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WALT Institute WALT Institute provides customised leadership coaching and training to empower women in Leadership. Less stress. More energy. Sustainable balance.

Rewiring self-doubt into unstoppable confidence through neuroscience, sport psychology & Authentic Leadership. Our mission is to enrich people’s ability to step into their personal power to be an Authentic Leader. At WALT Institute, we help ambitious leaders and elite athletes turn self-doubt into unstoppable confidence. Using neuroscience, sport psychology, and Authentic Leadership training, we e

mpower you to lead yourself first, and then inspire and influence others. Co-founded by Christine Burns & Dr Elizabeth Pritchard, we are on a mission to build a global community of Authentic Leaders who thrive with confidence, resilience, and integrity — in business, sport, and life.

🌍 Stronger results. That’s Authentic Leadership, the WALT way.

07/09/2026

You can know exactly what great leadership looks like and still struggle to access it when it matters most.

That’s where the real work begins.

In six weeks, we’re changing the patterns underneath how you lead so you can show up with greater confidence, clarity and choice, especially under pressure.

🎥 Watch the video and see what could change for you.

Own the Room. Own the Results.
Starts 12 October | Live online

EARLY BIRD EXTENDED to COB Friday 11 September
Save $200 with code AL200OFF

Find out more and register NOW.

You put your hand up for the role.Then spent three days talking yourself out of it.By the time applications closed, you ...
26/08/2026

You put your hand up for the role.
Then spent three days talking yourself out of it.

By the time applications closed, you had convinced yourself so thoroughly it almost felt like logic.

Six months later, someone else is in that role.
You are watching them figure out what you already knew.

Self-doubt does not announce itself.
It puts on a suit and calls itself common sense.

Own the Room, Own the Result starts 12 October.
Six weeks, live online.
EARLY BIRD closes 8 September at 10:10 am.

Link 👇👇👇

What is the opportunity you talked yourself out of?

I grew up the youngest of nine. Being heard felt impossible before I even got to the workplace.Then came the bullying. T...
18/08/2026

I grew up the youngest of nine. Being heard felt impossible before I even got to the workplace.

Then came the bullying. Then came things I carried for longer than I needed to.

At some point I had to choose. Lead from fear, or lead from truth.

I talked about all of it in a recent episode of The Uncommon Minds Experience. My real story, and what the shift from fear to Authentic Leadership actually looks like.

Link in the comments if you want a listen.

Avoiding a hard conversation doesn't make the problem smaller.It makes the story bigger.When people don't hear from thei...
17/07/2026

Avoiding a hard conversation doesn't make the problem smaller.
It makes the story bigger.

When people don't hear from their leader, they fill the silence themselves.

And the stories they tell are almost always worse than the truth.

This Monday 21 July, join me for a free 50-minute webinar where I'll share the real cost of avoided conversations and a practical framework for having them with more confidence and less fallout.

Free.
Live.
10:00am AEST.

17/07/2026

You know the conversation you've been putting off.

The one you've rehearsed in your head a dozen times.

The one that needs to happen, but somehow never does.

There's always a reason to wait. A better moment. A calmer week.But that conversation doesn't go away.

It just gets heavier.On Tuesday 21 July I'm running a free live webinar: The Silent Cost of Avoided Conversations...

and we're going to talk about what that avoidance is actually costing your team.

If this is happening in your workplace, this one's for you.

Preparing for 24 hours Stream-a-thon of hope with Elena Rodriguez at 4;30 AEST TODAY - Sunday✨ The countdown is over......
12/07/2026

Preparing for 24 hours Stream-a-thon of hope with Elena Rodriguez at 4;30 AEST TODAY - Sunday

✨ The countdown is over...

The **5th Annual Christmas in July 24-Hour LIVE Stream-a-thon** is here, and I couldn't be more excited to share it with you.

This year's event is about something bigger than a livestream. It's about bringing hope, sharing powerful stories, supporting one another, and helping us prepare to make Christmas brighter for children and families in our community.

