Rachel Morris

Dr Rachel Morris is a former NHS GP who now helps leaders and professionals in high-stakes, high-pressure roles beat burnout and work sustainably. She is host of the Apple Top 100 UK Business Chart podcast You Are Not a Frog (1M+ downloads) and creator of the Shapes Toolkit® Resilience Training Programme.
Over the past decade - and through hundreds of podcast conversations - Rachel has uncovered what really drives burnout in high performers: not a lack of resilience, but a conditioned habit of carrying responsibility for everything, including what isn’t theirs to carry. She calls this the Responsibility Trap, and she has helped thousands of doctors and senior leaders break out of it so they can care deeply without feeling responsible for it all.
For many years Rachel taught at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, where she was Assistant Director of GP Studies, set up and led the Doctor as Professional course, and tutored on the PGCert in Medical Education. She co-created and presented Red Whale’s Lead, Manage, Thrive! course. Her tools were built and stress-tested in medicine, where the consequences are real - which is exactly why they work just as well in any high-pressure organization.