Artemis Group Limited
Sue Johnston
Leadership Coach & Facilitator |
Creator of LifeStar - The Operating System for Sustainable Leadership
The operating system for sustainable leadership
Designed for the intersection between leadership pressure and personal sustainability.
Leadership today isn’t just demanding.
It’s full of never ending obligations, decisions and firefighting.
If you’re leading, supporting leaders, or shaping leadership development, you’ll recognise the pattern:
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Capable people.
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High standards.
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Strong intent.
And a system carrying more than it was designed to hold for this long.
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LifeStar is a practical operating system for humans that strengthens personal sustainability— so performance can remain strong without quietly eroding capacity.
It doesn’t add another layer of expectation.
It helps leaders, coaches, and organisations build regenerative resilience — the balanced capacity that allows energy, clarity, and recovery to coexist with performance.
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The Real Cost of Sustained Pressure
​For individual leaders, it often feels like this:
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Decisions take more energy than they used to
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Recovery doesn’t fully happen
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You’re still thinking about work when you’ve stopped
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Everything seems to come back to you.
For coaches and HR/OD professionals, it shows up differently:
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Clients gain insight but struggle to sustain change
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Leaders improve in skill, yet remain depleted
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Programmes build competence without building capacity
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Organisations become overly dependent on individual stamina.
This isn’t about motivation.
It’s what happens when capable people are leading inside organisational systems that are themselves under sustained pressure.
Deadlines compress.
Expectations rise.
Change doesn’t pause.
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Over time, that external pressure doesn’t stay outside. It shows up in the person leading.
Most leadership development strengthens capability.
LifeStar strengthens regenerative resilience — the balanced capacity that emerges when a leader’s internal operating system is supported across energy, recovery, self-leadership, meaningful connection, and sustainable progress.
Resilience doesn’t come from one behaviour.
It emerges when the leader’s internal system is working in balance — even while the organisational system remains demanding.
Curious how LifeStar could apply in your leadership context, coaching practice, or organisation?
→ Contact Sue to discuss integration options
What LifeStar Is
LifeStar is a structured operating system for sustainable leadership.
It is:
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Practical enough for daily leadership life
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Structured enough for coaches to integrate with clarity
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Robust enough for organisations to scale
It does not sit beside leadership development.
It strengthens the system leadership development runs on.
At the intersection between leadership pressure and personal sustainability, LifeStar builds the internal conditions that allow sustainable performance to hold.
Curious to see LifeStar in Action? →
The LifeStar Operating System
LifeStar works through five integrated capacities:
Move — Physical energy as leadership fuel
Stop — Intentional recovery and nervous system reset
Care — Self leadership and care that protects and sustains capacity
Connect — Meaningful connection.
Achieve — Sustainable progress that builds confidence and momentum
When these five points are balanced — not maximised, not optimised, but integrated — regenerative resilience emerges.
Not as a quick fix.
As a sustainable way of living.
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Curious how LifeStar works in practice?
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What Capacity Strengthens
For leaders:
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Energy feels steadier
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Decisions don’t drain you as much
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Recovery happens faster
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Pressure feels more manageable
For coaches:
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Clients sustain change between sessions
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Insight translates into consistent action
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Progress becomes visible and repeatable
For organisations:
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Decision quality holds under complexity
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Leadership bottlenecks reduce
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Performance becomes less dependent on individual stamina
This is what regenerative resilience looks like in practice.
Not pushing harder.
Not stepping back.
Strengthening your capacity so leadership performance can hold under pressure.
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If strengthening leadership capacity is a priority in your organisation:
→ Discuss Integration Options
Leadership Under Pressure Requires More Than Skill
Leadership under pressure requires more than skill.
It requires a system that strengthens capacity, sharpens decisions, and shortens recovery.
If you are:
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A leader wanting to strengthen your own internal capacity
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A coach working with leaders whose progress needs to hold up in real life
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An HR or OD professional looking to embed sustainable performance across a leadership system
LifeStar offers a practical, structured operating system you can integrate immediately.
Sustainable leadership isn’t about doing more.
It’s about strengthening the system you’re already running on.
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If you’re ready to explore how LifeStar could
strengthen leadership in your context:
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