Nic, Founder and CEO of Inspire - Rewire (FCIPD, PsyMsc)

nic wagstaff

TOPICS - • Boundaries• Burnout • Conflict Resolution

• Emotional Intelligence • Leadership Development

• Psychology • Resilience • Self-Awareness

• Stress Management • Team Dynamics

nic wagstaff - PROGRAMS

  • The Power of the Pause
  • The Psychology of Burnout: What Leaders Get Wrong
  • Role Modelling: How leaders Shape the Nervous System of a Team
  • From Tension to Transformation: maximizing different team personalities 
  • The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back: the hidden build-up behind burnout

"You have changed my life!"

— Head of Curriculum Design, Coleg Cambria College - Full Conflict Resolution Package


"I worked with Nic for 3 years, as colleagues in the HR Department during her time with us at Chalhoub Group. I first met Nic when she joined as the Global Group Head of Learning and Development, responsible for the learning needs of the Group, for both back-of-house development and frontliner training. Nic is a passionate educator and is skilled in developing learning strategies and employee engagement. In her time with the Group, she led the department through immense changes and oversaw the implementation of our internal coaching/mentoring programme, which is still going strong today. What I really like about Nic is her amicable personality, soft approach, passion for wellbeing and always keeping people at heart."

-Wassim Eid President of People and Culture Chalhoub Group 


"If you are seeking a trainer who can truly inspire and equip individuals with the mindset tools for success, I wholeheartedly encourage you to embrace Nic's expertise. We look forward to our continued work with inspire-Rewire/Nic over the coming academic year.”

-Jack Mittell, Learning & Development Specialist, Coleg Cambria


"This is exactly what we needed as a team to reconnect and clear out any of the underlying issues in order to pull together and support each other."

— Consultant, The Literacy Company


“Over this last academic year we have worked closely with Inspire - Rewire and the lovely Nic Wagstaff (MCIPD, BSc MSc Hons). The impact Nic has had on the personal growth and development of numerous departments/individuals within the college has been truly brilliant."

"Nic possesses the ability to create an engaging and transformative environment. Her passion and enthusiasm for instilling a positive mindset was infectious, sparking an immediate sense of inspiration and motivation within many of our colleagues at the college. This was evident from the feedback many of our colleagues provided after attending Nics sessions."

"Nic demonstrated a deep understanding of mindset psychology. Her training sessions were well-structured, balanced, and expertly designed to foster meaningful introspection, self-reflection, and personal growth."

"Nic challenged colleagues to embrace new perspectives, overcome limiting beliefs, and unlock their true capabilities. She created a safe space for vulnerability and personal breakthroughs.

"Her exceptional communication skills, combined with her warm and approachable demeanor, allowed her to connect with diverse audiences effortlessly. She tailored training to meet the unique needs and aspirations of each area she worked with."

"Nics expertise extended beyond the training room. She provided invaluable tools, resources and advice/ongoing support to help us reinforce the learning from her training with teams."

nic wagstaff - Biography

Leadership and Team Success - without Burnout


A CIPD Fellow with a Master’s in Psychology, Nic’s research centred on leadership burnout, an experience she has personally overcome and explored in her TEDx talk, The Power of the Pause. Nic founded Inspire - Rewire in 2015, to support others with burnout prevention and recovery and retrained in various modalities such as hypnotherapy, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and Yoga. 


Nic Wagstaff is a leadership, L&D and wellbeing expert with two decades in Learning and Development. As Group Head of L&D for a global company, she spearheaded major transformation initiatives - most notably the shift toward a coaching culture and now specialises in group sessions; keynote, retreats, workshops.


Nic has delivered 90+ retreats across the UAE and Europe, supporting leaders at every level to build psychologically safe, high‑performance cultures through self‑leadership and nervous‑system‑aware development and psychologically safe environments for sustainable futures.


Nic has learned the hard way: if we don’t pause, our body will make us. She has been sharing this message with large global corporations through conferences, away-days, retreats, and by facilitating intimate conversations with groups of CEO's. As well as working with new leaders and smaller organizations who are part of shaping the culture of a new wave of leadership.


Nic asks a question that often helps when things feel overwhelming - to reset priorities. Next time everything feels urgent, ask:


“Is this urgent — or is it just loud?”


Burnout often comes from responding to noise, not from leading what truly matters.


She believe you can be, successful, without burnout - if you rewire how you think about resilience by balancing the push with the pause.


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Nic's Book is Coming Soon...

Synopsis



Nic’s upcoming book distils a decade of personal healing, global study, and psychological research into a practical, human guide for rebuilding from the inside out. Blending memoir with tools drawn from Eastern philosophy, somatic practice, trauma science, and leadership research, she helps readers create what most people never realise they need: their own personalised instruction manual.


Through grounded stories, case studies, and simple frameworks, Nic teaches people to understand their nervous system, recognise their patterns, and build rituals and boundaries that actually work for them. Her work supports a shift from overwhelm to clarity, from self‑abandonment to self‑leadership, and from survival mode to a life that feels steady, meaningful, and authored from within.


This is a compassionate, rigorous, and deeply relatable guide for anyone who has ever felt burnt out, disconnected, or unsure how to navigate being human.