ABOUT | MindStage.co.uk

Nick Haswell, Founder—15+ years in corporate leadership, creator of LIGHT™.

ABOUT MindStage

MindStage builds behavioural infrastructure for high-pressure environments.

We work where moments matter — where interactions can escalate, emotions run high, and mistakes cost people, performance, safety, and outcomes.

Most systems fail under pressure. Not because people lack skill — they lose access to it.

WHY MINDSTAGE EXISTS

Organisations invest in knowledge, frameworks, and capability.

But in real pressure, knowledge alone doesn’t save outcomes.

The gap between knowing what to do and being able to do it under stress is where conflict, complaints, and exhaustion start.

MindStage closes that gap. We design repeatable, observable systems that keep people steady in the moments that matter.

OUR APPROACH

We don’t teach thinking. We don’t run workshops or programmes.

We build behavioural systems that operate in real time under pressure:

Usable in live situations

Easy to adopt

Low-burden

Operationally safe

If it can’t run in the moment it’s needed, it doesn’t belong.

LIGHT™

LIGHT™ is MindStage’s core behavioural operating system.

It activates in the first seconds of pressure — before escalation, before reactivity, before conversations derail.

Runs in live interactions, not training rooms

Works alongside existing processes, not instead of them

Designed for behavioural stability under pressure, not knowledge delivery

Positioned for NHS pilots with teams managing high-pressure interactions, complaints, and escalations.

OUR FOUNDER

Nick Haswell spent 15+ years in high-pressure organisational environments, bridging behavioural science, operational reality, and lived experience.

LIGHT™ grew out of that work — not a model, not a theory, a practical operating system that stabilises real interactions when pressure spikes.

WHO WE WORK WITH

MindStage partners with organisations where:

Interactions carry emotional or operational risk

Decisions happen under pressure

Consistency matters

People must perform in complex, human situations

Sectors include healthcare, education, public services, and high-pressure corporate environments.

WHAT MATTERS TO US

Clarity over complexity

Stability over theory

Practical impact over presentation

Everything we build works when it counts.

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