About Dr Sven Hansen MBChB, MBA

Dr Sven Hansen is the founder of The Resilience Institute, a global resilience assessment and training organisation. Starting his career in special forces, Sven completed medicine in 1986 and practiced in sports medicine. After completing an MBA in 1993, he started resilience training for corporates, professional firms, education and entrepreneurs.​

 

Sven helps individuals and organizations unlock their full potential. He has worked with numerous high-profile clients, guiding them towards achieving their personal and professional goals. ​His unique approach combines his background in sports medicine with his expertise in resilience training and business. He is passionate about empowering leaders to thrive in today's fast-paced and challenging business environment. To learn more about Dr. Sven Hansen and how he can help you, please get in touch.​

 

Sven lives in Noosa, Australia and works with selected clients in Australia, New Zealand and globally. He is an active ocean athlete who can be found on his surfski, swimming or on his kite surfer off the Sunshine Coast. Sven is married to Susan who is a professional director. They have two children; Lauren who is a lawyer in Auckland and James who is  a trader in Amsterdam.​

 

At heart, he's a passionate biologist. Growing up in South Africa with two brothers, swimming, waterpolo, kayaking and skydiving were sport passions. With a professor of paediatrics father and social worker mother, I took school seriously and finished as the War Memorial Scholar for the year at King Edwards. Then spent a year in the USA as an American Field Service scholar.​

 

After two years in Pathfinders (South African special forces), he committed to medicine to learn more about how people function—or not. He took my first hospital job in Christchurch New Zealand and found a happy place in sports medicine. Seeing how the performance sciences improved the function of athletes, in 1991 he leaned into preventive  and executive medicine. After an MBA and working on corporate health solutions for professional firms, his work came together as the Resilience Institute in 2002.