About Niky

Leadership Changed Everything

Leadership begins within.

I'm Niky Hamilton—speaker, physiotherapist, leadership coach, retreat facilitator, and creator of the RISE UP Framework™ and MindHearted™ Leadership.

My mission is to help women build emotional resilience and lead with calm confidence through life's challenges—without losing themselves in the process.

Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's this:

Leadership isn't tested when life is easy. It's tested when life asks more of us than we think we can give. And that's a place I know well.

My Story

The Moment Everything Changed

For many years, I thought leadership was about pushing harder. Working harder. Giving more. Holding everything together.

I built an award-winning physiotherapy business, led a growing team, supported thousands of women, and from the outside, it looked like I had it all under control.

But underneath, I was carrying more than anyone could see.

Like many women, I was juggling leadership, business, family, responsibility, and the constant pressure to keep showing up no matter what was happening in my own life.

Then life changed forever.

When our son died, my world stopped.

One moment I was leading a business, planning for the future, creating goals and moving through everyday life.

The next, I could barely breathe.

Grief changed everything. My confidence disappeared. My mind felt foggy. Decision-making became exhausting.

I questioned myself constantly.

And yet the world around me kept moving. I found myself trying to lead through one of the hardest seasons of my life while quietly falling apart inside.

The Search

Searching for a Way Forward

I did what many people do. I sought support.

I worked with counsellors. I saw psychologists. I talked through the grief.

And while that support was invaluable, I found myself asking a question that wouldn't leave me alone:

What next?

I was tired of retelling the story.

I wanted practical steps. A pathway through. A way to calm my emotions, manage stress, rebuild trust in myself, and find direction again.

I wanted to feel like me again.

But I couldn't find the framework I was looking for.

So I created it.

My Story

The Moment Everything Changed

That season changed me completely. Not because grief made me weaker. Because it made me more honest.

More authentic.

It stripped away the version of leadership I had been living—the version built on pressure, over-giving, self-sacrifice, and holding everything together.

And it taught me something far more powerful.

Resilience is not about bouncing back. It's about transforming through what life asks of us.

It's about learning how to rise through adversity without abandoning yourself in the process.

It's about building the inner leadership to navigate uncertainty, setbacks, grief, burnout, overwhelm, and change with greater self-trust, courage, and compassion.

That became the foundation of everything I teach today.

A Note From Niky

Leadership isn't tested when life is easy. It's tested when life asks more of us than we think we can give.

— Niky Hamilton

A Note From Niky

Leadership isn't tested when life is easy. It's tested when life asks more of us than we think we can give.

— Niky Hamilton

The Framework

What Emerged From That Season

RISE UP™ and MindHearted™ Leadership

As I immersed myself in understanding human behaviour, emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, leadership, communication, and transformation, I began developing a practical step by step pathway that helped me rebuild my own life.

What emerged became the RISE UP Framework™.

Rise UP was built to help women lead themselves through life's setbacks with calm confidence. A clear mind and an open heart. It starts with self-leadership. A clear pathway designed to help women restore their energy, reconnect to their values, strengthen self-trust, and lead themselves through life's challenges with greater calm, clarity, and confidence.

Once we have stepped into calm confident self-leadership, we can then step toward leading others.

As the work evolved, so did my understanding of leadership. I grew my business and my team tripled in size over the space of 4 years, using the principals of Rise UP. To emerge as a MindHearted leader of others.

Today, I see leadership as two train tracks running side by side.

One Track

The Mind

Strategy.

Direction.

Decision-making.

Planning.

Execution.

The Other

The Heart

Connection.

Communication

Emotional intelligence.

Courage.

Compassion.

Without the mind, leadership loses direction.

Without the heart, leadership loses humanity.

We need both.

MindHearted™ Leadership.

Because before we can effectively lead our businesses, teams, families, communities, or organisations, we must first learn how to lead ourselves.

And it starts, selfishly, with self.

The Work

Qualifications & Experience

For more than 20 years, I've supported women through health challenges, personal growth, leadership development, and transformation.

My work combines evidence-based leadership tools, emotional resilience practices, neuroscience, communication skills, and practical self-leadership strategies.

  • Speaker and Retreat Facilitator

  • Qualified Physiotherapist

  • NLP Master Coach

  • Dr Demartini Facilitator

  • HeartMath Trained

  • Certified Speaker

  • Dare to Lead Graduate

But the truth is, the qualifications were never the real transformation.

The real transformation came from learning how to stay connected to myself while life asked more of me.

That is the work I now share with women around the world.

My Invitation To You

There is another way

If you're reading this while quietly feeling stretched thin beneath the surface...

If you're carrying more than anyone realises...

If you've been leading everyone else while losing connection to yourself...

I want you to know something.

You do not need to keep abandoning yourself to keep everything else afloat.

You do not need to sacrifice your wellbeing to be successful.

You do not need to become harder to become stronger.

A way to lead with calm confidence.

A way to build resilience without hardening.

A way to rise through life's challenges without losing who you are.

And it begins with learning to lead yourself first.

Because when a woman reconnects to herself…everything changes.

The way she leads.

The way she loves.

The way she communicates.

The way she builds success.

The way she experiences life.

It starts, selfishly, from within.

