Build Happy People.
Drive Business Results.
Positive Psychology training for organizations who want to invest into human capital to support resilience & performance through change.
A Mental & Emotional Resilience Initiative of The Positive Psychology Coach Academy®
Niyc Pidgeon MSc
Award-Winning Positive Psychologist | 3x Bestselling Author | TEDx Speaker | Suicide Prevention Spokesperson | Female Thought Leader of the Year 2025
The Leadership Burnout Reality
of leaders report burnout affects their performance
say pressure has increased significantly in the last 3 years
more likely to thrive with a daily regulation practice in place
The Opportunity
lost in productivity globally every year to depression & anxiety (WHO)
of employees report experiencing burnout in the past year (Censuswide)
drained from the global economy annually by disengagement & low wellbeing (Gallup)
Workplace mental health is no longer an HR nice-to-have. Burnout, disengagement, and fear of change in the era of AI are all draining performance and profit in organizations. Lack of action is costing money, talent, and in the most serious cases, lives.
Positive Psychology is proactive, evidence-based mental and emotional resilience training that gets ahead of the problem — building the psychological infrastructure most organizations have never put in place.
What Is Positive Psychology?
Positive Psychology: the science of happiness & success — how people, organizations, and communities thrive.
Strengths-based, focused on what goes right with people instead of what goes wrong.
Proactive
Builds internal capacity and capability before pressure hits.
Evidenced
Grounded in psychology science and proven to work.
Integrated
Transferable skills which compound over time.
Why Today's Workforce Is At Risk
The Always-On Culture
Constant connectivity, heavy workloads, and blurred boundaries push people past their capacity. Burnout becomes the norm, not the exception, and wellness interventions temporarily soothe but don't create measurable results.
Performance Under Pressure
High expectations, public targets, and visible accountability lead to chronic stress. The gap between the performance people project and how they actually feel goes unsaid.
The Silence Tax
Many cultures still reward toughness and quietly penalise vulnerability. Admitting struggle feels career-limiting, so people hide it — until it becomes a crisis.
Perpetual Change & Restructuring
Around 70% of change initiatives fail, largely due to human resistance and change fatigue. Restructures strip away routine, role, and security all at once.
Economic & Job Insecurity
The majority of workers say job insecurity significantly drives their stress. Financial pressure sits underneath much of the mental health strain in the workforce, and it's getting more acute in the era of AI.
Niyc Pidgeon
Survived a suicide attempt in childhood, lost three close friends who died by suicide, and rebuilt her life using the psychology science she now teaches. Resilience is not theory to her.
Invested 15 years coaching high performers, athletes, leaders, and teams — translating positive psychology into practical, repeatable tools for emotional regulation, resilience, and behaviour change that hold up under real-world pressure.
Channelled the science into the Positive Psychology Coach Academy framework and One More Day — the world's first positive psychology book for suicide prevention, now used as a resilience and wellbeing tool worldwide.
"She's a brilliant psychologist & entrepreneur."— Sir Richard Branson, Virgin
Professional Credentials
- MSc Applied Positive Psychology
- BSc Psychology with Sport Sciences
- CTLLS Teaching Qualification, Psychology
- 15+ years coaching & consulting leaders and teams
- Founder, Positive Psychology Coach Academy (PPCA)
- Founder, Game Changers Business Mastermind
- Extraordinary Ability Visa (USA), Speaking & Psychology
- "Female Thought Leader of the Year", Stevie Awards 2025
- Bestselling author: One More Day, Now Is Your Chance, Unstoppable Success
- TEDx Speaker: Finding Hope
- University lecturer: NYU, UEL, NAMI
- Expert TV & media on resilience: BBC, FoxTV, ABC, News12
- AFSP Spokesperson & Advocacy Partner, Washington DC Senate & California State Capitol
- Featured in Forbes, Money, Entrepreneur, Psychologies
- Experience across elite, high-performance organizations
- Executive coach to 9 & 10-figure founders & CEOs
- Media commentary: mental health, resilience & prevention
The Solution
"The Science of Happiness" Resilience & EQ Workshop
An in-person training workshop for employees, managers, and people teams. Built for the realities of your workplace. Typically 2–3 hours, in person.
PPCA Framework Deployment
Teach Niyc's results-focused PPCA® "PROMISE®" methodology in a 2–4 day immersion, or as an extended program delivered across 8 weeks, online or in person.
Additional Resource: One More Day — The Book
An award-winning, best-selling mental resilience book — getting the tools into the hands of people in a format they're familiar with.
Why Positive Psychology Is a Performance Strategy
- Lost productivity from burnout, presenteeism & absenteeism
- Costly turnover — nearly half of employees have left a job for mental-health reasons
- ~70% of change & transformation efforts fail, largely from human resistance & fatigue
- Rising duty-of-care, liability & insurance exposure
- Reputational and recruitment damage after high-profile incidents
- Deloitte: ~ÂŁ4.70 returned per ÂŁ1 invested in workplace mental health (up to ~ÂŁ6.30 for prevention-led programmes)
- Resilient, emotionally regulated teams perform better under pressure
- Higher retention and smoother change adoption — well-managed change is up to ~6x more likely to succeed
- Stronger engagement, culture, and employer brand
- A measurable, evidence-based wellbeing asset
Building Better Days At Work
Integrating The Science of Happiness for Workplace Wellness, Performance & Profitability.
Niyc Pidgeon
niycpidgeon.com/media-kit · [email protected] · +1 310 658 0024
A PPCA® INITIATIVE
