How LifeStar Works

Lead well — and keep going.

A practical framework for personal sustainability and regenerative resilience, designed for real lives under pressure.

LifeStar works because it meets people where they are. It supports leadership that is human, capable, and sustainable — helping people lead well, and keep going.

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A simple framework for real life

LifeStar is built around five interconnected points — Move, Stop, Care, Connect, and Achieve.

Together, they offer a simple structure for noticing:

where energy is coming from
where it’s being drained
what’s supporting focus and momentum
and what needs attention right now

Rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all solution, LifeStar helps people see their own patterns and make small, meaningful adjustments that fit their lives and last over time.

LifeStar offers organisations a practical way to build leadership capacity and resilience. Our Five Points Framework helps people turn ambition into sustainable performance, strengthen collaboration, and protect what matters most.

Because the real advantage isn’t just in what your people achieve—it’s in how they sustain their energy, balance, and impact every day. Over time, this helps people make choices that are more aligned with how they want to live and lead — even when those choices feel challenging.

How this supports leaders?

As leadership behaviours shape team culture, LifeStar also supports how groups work together day to day. For leaders, LifeStar provides a practical way to:

sustain energy and focus over time
lead with clarity, confidence, and courage under pressure
make decisions that support both performance and wellbeing
keep showing up in demanding roles without burning out.

LifeStar supports leaders of teams, and leaders of leaders by providing a shared language for talking about energy, pressure, and pace — making it easier to support others to lead well and keep going too.

How LifeStar® supports teams and organisations

In teams and workplaces, LifeStar offers a trusted framework for:

building shared understanding around energy, focus, and sustainability
supporting leaders to have real, human conversations
strengthening trust and psychological safety
embedding sustainable leadership practices into everyday wor

Because the framework is simple and shared, it supports consistency without rigidity — helping teams build ways of working that people can actually sustain.

How LifeStar supports coaches

or coaches, LifeStar supports the moment where insight needs to turn into action — not through pressure or accountability, but through meaning, confidence, and choice.

LifeStar helps coaches situate their work firmly within the context of a client’s real life. It supports clients to understand why the changes they’re exploring matter — to their leadership, their values, and the legacy they want to create.

Through the LifeStar framework, clients build a clearer picture of how energy, focus, boundaries, relationships, and direction shape the way they lead. This gives them the confidence to try courageous things between sessions — to hold new boundaries, have difficult conversations, and make different choices — because they can see how those choices connect to what matters most.

LifeStar gives coaches:

a way to help clients connect insight with values, purpose, and long-term impact
a practical structure that supports clients to say “I can do this” and “this matters”
a shared language that helps coach and client reflect honestly on progress, without judgement
a framework that complements existing coaching approaches and strengthens follow-through.

The result is coaching that lives in the client’s world — supporting courage, agency, and change that lasts — without the coach needing to push, persuade, or carry the work alone.

LifeStar® in action

Cultivating Gratitude

Develop your mindset and skills for appreciating, recognising, and responding to the good things around you.

70 min
Self-led mini sessions
App based learning
Includes LifeStar Gratitude Journal & Skills Work Book

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LifeStar® 101

Get clear about your current lifestyle patterns so you know where you need to focus to have more energy, calm and joy.

7 & 30 Day Options
Self-led or Coach Supported Debrief
Online learning platform with videos & worksheet
One-on-one coaching option

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LifeStar® Reset

You will have more impact at work, presence at home, and space to enjoy your favourite hobbies and healthy activities.

Six Weeks or Self Paced
Self-led & Group coaching
Online learning platform with videos & workbook
Option for One-on-one coaching.

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LifeStar® at work

LifeStar® provides a common structure for leaders and teams to talk about and navigate wellbeing and resilience.

Scheduled to suit your workplace
Workshops
Self paced online learning
One-on-one personlised coaching option

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LifeStar is for you if you:

It's difficult to balance work and self-care to have time to recharge and take care of yourself.
You're tired of always feeling stressed and overwhelmed by everything.
You want to make lasting changes to live life with more balance, energy and enjoyment.
Your wellbeing is important to you, and you need some personalised guidance.

It does! Because you will make small and significant shifts in your life that lead to you having more energy, joy and impact.

Sue Johnston is the creator of the LifeStar® guide. She has been using it with her coaching clients for many years. Sue lives in Aotearoa, New Zealand, where she works with her clients worldwide.

As a nurse and health advisor, she understood how our choices affect our health and lifespan. She is a well-known leadership coach who focuses on confidence and mindset. She knows the challenges of living and leading with authenticity and courage.

Being active has always been part of Sue’s life. She played three sports at the state level: netball, surf lifesaving, and water polo. She also played water polo for the New Zealand Women's national team. Nowadays, she enjoys biking, walking, swimming, dancing, and doing Pilates. She enjoys spending time with family and friends and with her fruit trees. Having travel adventures and enjoying good food and wine is also a joy for Sue.

This health and wellbeing programme includes self-leadership skills for lasting results.

The simplicity of the LifeStar™ guide makes it easy to engage and continue to use.
LifeStar® five points combined and balanced result in improved wellbeing and happiness.
LifeStar® is a personalised guide. – it is not a cookie-cutter list of to-dos. You decide what activities you fill your life with.
LifeStar® encourages you to become more aware of what is important to you rather than faking it to fit in.
LifeStar® supports you to have more energy and enjoy life, trying new activities with an open mind.
LifeStar® supports you to consider balance over extreme.
LifeStar® teaches us that being human, having messy lives, and striving are normal. And we should accept these as parts of life instead of chasing perfection.

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Lead well — and keep going.