Mental Toughness Coaching
Assessment & coaching to turbo-charge team performanceResilience helps you survive. Mental toughness helps you prosper.
Measure it. Understand it. Build it. One-to-one coaching and team programmes built on the world’s leading measure of mental toughness — led by an Everest summiteer and certified MTQ practitioner.
Bouncing back isn’t enough. Bounce forward.
Business has never been more volatile — constant, unpredictable change is now the environment, not the exception. The people and teams who thrive aren’t simply the ones who cope; they’re the ones who lean in. Mentally tough people see pressure, setbacks and change as opportunities to grow, not threats to survive. Resilience is bouncing back — recovering to where you were. Mental toughness is bouncing forward — using the challenge to get stronger. Unlike a fixed trait, it’s measurable and can be developed.
What can Ricky do for your team?
Ricky is an expert in Mental Toughness, resilience & living with purpose. His own mental toughness was forged through failure, success & overcoming adversity. His classroom was the Death Zone on the world's highest mountains and the Sahara desert on ultra-endurance events.Four components. One measure.
Mental toughness is understood through four connected components — Control, Commitment, Challenge and Confidence — each measured by the MTQPlus assessment, and each breaking down into practical sub-scales you can work on.
The Mental Toughness Accelerator (MTAP).
The programme bookends an inspirational talk and coaching with the assessment, so the change is measured, not just felt.
Mental Toughness Assessments
Globally-accredited, well-validated psychometric assessments that measure mental toughness — highlighting team and individual strengths and the areas to develop.
Inspirational Talk
Ricky shows how he developed mental toughness on his journey from a Glasgow council estate to the top of the world.
Team & Individual Coaching
Ricky works with all levels of leadership and management, with a coaching style that’s honest, authentic and humble — to inspire life-changing, sustainable results.
The same assessment, re-taken at the close, measures the distance travelled — your before-and-after, for individuals and teams.
Programmes that move the needle.
Every MTAP programme runs Assess → Inspire → Coach → Re-assess, so you can measure the change.
- Base-state MTQPlus for up to 8 people
- In-house “Follow Your Dreams” team session
- Half-day team workshop
- Individual reports + team profile
- End-state re-test to measure change
- Full-day leadership workshop
- A 1:1 debrief for every leader
- Two follow-up coaching sessions
- End-state re-test to measure change
- Multi-cohort base-state assessment
- Talk(s) across the organisation
- Quarterly workshops + leader 1:1s
- Re-test each cohort + full reporting
Keynote on its own — “Follow Your Dreams” from £1,500 virtual / from £4,000 in person. Individual assessment and 1:1 coaching can also be bought directly. Prices exclude VAT — book a call to scope what fits.
A clear, benchmarked picture.
An overall mental toughness score plus a breakdown across the 4C’s and sub-scales, benchmarked against a large normative group (sten 1–10), a plain-language narrative for each scale, and specific development suggestions.
In their words.
“Your ability to tell the story authentically and with humility brings your adventures powerfully to life. We salute you.”
Matt SmithHead of Public Sector, Citrix UK&I
“Building greatness from challenging times.”
Rod IsmayCFG Northern Conference
“Great inspirational talk — loved it. Change your mindset, change your life, and achieve.”
Deborah HayesTrainer, BP
Psychometrics, not motivational hype.
I’m Ricky Munday — an Everest summiteer, Chartered Accountant and Churchill Fellow. I’ve stood in the Death Zone, crossed the Sahara in the Marathon des Sables, and led more than 30 expeditions. As a certified MTQ practitioner, I help individuals and teams measure and develop mental toughness, grounded in robust psychometrics rather than motivational hype.
My expert understanding of how our thinking affects our behaviour informs my approach to Mental Toughness coaching with individuals and teams, which helps organisations and teams transform their performance, productivity and profitability.
Good to know.
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Coaching; forward-looking, and built on a validated assessment.
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About 20 minutes, completed online.
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Yes; assessment and coaching both work remotely.
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Always. Individuals see their own results; organisations see only the aggregated profile unless agreed otherwise
Measure it. Build it.
Book a free 15-minute discovery call to find out how mental toughness coaching could work for you or your team.
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Better performance
Better and sustained wellbeing
Development of positive behaviours
Tell Ricky about your event.
Share your ideas, audience and a rough date, and Ricky will come back with availability and a tailored plan. Prefer email? coaching@rickymunday.com.
Mental Toughness is a personality trait that determines your ability to perform consistently under stress and pressure. It's often confused with resilience. Resilience can be defined as 'the ability to recover quickly from difficulties'. When something goes wrong, resilience enables us to grit our teeth, pick ourselves up and still believe that – despite this setback – we can achieve some or all of our goals.
However, resilience doesn't always mean that we have a positive feeling about a negative situation; in fact, someone who is resilient but without optimism & confidence can struggle if setbacks are too frequent or too sustained. Resilience can be viewed as a passive or neutral quality; we're resilient because we have to be resilient, not because we want to be.
Psychologists studying resilient managers found that some responded differently to stress, pressure and challenge. Some adopted a positive approach to adversity & challenge; in some cases even seeking this out. A predisposition towards exposure to challenge & risk enables these individuals to deal better with setbacks.
This positive, confident approach to adversity defines Mental Toughness
“Resilience helps you survive. Mental Toughness helps you to prosper”