Practical, science-backed strategies for HR professionals to cope with stress, decode patterns, and build habits that protect your energy

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Practical, science-backed strategies for HR professionals to cope with stress, decode patterns, and build habits that protect your energy

Rebecca Liljendahl talks to Carlton Martin about using Habits to avoid burnout. You're the emotional shock absorber for your organisation. You carry confidential burdens, manage crises, and show up for everyone else, often at the expense of your own wellbeing.

By evening, you're depleted. Netflix, wine, doom-scrolling - you've found ways to self-soothe that work in the moment but leave you further from where you want to be.

Here's what nobody tells you: those "bad habits" are data showing you exactly what you need.


In this one-hour interactive session, you'll discover:

  • Why your self-soothing patterns are information, not failure (and how to decode them)
  • The eight science-backed habits that create an unshakeable daily container—four to start your day focused and calm, four to help you disconnect and rest
  • The Habits Compass framework—a proven 6-step system for building sustainable behaviour change (designed for your worst days, not your best days)
  • Your personalised habit experiment—you'll leave with one practical step to implement immediately


This isn't another wellness talk that leaves you inspired but overwhelmed. This is a practical, science-backed framework built from thousands of coaching hours with HR and people leaders just like you.


Best for:
HR managers, people & culture leaders, and anyone in a caregiving role at work who's tired of putting everyone else first while running on empty.


Your facilitator: Rebecca Liljendahl

Rebecca spent 10+ years in corporate HR before moving to the wellbeing industry - watching the same pattern repeat: people would leave inspiring wellness talks full of enthusiasm, then struggle to translate intention into action. The gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it felt like an abyss.

Determined to find a better way, Rebecca returned to her psychology roots and trained with BJ Fogg from Stanford University's Behavioural Design Lab, the pioneer behind the science of Tiny Habits. She developed the Habits Compass framework specifically for people leaders who know they need to change but are too depleted to figure out how.

Rebecca now works with corporate clients across the NHS, energy, legal, and PR sectors, delivering training on sustainable behaviour change and energy management. Her approach is refreshingly realistic: she's not interested in perfection or willpower—she's interested in what actually works on your worst days.

As a business owner, mother of two, and caretaker of a deaf dog, Rebecca understands the reality of trying to build habits when life is chaotic and you're running on empty.

Qualifications: BSc Psychology |Assoc CIPD | ACC Coach | Trained in the Tiny Habits Method


Carlton Martin

Employee Relations Manager at London Stansted Airport. ER Speaker and Consultant. Extensive experience in complex, high level and business critical ER case management and resolution.


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