Go Slow to Go Fast® — Leadership and team development that holds under pressure
For organisations in growth, complexity and change

Go Slow to Go Fast

For multi-award-winning team coaching, resilience training and experiential leadership programmes.

Built on doctoral research and over twenty years of leading teams, departments and companies.

Nick Wright and Hannah Alexander-Wright walking with their dog
Multi-award-winning
HR Brilliance Awards 2026 — Gold, HR Consultancy of the Year Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award — Gold, Learning and Development 2025 CIPD People Management Awards — Shortlisted
What we do

Four ways we work with you.

We work at every level, from the individual to the whole organisation. Each piece of work is shaped around what you actually need, and all of it is built on the same underlying practice. Whether you need to support your people, coach a team, develop your next leaders, or think alongside someone who has done the job, there is a way in below.

Our approach

Our name is our methodology.

Everything we do is built on a simple idea. We slow leaders and teams down on purpose, not because slow is the goal, but because the pause is where the real work happens.

The four steps below are how we move people from autopilot into intentional action. The three frameworks underneath them are what we leave behind, so that the change holds long after our programme has ended.

Nick and Hannah working together at a desk
Step 01

Pause

We interrupt autopilot, through coaching, workshops or structured reflection, whatever the situation calls for.

Step 02

Disrupt

We surface what is really going on, including the behaviours, processes and assumptions that people sense but do not always say out loud.

Step 03

Realign

We re-purpose the individual, team or organisation around what matters now, so that priorities are clear, ownership is named, and decisions actually stick.

Step 04

Sustain

We embed habits that the team owns, so the change holds long after we are gone and you are never left dependent on us.

Three frameworks, all built on doctoral research:
Kind Resilience® for individuals
Micro-Pause® for teams
The 4Cs for organisations
The evidence

We are multi-award-winning, backed by research, and shaped by twenty years of doing the work ourselves.

28
Countries reached through our largest change programme
2,000+
Leaders and managers we've worked with directly
2
Doctorates in progress, underpinning our frameworks
4
Industry awards and shortlistings, including Brandon Hall Gold
A few of the organisations we've worked with
BCG· Valvoline· Immediate Media· Commusoft· Arena Media· Havas· BABLE Smart Cities· Not On The High Street· UAL
What clients say

Built for what is actually happening in your organisation.

A true trusted partner in every way. Their depth of experience in organisational culture, change, leadership and team dynamics means they raise the bar every time we work together.

David Reay
Chief People Officer, immediate Media

We have made significant progress in having a less stressed, more productive team. For me, this is our competitive advantage.

Jacqueline
Central Europe HR Director, Global Strategy Consultancy

I have truly felt most myself when working with the GSTGF team. A real testament to the power of what they have created.

Natalie
Global Talent Management, Valvoline Global Operations

Our team leads have gained great leadership insights and have been able to put all their pragmatic learnings into practice with their team.

Grace
Chief People Officer, BABLE Smart Cities
Who we are

Practitioners first, researchers second.

Nick and Hannah are supported by a studio of trusted colleagues and collaborators. Our doctoral research informs our practice, making sure you get learning experiences that are grounded in evidence, and tested in the real world.

Nick Wright, Founder and Co-Director
Nick Wright
Founder & Co-Director

Twenty-five years leading commercial teams and businesses, from scaling start-ups to global functions.

Nick's doctoral research focuses on Micro-Pause®: how teams interrupt unhelpful patterns under pressure, and rebuild performance without burning people out.

Hannah Alexander-Wright, Co-Director, Research and Communications
Hannah Alexander-Wright
Co-Director, Research & Communications

Leadership coach and doctoral researcher. Hannah created Kind Resilience® through three and a half years of research across spiritual traditions, coaching, grief counselling and contemplative practice.

She coaches leaders across global strategy consultancies, media groups and scale-up businesses.

Read more

The Micro-Pause on Substack

Hannah and Nick write regularly on resilience, team practice and leadership under pressure.

Read the Substack
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Whether you're a leader carrying a lot, a team that needs to reset, or an organisation rolling out something big, let's start with a conversation.

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