About us
Maria Brosnan
Founder, Pursuit Wellbeing
I’ve spent over twenty years working inside schools, alongside hundreds of headteachers and senior leaders. I’m not a former teacher, and I’ve never run a school, but I’ve seen, up close and for a long time, what the role asks of the people who do.
What I noticed was this: leaders are told to fix their workload, their time, their mindset. Useful, but it leaves out the body, which is where sustained pressure actually accumulates. So that’s where Pursuit Wellbeing starts. We make what’s happening in the body visible, show people it can be changed, and build it into how they lead.
My background is in counselling and coaching, with over thirty years’ experience. I’ve also written The Pursuit of Sleep for Teachers, a practical guide to rest and recovery. But the work I’m proudest of is what we do in schools: helping the people who hold everything together stay well enough to keep leading.
Dr. Carla Stanton
Clinical Partner
Carla is a GP and Certified Functional Medicine Doctor with over twenty years of clinical experience, and Medical Director of HeartMath UK, the organisation behind the biofeedback technology used in our programmes.
Alongside her medical work, she delivers performance and wellbeing programmes to doctors and frontline professionals, and works internationally on research into biofeedback and its role in physical and emotional health.
Carla co-created our Heart and Brain Health programme and shapes the science behind everything we do, which is what lets us say, with confidence, that our work holds up to scrutiny.
Together
We bring two things that rarely sit at the same table: real, long-term understanding of school life, and genuine clinical credibility. That combination is why our work is both practical and rigorous, and why it makes a lasting difference to the people who lead our schools.
“Every session was an eye-opener. The self-awareness I’ve gained is already changing how I lead at school and how I am in myself. Working alongside other heads was reassuring and encouraging.”
Jonathan Walters, Headteacher