💜 During **SEGMENT 3: A WORLD OF HOPE**, you'll hear from:

• Jaime McCormick
• Tisch McDaniel
• Raul Marin
• Jada Mitchell- Tucker
• Spencer Fothergill
• Alia Badreldin
• Lara Khouri
• Natasha Bazilevych
• Elizabeth Pritchard
• Rajeev Daswani

Every conversation has been chosen to encourage, inspire, and remind us that hope is still alive.

A heartfelt thank you to our incredible sponsors who made this year's Stream-a-thon possible:

✨ Next, Together™
✨ Havanas 13
✨ Praxis 33
✨ Connected Leaders Academy
✨ UnleashU Now
✨ Ready Writer Services LLC
✨ BREATHE Capital Planning & Divine Abundance Streaming Television Show
✨ Follow Your Dreams Athletics
✨ Welcome to Humanity™
✨ On the Path NY & Peace, Love, and Bring the Bat Podcast
✨ Besitos Beauty
✨ Texas Heart Collection
✨ Show Your Crown Enterprises, LLC

❤️ If these messages resonate with you, I'd love for you to stay connected by following my page and subscribing to my YouTube channel so you won't miss future conversations.

📺 I'll drop all the viewing links in the comments below, so be sure to save this post and share it with someone who could use a little extra hope.

Let's make our biggest Christmas in July yet. ❤️🎄

With so much love and gratitude,
XoXo,
Elena Rodriguez👑
& to all the speakers, check your email 😊

Are you postponing an important conversation? If you're waiting for the "right time" to address performance, mood, or mi...
10/07/2026

Are you postponing an important conversation?

If you're waiting for the "right time" to address performance, mood, or mistakes, remember that the moment you feel that niggle is the perfect time to engage in that awkward conversation.

Don't wait until tomorrow or someday. Take action now.

For insights on how to approach these discussions, consider joining our upcoming free event. 👇

I once received a 360 deg review I was completely unprepared for.Nobody told me how to give feedback. Nobody told me how...
14/06/2026

I once received a 360 deg review I was completely unprepared for.

Nobody told me how to give feedback.
Nobody told me how to receive it.

I took it personally.
Lost sleep.
Kept replaying the conversation at 2am, at 5am, in the shower, in the car.

My amygdala was running the show.
Full survival mode.
And I had no idea that was even happening.

The work I did after that changed everything.
I learned to notice the signals before the reaction hit.
Built the pause.
Started responding from choice.

Feedback is not an annual event.
It is a living practice. And when people know how to give it and receive it, everything changes.

Psychological safety exists when leadership is authentic and proactive.

Some weeks are just hard.Not dramatic. Just heavy in a way that is hard to explain to anyone who is not inside it with y...
11/06/2026

Some weeks are just hard.

Not dramatic. Just heavy in a way that is hard to explain to anyone who is not inside it with you.

You are still showing up.
Still delivering.
Still doing the thing.
And underneath all of that, something is sitting there, waiting for you to acknowledge it.

Here is what I learned.
Calling it 'as is' makes it workable.

When you name what you are feeling, clearly and honestly, your nervous system settles.
The brain stops burning energy on suppression and starts moving toward response.

BE DO HAVE starts with being. And sometimes BEing means sitting with what is real before you decide what to do next.

Call it 'as is'. That is where the next move comes from.

A few weeks ago I was supporting someone through a really difficult moment.The whole time, I was carrying something diff...
28/05/2026

A few weeks ago I was supporting someone through a really difficult moment.
The whole time, I was carrying something difficult of my own.

It was not pretending everything was fine.
It was regulation.

University of Oxford researchers studied around 1,800 British Telecom workers and found happier employees were 12% more productive.
Not slightly. Measurably, consistently, 12% more.

Wellbeing is not a nice to have. It is a performance strategy.

And the single biggest variable is whether the leaders around your people are living it or performing it.

Your people do not need a leader who is unaffected.
They need one who is equipped.

There is a significant difference.



"Your people do not need a leader who is unaffected. They need one who is equipped." - Dr Elizabeth Pritchard

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