Sven Hansen

Dr Sven Hansen is a medical practitioner who founded and leads the Resilience Institute. He started his career in special forces before completing medicine and becoming a sports doctor. After completing an MBA in 1992, Sven set about taking the science and practice of elite sport into the workplace. Just as athletes and teams train body, emotion and mind and have to secure the optimal lifestyle so all of us who work for a living must consider how to lift and sustain our productivity. Sven has worked across the world delivering Resilience Training to professional firms, banks, corporates, entrepreneurs, schools and universities. (see: https://resiliencei.com).

The Resilience Institute has teams in New Zealand, Australia, Europe, North America, Singapore and China.

Sven currently lives between Auckland and Noosa with his wife Susan. Their daughter Lauren is finishing Law and their son is an engineer. He is a keen outdoor sportsman and still races in ocean swims and surfski competitions.