Strong Enough to Bend - Building Resilience Without Burning Out
Andrea Marsh
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: From £1000 + travel. Virtual available. Enquire for tailored quote.
- Category:
- Health
- Updated:
- 1st September 2026
- Tagged:
- Mental Health | Resilience | Burnout | High Performance
We often talk about resilience as the ability to keep going. Push through. Stay strong. Cope. Perform.
But real resilience isn’t about becoming better at tolerating more pressure. Sometimes the strongest thing we can do is recognise when something needs to change.
In Strong Enough to Bend, Andrea Marsh challenges the traditional idea of resilience and explores what it really takes to stay effective when pressure, responsibility and expectations keep building.
Drawing on professional coaching, lived experience and years of working with people navigating change and adversity, Andrea explores the difference between healthy resilience and simply surviving on empty.
This engaging and thought-provoking talk helps audiences recognise the warning signs of burnout, understand how pressure affects performance and develop a more sustainable approach to resilience.
Because strength isn’t about never bending. It’s knowing how to bend without breaking.
Key takeaways The difference between resilience and endurance Why high performers often miss their own warning signs Recognising when healthy pressure becomes damaging pressure Understanding the impact of stress on behaviour and performance Creating healthier boundaries without losing ambition Building resilience that is sustainable rather than reactive
Best for Corporate teams, NHS and healthcare staff, leaders, managers, business conferences, HR and wellbeing events, professional associations and organisations working in high-pressure environments.
Views: 15 | Enquiries: 0About Andrea Marsh
Andrea Marsh is a multi-award-winning Mental Health, Resilience and High Performance Speaker who helps audiences understand what may really be happening behind the behaviour they see.
Combining professional training with powerful lived experience as a parent, Andrea speaks with honesty about young people’s mental health, eating disorders, parental resilience, difficult conversations, workplace wellbeing and the human impact of pressure.
Her approach is not about labels, jargon or telling people to simply “be more resilient”. She helps audiences recognise what can sit beneath withdrawal, anxiety, changing behaviour, burnout and emotional struggle and gives them greater confidence to respond with understanding, connection and practical action.
Andrea works with schools, colleges, parents, healthcare professionals, NHS teams, businesses and organisations, adapting her talks to the challenges facing each audience.
Her speaking combines storytelling, practical insight, humour and vulnerability, creating sessions that are thought-provoking without becoming clinical or overwhelming.
Andrea is a qualified professional coach, holds Level 2 qualifications in Self-Harm Awareness & Suicide Prevention and Mental Health in the Workplace, is Enhanced DBS checked, and is the author of Silent Struggles: Beyond the Behaviour.
She has received multiple awards for her work, including Business Woman of the Year 2025 and Best High Performance Coach & Mental Wellbeing Speaker 2026.
Her message is simple: when we stop reacting only to what we can see and become curious about what is happening underneath, better conversations and real change become possible.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Andrea Marsh
- “Invisible Battles: Breaking the Silence Around Mental Health & Eating Disorders”
- “Holding On While Letting Go: A Parent’s Journey Through Mental Health & Eating Disorders”
- Behind the Behaviour: What Young People Are Really Trying to Tell Us
- When “I’m Fine” Isn’t Fine: Spotting the Signs Before Crisis
- The Parent Nobody - Sees Supporting Yourself While Your Child Is Struggling
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