Much like the debate over whether leaders are born or made, resilience is often seen as a fixed trait—something set at birth by genetic luck, like eye colour or height. While some people are naturally more resilient, just as others may have a greater talent for leadership, talent is only the starting point; it doesn’t determine the final outcome.

Adapting personal protection strategies to the challenges of everyday life, Always a Little Further explores leadership and resilience through the lens of ‘scripts‘—not Hollywood screenplays or pharmacy prescriptions, but the subtle ways patterns shape behaviour.

These unseen scripts often guide our choices without question, quietly limiting what we believe is possible. As Dr. Dan Pronk, co-author of The Resilience Shield, observes: “We all tend to follow the scripts that society writes for us, often at the expense of what we truly want out of life.”

Always a Little Further challenges these limiting patterns and offers actionable tools that anyone—regardless of their genetic luck—can use to rewrite their own scripts, face adversity with courage, and embrace a renewed sense of purpose.

Read the Foreword by Dr Kate Baecher here.