About Sadie

Science and scar tissue.

CEO of Wellity Global and Group CEO of Phoenix Horizon Group. Psychosocial risk expert and published researcher. Sixteen years of professional expertise, alongside a lived understanding of recovery, resilience and sustained performance.

Where wellbeing, leadership, culture and performance meet.

Sadie Restorick is the CEO of Wellity Global and a keynote speaker whose work sits at the intersection of wellbeing, leadership, culture and workplace performance. She holds an MSc with Distinction in Workplace Health and Wellbeing and has trained over 100,000 professionals across some of the world’s largest organisations.

Her research has been presented at the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. Her keynotes translate complex behavioural science into strategies leaders can apply immediately, shaped around each audience’s pressures and industry context.

As featured by

BBC NewsITVThe TelegraphThe GuardianPersonnel TodayCMIHR MagazineNatWest Business

MSc, DistinctionWorkplace Health and Wellbeing

Published scholarPeer-reviewed research on work stress

100,000+ trainedAcross major global organisations

27 countriesKeynotes and training delivered internationally

Published research What does a single-item measure of job stressfulness assess? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019. University of Nottingham. Published as Sadie Hopson. Read the paper (opens PubMed Central)

Cover of Unlocked: From Surviving to Thriving, curated by Sadie Restorick

Curated by Sadie Unlocked From Surviving to Thriving Ten acclaimed experts share their advice for adapting to life after a crisis. Published during the pandemic. Buy on Amazon

Awards

2026Finalist, Global Entrepreneur of the Year, Great British Entrepreneur Awards

2025Global Inspirational Woman of the Year

2024Great British Businesswoman of the Year

2024Great British Role Model of the Year

Sadie laughing at the podium of an awards ceremony

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Sadie’s story

The most extraordinary journeys begin in the darkest places.

Sadie survived years of severe domestic abuse as the highest-risk case in the UK. Afterwards, severe anxiety, agoraphobia and CPTSD meant there was a time she could not leave her home.

She rebuilt, one step at a time, into an award-winning Group CEO, published academic and international speaker. That journey is why her work never stops at the individual: she knows first-hand how much the environment around a person matters.

“Your story doesn’t become powerful when the pain ends. It becomes powerful when the pain finds purpose.”

The companies

Group CEOPhoenix Horizon GroupAn international organisation of specialist brands providing solutions for workforce health, safety and performance.Visit Phoenix Horizon Group

CEOWellity GlobalAn international workplace wellbeing and mental health training company.Visit Wellity Global

CEOSnowballA professional development community and support platform for trainers, coaches, L&D specialists and wellbeing professionals.Visit Snowball

Co-founderIAMHInternational Advocate for Mental Health: a globally inclusive workplace mental health and first-aid training programme.Visit IAMH

“We spend years waiting for permission to become who we already are.”

Sadie Restorick

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Short biography

Award-winning keynote speaker Sadie Restorick is both an academic expert in workplace wellbeing and psychosocial risk, and a powerful voice shaped by lived experience of trauma and recovery. A published academic author who has trained over 100,000 professionals worldwide, her journey from agoraphobia and CPTSD to global CEO challenges and inspires in equal measure. Blending scientific rigour with real-world insight, Sadie equips audiences with practical, evidence-led strategies to strengthen resilience, elevate leadership, and build healthier, high-performing workplace cultures.

Full biography

Sadie Restorick is a globally recognised keynote speaker, consultant, and CEO of Wellity Global. She has trained over 100,000 professionals worldwide and spent 16 years helping organisations strengthen leadership capability, workplace culture, and employee wellbeing.

Her work sits at the intersection of performance, mental health, and organisational responsibility, translating complex research into practical, commercially relevant strategies that leaders can implement immediately.

Alongside her professional expertise, Sadie brings a powerful lived perspective. After surviving severe domestic abuse as the highest risk case in the UK and experiencing CPTSD and agoraphobia that left her unable to leave her home, she rebuilt her life and career to become an award-winning global leader. This journey underpins her work, giving her insight not only into resilience, but into what it truly takes to recover, adapt, and perform under pressure.

Sadie holds an MSc with Distinction in Workplace Health and Wellbeing and has presented her research at international conferences, including the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. She is the recipient of Great British Businesswoman of the Year 2024 and Global Inspirational Woman of the Year 2025, and her work has been featured by BBC News, ITV, The Telegraph, and The Guardian.

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