Speaking & Media
What happens when the strengths that helped someone succeed begin to cost them? Penny Cook speaks about The Success Dilemma, leadership under sustained pressure, and the relationship between achievement and identity.
For audiences of senior leaders, founders and people carrying significant responsibility.
Explore how discipline can become rigidity, resilience can become apathy, and self-sacrifice can leave little room for someone’s own priorities. Penny helps audiences recognise when a familiar strength has become an automatic response.
Example host question
What is an everyday sign that a strength has stopped feeling like a choice?
For founders and leaders who feel responsible for keeping everything moving. Explore the habits that draw decisions back to the same person and the practical questions that can help them reconsider what they carry.
Example host question
What would you ask a founder who says it is quicker to do everything herself?
Drawing on her experience of leaving full-time trampoline training, Penny explores identity beyond achievement and how people begin to recognise what matters outside a demanding role.
Example host question
What did leaving sport reveal about yourself that training couldn’t?
Have a different angle in mind? Tell me about your audience and the conversation you would like to create.
A short introduction and resources to help you prepare for a conversation with Penny.
Penny Cook is a coach and consultant who works privately with senior leaders and founders under sustained pressure. Drawing on her background in full-time trampoline training and her study of psychology and behaviour, she developed The Success Dilemma, a framework for understanding when the strengths behind achievement begin to cost a leader.
Tell me about your audience, the topic you would like to explore and your preferred timing. I’ll review the details and get back to you by email.
