Past event
Organised by The CIPD Branch in Jersey
Resilient as fudge: The neuroscience of resilience (even when work isn’t). With Dr Glenda Rivoallan, resilience expert.
What really happens in your brain when pressure hits? This engaging webinar explores the science behind resilience in a simple, relatable way. Discover why we react the way we do under stress—and how small shifts in thinking and behaviour can help individuals and teams handle challenges with greater confidence and clarity.
In today’s fast-paced and high-pressure workplaces, resilience is often talked about—but rarely understood at a meaningful level. Too often, it’s framed as “toughening up” or simply coping better. But the reality is far more nuanced—and far more human.
This engaging and thought-provoking session explores the neuroscience behind resilience, helping you understand what’s really happening in the brain during stress, pressure, and overwhelm. From the role of the Amygdala in triggering threat responses, to how the Prefrontal Cortex supports rational thinking, you’ll gain practical insight into why people react the way they do—and how those responses can be reshaped.
At the heart of the session is Dr Glenda Rivoallan’s “Resilient as Fudge” model—a refreshingly realistic, flexible framework that moves away from rigid, one-size-fits-all approaches. Instead, it offers a practical way to navigate stress by combining emotional awareness, cognitive reframing, behavioural action, growth, and energy management.
Crucially, this webinar goes beyond individual coping strategies. It challenges organisations to reflect on the environments they create—highlighting the impact of workload, culture, and psychological safety on resilience. Because resilience isn’t just a personal responsibility—it’s a shared one.
In this session, you will:
This is not about asking people to do more with less. It’s about helping people—and organisations—respond better, together
About the speaker
Dr Glenda Rivoallan
Glenda otherwise known as Dr G, is a multiple award-winning wellbeing entrepreneur having successfully sold multiple wellbeing brands. As a resilience & wellbeing expert, author and speaker with over 30 years in the fitness and wellbeing industry, Glenda’s passion is contagious. Her most recent book Resilient as Fudge became an amazon best seller in 5 categories.
Founder of Fourthzone an intimate ladies only well-being club in Jersey designed to strengthen the body, settle the mind and rebalance energy, Glenda is at the forefront of wellbeing and longevity.
As a practitioner herself, Glenda consults with SME’s to global Corporates on the planning, delivery and robust evaluation of wellbeing and resilience initiatives with the aim of driving impact, productivity and performance through data driven insights. Using behavioural change theory, brain science and habit change, Glenda and her team deliver a programme with big learnings. She also qualifies, and manages the integration of wellbeing coaches into the industry.
Glenda's expertise extends beyond her extensive experience, backed by a Doctorate where she studied the impact of mindfulness on resilience in entrepreneurs, an MSc in Sports Science and a 1st class honours degree in Physical Education. As a previous Vice Principal, Glenda’s continuous commitment to learning, results in her sessions being full of evidence-based concepts, wisdom and insights but with her light sense of humour thrown in for good measure.
When not working, Glenda loves a good book sprinkled with lots of travel.
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