Welcome to Flourish Lab
Because our experience of life is shaped by our experience at work at Flourish Lab we bring the science of positive psychology and organisational development into your unique context – embedding leadership, capability, and wellbeing directly into the fabric of performance and purpose.
For organisations seeking to empower their people and create lasting impact, Flourish Lab is both a thought partner and an execution ally – helping teams unlock potential, elevate culture and thrive in a way that ensures they live well and work well.
Our Core Services
Leadership Development
The Leadership Essentials Program reframes soft skills as core strategic assets. We help leaders bring their humanity into everyday interactions so teams perform better, adapt faster, and sustain their wellbeing.
- The Emerging Leader
Focus: Self leadership through a strengths based lens.
Outcomes: Deeper self awareness, stronger personal resilience, application of strengths to everyday tasks, improved time and priority management. - The Connected Leader
Focus: The science of emotions and relational leadership.
Outcomes: Stronger team cohesion and accountability, improved conflict navigation, understanding of leadership with empathy, resilience and trust. - The Growth Leader
Focus: Cross functional impact and organisational behavioural competence.
Outcomes: Enhanced stakeholder influence, better cross team collaboration, stronger systems thinking, and the capability to develop and retain talent.
Program Suite
What Clients Gain
- Stronger leader effectiveness at each level
- Increased psychological safety
- Higher team performance
- Greater organisational agility
- Empowered workforce
Wellbeing Advisory
Using our Vital 5 Framework allows organisations to integrate the latest wellbeing science with practical organisational design. Developed by Flourish Lab, the Vital 5 identifies the essential drivers of a flourishing workforce. These five elements are not “nice to have”, they are predictors of performance, retention, innovation, and resilience.
The Vital 5
What Clients Gain
Using appreciative enquiry combined with our Vital 5 diagnostic we have a clear, evidence‑based picture of where your organisation is thriving and where capacity is being lost.
From there, we co‑design your Vital 5 Integration Roadmap. This is not a wellbeing program; it is a capacity‑building system for the future of your workforce.
Capacity Building
We partner with executive leaders and HR teams to strengthen internal capability across commercial strategy and execution, talent development, and team performance. Grounded in positive psychology and emotional intelligence, our experiential approach—backed by diagnostics and practical toolkits—builds sustainable capability through process, people, and systems.
What Clients Gain
- End-to-end strategy facilitation: Design and align strategy with a clear, tactical roadmap.
- Talent roadmap design: Development planning frameworks that link skills, roles, and career pathways.
- Practical coaching uplift for leaders: Hands-on coaching skills leaders can apply day-to-day.
- Team capability uplift: Using the FlourishLab HPT framework- equip leaders to develop team charters inclusive of purpose, goals, norms, commitments, role clarity and learning.
Key Initiatives
Meet Marlene Tanner
Marlene Tanner is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience driving transformation across healthcare, medtech, and not-for-profit sectors. Renowned for unlocking strategic clarity and elevating leadership capability, she empowers organisations to uplift their leadership and commercial capability while cultivating thriving talent systems.
Her work is anchored in integrity, trust, and a passion for creating purpose driven impact. As a Positive Health Scholar at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Marlene integrates cuttingedge insights from positive psychology, emotional intelligence and organisational development to help enterprises advance health outcomes, and amplify social impact.
Based in Sydney, Marlene is available for face-to-face engagements across Australia
and New Zealand or virtually across time zones depending on your requirements.
Client Testimonials
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