Sustaining Performance In A World of Constant Pressure
Organisations today face a new generation of workplace pressures.
If not managed constructively, these pressures can undermine performance, employee wellbeing and organisational resilience.
AURA is a work psychology consultancy that helps organisations build Stress Intelligence — the capability to recognise, understand and manage workplace pressure effectively
AURA helps leaders address four critical workplace challenges:
Relentless Pressure
New Ways of Working
Change Fatigue
Rising Burnout Risk
The solution is not to eliminate pressure — but to manage it intelligently.
Through scientific assessment, capability development and workplace interventions, we help organisations gain the insight, skills and systems needed to sustain performance under pressure and build healthy, high-performing workplaces.
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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What Clients Say *
“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.