Steps to working with me

Your Pathway to Calm, Confident Leadership

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It starts with Self-ish

I wrote this to start your journey. Give yourself permission to start choosing yourself.

Buy the book here.

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RISE UP™

Restore your energy, reconnect to your values, and build the self-leadership skills to navigate life's challenges with greater resilience, clarity, and confidence. Join me on retreats here or ask about my online program here.

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MINDHEARTED™

Rise UP Mastery Skills. A 12 month supportive deep dive into creating the life you deserve—with courageous communication, healthy boundaries, emotional intelligence, mindset, NLP coaching—the MindHearted™ way, so you can lead yourself and others without losing yourself.

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Retreats, Speaking & Events

Experience transformational learning, meaningful connection, and practical tools that help you rise through life's challenges and lead with calm confidence. Book your speaking event here, ask about workshops and keynotes here.

My Story

I’m Niky and my mission is to help women build the inner strength and resilient leadership, even through life’s setbacks. To reclaim the leader within. To build resilience, courage, and confidence—even when we feel stretched thin, so we can build a team that thrives.

Some of you have experienced it already. A time when you feel weighed down with all the responsibility. Perhaps juggling your personal life circumstances, your working life, trying to steer your business or your team.

Perhaps trying to juggle your responsibilities, on the treadmill, holding it together for everyone else whilst feeling... 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏.

And, it's not making you taller or skinnier.

We don’t talk enough about this kind of leadership. Not the polished, high-performing version. But the version where you might find yourself through fatigue, burnout or overwhelm. The version where your energy is low, your mind is foggy— and yet, you’re still showing up. Still leading your team. Still holding space for others. 

And this, this is the 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍. 

I get you. I’ve been there. I've climbed that difficult path.

Whether it’s background life circumstances, work or business setbacks, you can easily lose yourself on the treadmill, all while juggling a team, leadership and business.

I empower women to reclaim the leader within, to build selfish leadership skills with clarity and direction. So they can lead themselves and build thriving teams that rise with them.

When life stretches you thin, your leadership doesn’t have to break. Build the inner strength to lead your team—and yourself—with grace, no matter what comes your way.

It is possible to grow, create and become the person you know you need to be. I’ve created this for YOU.

My Journey of Personal Growth and Empowerment

During my journey through my own grief, I struggled to find a pathway through. Found myself looping in a story of resentment, blame, guilt. On an emotional rollercoaster, without direction.

Yes I saw counsellors. Yes I saw psychologists. And while this was helpful, I found myself asking, what next? I was tired of the story and wanted a clear pathway, practical steps through. To rebuild and reclaim my leader within. So I could start leading my life again.

And guess what? I could find it. So I created it.

I stepped into a new pathway of learning leadership in a new way, starting with inner leadership. I studied nervous system and brain, emotional regulation with Heart Math, became an NLP master coach and a Demartini facilitator. I later completed Brene' Brown's Dare to Lead program to further expand on team leadership skills

And took the best pieces from what I had learnt from all over the world and put them into a simple step by step framework to help myself build resilient mind-hearted leadership. To move from depletion and overwhelm to a sense of courage, clarity and confidence. And It starts with selfish leadership

It’s implementing these steps that have helped me transform my own life. To start leading myself, so I could then lead others.

Today, I see leadership as two train tracks running side by side.

One track is the mind—strategy, systems, structure, direction.

The other is the heart—empathy, attunement, courage, connection.

And it starts with selfish.

● In my home life I found better communication, understanding, love and connection.
● In my health I discovered new sense of vitality and energy.
● In my business my team trusted me more deeply. Communication strengthened. My team grew. My business expanded. Not because I bounced back—I didn’t. But because I rose differently. I’d stopped leading from performance and started leading from presence and authenticity. In a mind-hearted way.

I discovered that resilience is not about bouncing back.

It’s about transforming. Through life’s challenges and setbacks. It is possible to choose to grow, create and become the person, the leader you need to be. It starts with giving yourself permission to be selfish.

I’ve also discovered every leaders challenges are unique. We are the ones that juggle our business lives, leadership, teams and personal lives. Our stories will all be different, but pathway toward selfish leadership, to becoming a Mind-Hearted leader is the same.

The Rise UP leadership program was created to offer women like us the steps to build inner leadership through life’s messiness. The next step, the Mind-Hearted Leader Certification, is designed to start leading others. To step into courage, confidence, clarity and authenticity. To become Mind-Hearted Leader.

I’ve now worked for 10 years with helping women build resilient leadership skill. From all walks of life build resilient leadership with coaching and retreats.

Like to hear from other women who have experienced Niky’s Coaching and Retreats?

Niky’s Qualifications

Physiotherapist and business owner

Brene’ Brown Dare to Lead Leadership Training

NLP Master Coach

Physiotherapist and business owner

Brene’ Brown Dare to Lead Leadership Training

NLP Master Coach

Heart Math

Demartini Facilitator

Mindfulness Meditation and Yoga Teacher

Heart Math

Demartini Facilitator

Mindfulness Meditation and Yoga Teacher

Professional Speaker CS-ISA

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Leadership can stretch you thin, test you, stretch you, steer you to become. Without selfish leadership tools we can find ourselves leading on empty. Become the calm confident leader you know you can be, without losing yourself. Give yourself permission to lead yourself and build teams that thrive. The mind-hearted way. Join me.

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