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 This Assessment Reveals:
Your Leadership Stress Signature shows how your brain and body react when performance pressure builds - and what that means for your leadership style.
This isn’t about labeling you. It’s about helping you understand your stress pattern so you can build awareness, communicate clearly, and stay grounded when it matters most.
Discover your dominant stress signature - your instinctive response under pressure
Identify your greatest performance strength
Learn where stress quietly undermines clarity or connection
Get a personalized insight to start leading more sustainably
The Science Behind It:
Grounded in neuroscience and psychology, the Leadership Stress Signature measures how leaders process pressure across four domains:
Cognitive Load – how your brain prioritizes under stress
Emotional Regulation – your ability to stay steady when emotions rise
Decision Efficiency – how you evaluate and act under constraints
Relational Awareness – how pressure impacts communication and empathy
These four factors form your unique performance fingerprint - what we call your Leadership Stress Signature™.
From Awareness to Action:
The Lite (Free) Assessment gives you insight.
Our Strategic Mental Fitness Programs help you integrate it - transforming awareness into sustainable leadership.
Explore self-paced, high-impact, and organizational experiences designed for leaders who want to perform at a high level without sacrificing mental health or clarity.
Discover how to manage pressure, build emotional endurance, and lead with grounded resilience.Why Leaders Trust This Methodology:
Built from 16+ years of clinical practice and executive leadership
Grounded in neuroscience and emotional intelligence
Designed to help leaders optimize pressure - not avoid it
Trusted by executives, founders, and high-performing teams worldwide
“Stress doesn’t define your leadership - it reveals where you’re ready to grow.”
Meet Rae Francis
II’m not just another leadership coach - I’ve lived both sides of pressure.
For over 18 years, I’ve worked in high-stakes leadership roles - building teams, driving revenue, and navigating the emotional realities of performance at the top.
And for 16 years as a therapist and Executive Resilience Coach, I’ve helped leaders understand how their minds and bodies respond to stress - so they can lead sustainably, not reactively.
Through my Strategic Mental Fitness Methodology, I combine neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and practical strategy to help Directors, Senior Directors, and VPs expand their capacity without burning out.
I created the Leadership Stress Signature Assessment after watching brilliant leaders undermine themselves under pressure. When you understand your unique stress signature, you can sharpen your strengths, neutralize blind spots, and lead with clarity and confidence.
Next Step: Once you’ve discovered your Leadership Stress Signature, let’s talk about how to apply it to your leadership role.