Discover How You Lead Under Pressure
A free, neuroscience-based leadership assessment designed to help you understand - and optimize - how you perform when the stakes are high.
Developed by Executive Resilience Coach & Therapist Rae Francis - grounded in neuroscience and leadership psychology.What You’ll Get:
The Strategic Mental Fitness Assessment (Lite) is a free, accessible version of our full leadership assessment - built for busy leaders who want insight without additional pressure. In just a few minutes you’ll:
Discover your dominant stress signature - your instinctive response under pressure
Identify your greatest performance strength in high-stakes situations.
Uncover where stress silently erodes clarity, connection, or resilience.
Gain self-aware insight that enables you to lead more sustainably, not just more intensely.
The Science Behind It:
Grounded in neuroscience, emotional intelligence and leadership psychology, the assessment measures how you respond under pressure across four performance domains:
Cognitive Load - how your brain prioritizes when everything is on the line
Emotional Regulation - how steady you remain when the emotional stakes rise
Decision Efficiency - how effectively you evaluate and act under constraints
Relational Awareness - how pressure impacts your connection, influence, and empathy
These four dimensions form your unique Leadership Stress Signature - your performance fingerprint when the going gets tough.
Why this matters:
You’ve got the drive. You’ve got the ambition. What you don’t need is another leadership theory collecting dust. You need a system that helps you lead under pressure - with clarity, emotional intelligence and sustainable impact (not burnout).
Whether you’re:
A seasoned Director or Senior Director ready to strengthen your presence
A VP managing broader systems and teams under relentless change
A founder or executive aiming to build leadership resilience across your org
It all begins with understanding how you show up when the tone gets urgent.
Why Leaders Trust This Methodology:
Built from 16 years of clinical practice + 18 years of leadership experience
Grounded in neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and practical business strategy
Designed for leaders who want to optimize pressure (not avoid it)
Trusted by executives, founders, and leadership teams who need sustainable performance
“Stress doesn’t define your leadership - it reveals where you’re ready to grow.”How this works:
The Lite assessment is just the start - the first step in the broader Strategic Mental Fitness Methodology™.
Here’s the simple progression:
Take the free assessment (Lite) → get your signature insight
Book your strategy session → talk through your insights, your context, your next-step priorities
Choose your path → self-paced foundation, 1:1 intensives, or high-touch concierge support
The assessment doesn’t replace the full program - it introduces you to the system, makes it accessible, and helps you decide how much deeper you want to go.
Meet Rae Francis
I’m not just another leadership coach - I’ve lived both sides of pressure. As an Executive Resilience Coach, therapist and former leader managing teams, revenue and rapid change for 18 years, I’ve seen how even brilliant leaders can stall under pressure when they don’t understand their internal architecture.
My work with the Strategic Mental Fitness Methodology helps you build not just capacity, but capability; not just resilience, but influence; not just presence, but sustainable power.
Next Step: Once you’ve discovered your Leadership Stress Signature, let’s talk about how to apply it to your leadership role.