It's not a book about learning leadership, because you already know that. It's about reconnecting with the leader you already are, underneath the person you feel like you’ve been performing for so long you've almost forgotten it's a performance at all.
Leadership is exhausting, but we keep going, because that's what we've always done - but the cost on you is too much to ignore.
However, there is another way and this book will help you understand what's happening and how you can change this.
'Exhausted, Not Broken' is for the senior leader who looks capable on the outside but no longer feels like this on the inside.
If you're carrying the weight of a demanding role, second-guessing every decision, and wondering how much longer you can keep going, this book will help you understand why success has started to feel so hard, and what to do next.
Written by Niki Corbishley, an Executive and Leadership Coach with over 15 years in senior HR leadership, this book brings together lived experience, coaching insight, and neuroscience-informed tools to help you move from self-doubt to self-belief. It speaks directly to the leaders who are trusted by others but no longer trust themselves. The leaders who are praised for their performance while privately battling anxiety, perfectionism, and burnout.
Through a clear six-phase journey, using Niki's own NooWay® methodology, this book helps you uncover where confidence was lost, reclaim your authority, and rebuild self-trust from the inside out. It is not about becoming someone else, it's about reclaiming who you already are.
Niki understands the pressure of high-visibility leadership and the hidden cost of holding it all together externally, whilst questioning her capability and value. She also knows that you are not broken, and you are not to blame. You have simply been trying to survive in a system that rewarded over-functioning and created self-erasure. This book offers a grounded, achievable way forward.
If you're a senior leader who feels the gap between external success and internal exhaustion, 'Exhausted, Not Broken' will help you feel seen, understood, and supported. It will show you how to lead with calm authority, make decisions with greater trust, and create a version of success that doesn’t cost you everything else.
This is a book for leaders who are ready to stop performing and start leading in a way that feels true to who they are. If you want to feel confident, energised, and aligned again, pre-register now and be first to receive the book that could change the way you lead and the way you feel about yourself and work.
Hi, I'm Niki, an executive and leadership qualified coach, and HR professional, with more than 15 years in senior leadership. I work with senior leaders who look successful on paper but feel exhausted, self-doubting, and close to burnout.
Noo Coaching began after I reached burnout, at a point where I knew I couldn’t keep working in a way that left me feeling as if I wasn’t good enough.
Stepping away from my career wasn’t planned, but it gave me the space I desperately needed. Through that space I discovered something important - when I worked in a way that aligned with my strengths, supported my energy and reflected who I am now, not who I thought I had to be, everything changed. I became more confident, more energised and more fulfilled than I’d ever been in my career.
Drawing on lived experience, neuroscience-informed coaching, and a long career in HR, I help people rebuild self-trust, lead with calm authority, and find a more authentic way to succeed. I truly believe that people are great just as they are, and that with the right guidance, they can lead with confidence and thrive, without having to sacrifice who they are in the process.
That experience became the NooWay® , the work I do today and the reason I've written this book.
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