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Inner Fitness for founders and leaders

Founder performance starts within.

Return to BASE helps founders and scaling leaders build the inner capacity to lead well, through growth, pressure and everything in between.

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THE TRUTH BEHIND PERFORMANCE

The business does not grow separately from the person building it.

A founder's internal state shapes performance, relationships and decision making. The business feels it.

Return to BASE strengthens the inner operating system behind leadership, decision making, communication and execution.

Founders build a stronger internal BASE for what growth demands.

Clearer decision making under pressure

Composure and confidence that holds through setbacks and high stakes moments

Sustainable energy across the demands of building

Stronger leadership presence as the team and business scale

Greater capacity for complexity without losing perspective

A deeper relationship with their own internal world, the base everything else is built on

Without a stronger internal BASE, founders often compensate with more effort. They can sub-consciously contribute to the business not growing to it's potential. 

They can also work longer. Control more. Recover less.

BUILT INTO EVERY PARTNERSHIP

of every corporate engagement funds youth work in the community.

12%

Twelve percent of every corporate engagement is directed into the Stronger Than You Think Project, supporting young children and their care givers to develop a strong BASE from a young age.

Investors backing a portfolio can partner directly with this side of the work too.

Ways to work with BASE

Support that grows with the stage you are at.

Come into BASE

A single session to experience inner fitness using the BASE framework live in the session. See what it feels like to work this way before you commit to anything more.

 

Go deep with BASE

A designed BASE programme, minimum three months, delivered one to one or as a group. For founders who want a designed programme and develop their BASE.

 

Stay in BASE

The ongoing retainer. Monthly support that keeps you returning to your base, for as long as you need it.

 

All in with BASE

Goes beyond the founder to the wider business. Workshops for the whole team, plus one to one founder coaching every month.

Jo Taylor
Founder of Return to BASE

  • MSc Applied Positive Psychology and Organisational Leadership Psychology

  • EMCC Coaching qualification 

  • Functional Breathwork certification (trauma informed)

  • 14 years across coaching, leadership and performance

  • More than 20,000 people supported across corporate, sport and youth sectors

  • Former GB age group triathlete

  • Founder of two businesses

  • Mum of two 

  • Champion and supporter of women in business 

Jo triathlon

Jo built Return to BASE as a result of living a life that BASE teaches you to grow beyond.

Years of high stress and unprocessed life events and pressure eventually caught up with her. She became so unwell that she lost the ability to walk, to talk, to function.

She was told she would not walk again, and that she would not be able to continue working.

She did not accept that as the end of the story.

She relearned how to walk. She relearned how to exercise. She rebuilt her health, her strength, and her sense of herself, one deliberate step at a time. She went on to qualify for Team GB in triathlon. She built not one but two thriving businesses. She is now raising two children - all things she was once told were not possible. 

Alongside the rebuilding, she went back to study, completing a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and Organisational Leadership Psychology, because she wanted to understand properly what had happened to her, and what had brought her back. That commitment to deepening her knowledge has never stopped, because the more she understands, the more deeply she can support the people who come to her now.

This is why Return to BASE exists. Jo knows, from the inside, what happens when a life is built without a strong internal BASE. She also knows, from the inside, what happens when you do.

"I am living proof of what I teach."

Build the internal capacity behind your next stage of growth.

For founders, scaling leaders and the investors backing them.

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