About The Resilient Manager
The Resilient Manager creates affordable, ready-to-deliver workplace training materials that help trainers, HR professionals, managers, and consultants deliver practical learning experiences without developing complete courses from scratch.
Our current training programmes focus on workplace resilience, managing change, adapting to uncertainty, and helping individuals and teams respond more effectively to everyday workplace challenges.
We believe professional training materials should be practical, accessible, easy to customise, and ready to use.
Whether you are delivering a team workshop, developing an employee training programme, or strengthening your own professional skills, our resources provide a structured starting point.
What We Do
We develop editable workplace training toolkits, facilitator resources, participant workbooks, and self-study programmes for professionals who want practical, structured learning materials.
Our Trainer Editions are designed to help you prepare and deliver workshops using complete training resources rather than assembling presentations, activities, and learning materials from different sources.
Depending on the programme, our training toolkits include:
- Facilitator Guides: Structured guidance for preparing and delivering training sessions.
- PowerPoint Presentations: Editable slides that support workshop delivery.
- Participant Workbooks: Practical learning materials, exercises, and reflection activities.
- Workplace Activities: Interactive exercises, case studies, and discussion scenarios.
- Action-Planning Resources: Tools that help participants apply their learning.
- Customisable Materials: Editable files that trainers can adapt to their organisations, audiences, and delivery requirements.
Our aim is simple: make it easier and more affordable to deliver useful workplace training.
Our Trainer Editions are licensed for delivering training internally or to external clients, subject to the relevant product licence. Our Self-Study Courses are designed for individual learning.
Meet Catherine Fitzgerald
I’m Catherine Fitzgerald, founder of The Resilient Manager and co-founder of Oak Innovation.
My professional background combines health promotion, workplace wellbeing, research, course development, training design, and trauma-informed learning.
I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Studies and a Master’s Degree in Health Promotion from University College Cork.
I also hold qualifications in Training and Development from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a Diploma in Trauma Studies from University College Cork.
My research interests include workplace wellbeing, corporate wellness, resilience, and trauma.
Through my work in training and education, I have developed a strong interest in translating research and established learning principles into resources that people can use in real workplace situations.
I believe good training should do more than explain a concept. It should give people opportunities to reflect, practise, discuss, and apply what they learn.
Why I Created The Resilient Manager
The origins of The Resilient Manager are both professional and personal.
A few years ago, my life changed suddenly when my husband became seriously ill and required open-heart surgery. He later became a candidate for a heart transplant and was no longer able to work.
Almost overnight, I became a full-time carer while also taking on the leadership of Oak Innovation, a business I had never expected to run.
I experienced first-hand the challenges of managing responsibility, uncertainty, pressure, and significant personal and professional change.
Later, following an unexpected and deeply difficult personal experience, I became increasingly interested in how people respond to adversity, stress, trauma, and change.
One question stayed with me:
Why are people so often told to be resilient without being given practical tools to help them navigate difficult circumstances?
That question helped shape The Resilient Manager.
I wanted to develop resources that make resilience and workplace learning more practical, structured, and accessible.
Today, that commitment extends to helping trainers, managers, and organisations deliver meaningful learning experiences around resilience, workplace change, and professional development.
Training Materials Designed for Real Workplace Challenges
Workplaces continually face challenges involving pressure, uncertainty, organisational change, communication, and team effectiveness.
Managers are expected to guide their teams through difficult situations. HR and L&D professionals need practical resources to support employee development. Trainers and consultants need structured materials they can adapt for different audiences.
Our programmes are designed to support these needs through practical, facilitated learning.
Our current resources include:
- Team Resilience Training Toolkit: Editable workshop materials that help teams explore resilience, navigate change, and strengthen how they work together.
- Employee Resilience Training Toolkit: A structured training programme focused on managing workplace pressure, understanding change, and developing practical resilience skills.
- Workplace Resilience Self-Study Course: Independent learning resources for professionals who want to develop resilience skills at their own pace.
We aim to make these resources accessible to independent trainers, HR and L&D teams, consultants, and individuals who need practical materials without a large training development budget.
Explore Our Workplace Training Programmes
Our Approach to Training and Learning
We believe effective workplace training should be evidence-informed, practical, adaptable, and focused on real-world application.
Our approach brings together relevant research, health-promotion principles, structured learning design, and practical training methods.
Where appropriate, our resources include facilitated discussion, workplace scenarios, individual reflection, interactive activities, and action planning.
We also recognise that resilience is not simply an individual responsibility.
How people respond to workplace challenges is influenced by leadership, organisational culture, relationships, available support, working conditions, and personal circumstances.
That is why our approach goes beyond telling people to cope better or simply work harder.
We aim to provide resources that encourage thoughtful discussion, practical skill development, and more constructive responses to workplace challenges.
Our Commitment
The Resilient Manager is built around four principles:
- Practicality: Training resources should help people apply ideas, not simply understand theories.
- Accessibility: Professional learning materials should be affordable and straightforward to use.
- Flexibility: Trainers should be able to adapt materials to different audiences, organisations, and delivery settings.
- Responsible Learning: Workplace resilience and wellbeing should be approached thoughtfully, recognising both individual and organisational factors.
Our goal is to make useful workplace training easier to prepare, deliver, and apply.
Based in Ireland. Supporting Customers Worldwide.
The Resilient Manager is based in Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland.
Our digital training resources are available to customers internationally, allowing trainers, organisations, and individuals to access materials wherever they work.
Whether you are preparing your next workshop, supporting employees through change, developing team resilience, or strengthening your own professional skills, we want to help you start with practical resources you can use.
Explore our ready-to-deliver training materials and discover a more accessible way to support workplace learning.
With warmth,
Catherine Fitzgerald
Founder, The Resilient Manager