The RISE Circle: Work & Health

For business professionals navigating work and health after injury or illness

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN THE RISE CIRCLEJoin as a Member — £50/month

The RISE Circle: Work & Health

For business professionals navigating work and health after injury or illness

Why Join Rise Circle?

You've made it through the hardest part.

The diagnosis. The treatment. The initial recovery. The return.

And now you're back, showing up, holding it together, keeping the professional version of yourself intact.

But you're doing it alone.

There's no one in your immediate circle who truly understands the daily calculations. The energy management. The invisible decisions. The effort of maintaining a business or a career while quietly managing something significant that most people around you will never fully see.

You've become very good at adapting. Very good at making it look fine.

And it's exhausting in a way that's almost impossible to explain.

Register your InterestJoin as a Member — £50/month

What if you didn't have to keep doing it that way?

RISE is not a support group. Not a generic business community. Not another space where you have to explain your situation from scratch before anyone understands what you're talking about.

It's a room, a real one, even if it's virtual, where everyone already gets it.

Where you can say "this week has been hard and here's why" and be met with genuine understanding. Where someone else's experience becomes a torch that helps you find your own way a little more clearly. Where the invisible load gets a little lighter, simply because you're not carrying it entirely alone.

That's what The RISE Circle is.

A note from Heather...

After my stroke and cancer diagnosis, I kept managing alone.

I had the professional knowledge - 30 years in occupational health and vocational rehabilitation. I knew, intellectually, what recovery should look like. And yet I still found myself white-knuckling my way through weeks that cost far more than they should have, because I had no one around me who understood the specific combination of things I was navigating.

The health side and the professional side. The identity loss and the income pressure. The grief for who I used to be alongside the work of building something new.

What I needed, and what I have now founded, was community with people who were living the same thing.

The RISE Circle is what I wish had existed for me. I'm building it for you.

What you get as a member:

A private WhatsApp group for ongoing connection and day-to-day support between calls (subject to agreed hours)
One live 60-minute group call every month — a dedicated space to think, share, and move forward together.
A MEMBER only Benefit Code for a special price on 1 x 60 minute strategy call with Heather, available once for every six months of membership. This exclusively for RISE Circle members and is not available anywhere else.
Priority invites and discounts to future events, including quarterly KPI review workshops.

Is This For You? It is if:

You're a business owner, leader, or professional who has experienced serious illness or injury and is navigating the long-term reality of managing your health alongside your work.

You've returned to work, or you're in the process of doing so, but something still feels unsettled. Unsustainable. Like you're running a system that wasn't designed for the person you are now.

You're tired of generic advice that doesn't account for your situation. You want honest, practical, human support from people who understand it from the inside.

You're ready to stop doing quite so much of this alone.

Why Heather McLellan?

Heather brings something rare to this space, a combination of 30 years of professional expertise in occupational health and vocational rehabilitation, and the lived experience of navigating stroke, blood cancer, and serious injury while running her own business.

She knows the professional and business landscape. She knows the medical landscape. And she knows what it actually feels like to sit in the middle of both, trying to hold everything together.

The RISE Circle is built on that dual understanding. It isn't theory. It's lived.