We believe the cost of leadership should never be your health, your family, or your future. The leaders who create the deepest impact are those who lead from vitality — not depletion.
Founded by Elizabeth Hughes, architect of the *Leadership Longevity Blueprint™, our work is grounded in more than three decades of executive coaching, senior leadership, boardroom practice, and entrepreneurial experience across Australia and Canada. Elizabeth has built high‑performing teams, led nationally recognised diversity and sustainability programs, and partnered with boards, CEOs, and Tier‑1 organisations to embed renewal into the fabric of leadership culture.
What sets us apart is our regenerative approach. We don’t just coach for performance; we help leaders rewire the way they lead, live, and leave impact behind. Drawing on coaching psychology, neuroscience, systems thinking, and ecological principles, the Blueprint equips leaders to:
– Lead with vitality— protecting energy as fiercely as time
– Innovate with intent — aligning decisions to long‑term impact
– Shape legacy— embedding influence that endures across generations
Our style is engaging, authentic, and pragmatic. Whether through intensives, strategic arcs, or longer engagements, we create environments where leaders and teams can build awareness of their rhythm, expand capacity, and navigate complexity with clarity and courage.
Imagine a world where leaders wake up energised, knowing their work shapes a legacy. Where resilience, adaptability, and wisdom fuel innovation, mentorship, and a life that thrives beyond the boardroom. That’s the world we’re building — one leader, one organisation, one rhythm at a time.
We believe leadership should liberate, not deplete.
Our work is guided by six values that dismantle outdated myths of endurance, authority, and succession—reframing longevity as intentional design.
We honour lived experience.
We honour relationships.
We honour culture.
Mindfulness anchors this presence.
Courage gives it strength.
Generosity gives it reach.
Together, they enable leaders to connect with clarity, authenticity, and confidence.
Leadership begins with mindful presence—anchored in courage, generosity, and authentic connection.
Vitality is not optional.
Resilience is not a side note.
Health is the foundation.
It sustains influence across every stage of leadership.
It ensures leaders don’t just perform—
they endure, expand, and deliver lasting impact.
Health is the foundation of leadership—sustaining vitality, resilience, and enduring influence.
Compassion is not soft.
It is strength.
We listen deeply.
We respond wisely.
We create cultures where safety and resilience are built into the system.
Compassion aligns purpose with practice.
It strengthens teams and enterprises.
Compassion is not soft—it is strength that builds safety, trust, and resilient cultures.
Rhythm restores clarity.
Rhythm restores flow.
It frees leaders from outdated patterns.
It opens space for curiosity, innovation, and renewal.
Rhythm is the discipline of agility.
Rhythm is the discipline of long‑term success.
Rhythm restores clarity and flow—discipline that frees leaders to adapt, innovate, and renew.
Legacy is not a future idea.
It is lived daily—
through systems, through stories, through relationships.
Legacy strengthens culture.
Legacy drives continuity.
Legacy ensures impact resonates across eco-systems.
Legacy is lived daily—through systems, stories, and relationships that strengthen culture, continuity, and ecosystems.
Leadership is stewardship.
We improve life for every stakeholder—
employees, customers, communities, shareholders.
We extend impact to future generations.
We extend impact to the planet itself.
Stewardship is responsibility made real,
woven into decisions, actions, and outcomes.
Leadership is stewardship—improving life for every stakeholder and extending impact to future generations.
Founder | Executive Coach | Architect of The Leadership Longevity Blueprint
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Elizabeth Hughes is the architect of a new standard in executive leadership. As founder of The Mindful Executive and creator of the Leadership Longevity Blueprint™, she partners with senior leaders to restore rhythm, extend health, and embed legacy into the lived experience of leadership. Her approach is evidence‑based, rhythm‑driven, and designed for measurable impact — grounded in more than three decades of executive coaching, senior leadership, boardroom practice, and entrepreneurial experience across Australia and Canada, and strengthened by advanced study in business, psychology, coaching practice, human resource management, and sustainability. Trusted by CEOs navigating complexity, recalibration, and reinvention, she doesn’t just coach leaders — she helps them rewire the way they lead, live, and leave impact behind. Elizabeth is recognised for dismantling survival myths and embedding renewal as infrastructure, guiding leaders beyond resilience into regenerative influence that endures across generations.
Master of Human Resource Management – Charles Sturt University
Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management & Public Relations) – University of Southern Queensland
Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies) – Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education
Business Sustainability Management – University of Cambridge
Australian Institute of Company Directors Course – AICD
Organisational Coaching Levels 1 & 2 – Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership & Progress U (ICF PCC Level)
Certificate in Executive Coaching & Advanced Executive Coaching – Institute of Coaching and Consulting Psychology
Executive Coach Training in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy & Functional Analysis Psychology
Executive Search Partner | Architect of Leadership Appointments
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Greg Byrne brings more than 25 years of Executive Search experience, partnering with organisations across infrastructure, engineering, supply chain, construction, resources, and energy. Qualified as a chemical engineer and holding an MBA, he began his career researching ways to reduce the environmental impact of coal combustion before progressing through technical and leadership roles with major engineering contractors. Today, he applies both scientific rigour and strategic insight to leadership appointments, helping organisations meet stakeholder expectations while shaping teams that reflect diversity, renewal, and transformation.
Based in Brisbane, Greg is deeply connected across national and international networks, enabling him to source outstanding candidates for every assignment. With family at his centre, he brings balance and perspective to his work, while his passions for rugby, cycling, yoga, and hiking reflect the energy, discipline, and commitment to renewal that guide his professional life.
Leadership is not just a role—it’s a rhythm, a responsibility, and a legacy in motion.
Yet too often, the cost of leadership is paid in health, clarity, and connection. Burnout becomes normalized. Vitality becomes optional. Legacy becomes an afterthought.
We believe that must change.
The Leadership Longevity Blueprint exists because high performance should not come at the expense of health, relationships, or long-term impact. It’s designed for leaders who carry weighty decisions, shape culture, and steward futures—leaders who need more than resilience. They need rhythm. Renewal. A system that supports them across every stage of their leadership arc.
This work matters because the ripple effect of executive depletion is systemic.
And so is the impact of regenerative leadership.
Running on fumes erodes clarity, accelerates burnout, and leaves legacies unfulfilled.
The Blueprint exists to replace survival myths with regenerative rhythms that sustain health, influence, and legacy daily.
When CEOs lead from vitality, they don’t just perform better.
They build cultures that breathe. Teams that thrive. Legacies that last.
This is our manifesto: leadership that liberates, restores, and endures. Leadership that resonates across generations and leaves the world better because we are in it.
