive.
Today, my work focuses on helping organisations sustain high performance under pressure without burnout, misfit or hidden stress risk.
With a background in occupational psychology and psychometric assessment, my work is grounded in rigorous psychological science and motivated by my own personal experience of burnout.
That is why I care deeply about early detection, practical intervention and meaningful impact.
I believe people can thrive at work without sacrificing their health and organisations can succeed without burning out their people.
Build A Workplace Where Performance and Wellbeing Can Thrive
Let’s explore how AURA can help your organisation understand stress and pressure, strengthen resilience and sustain performance.