Human Capacity.
Practical Tools.
Lasting Impact.Â
For recovery. For resilience. For performance.
Practical, research-informed tools help build the brain-body capacity behind how we move, think, recover, and perform.
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Different starting points. One shared goal: building the brain-body capacity to recover, adapt, and perform.
People in Recovery
Rebuild capacity while living with or recovering from chronic conditions, illness, or other health setbacks—to regain function, expand what feels possible, and do more of what matters.
Everyday Resilience
Strengthen resilience and maintain capacity to stay active, handle everyday demands, and keep doing the things that support an independent and fulfilling life.
Athletes & Leaders
Grounded in expertise from Olympic sport and healthcare leadership, we help build the resilience, adaptability, and capacity to perform consistently, recover effectively, and stay capable under pressure.
Workforce
We work with organizations and teams to strengthen resilience and capacity, helping people navigate demands, recover effectively, and bring more of their capabilities to their work.
Did you ever wonder why two people with similar skills, preparation, and experience can perform very differently?
"Training, strategies, and everyday practices can be powerful. Strong brain-body systems can transform how those efforts translate into results."
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ThriveNinety
ThriveNinety helps people build the brain-body capacity behind how we recover, adapt, and perform—using practical, research-informed tools designed to create meaningful change through small, targeted inputs.
Founded by economist and healthcare leader Katie Brennan and Olympic Champion Andrea Henkel Burke, ThriveNinety brings together expertise from healthcare, human performance, and elite sport with lived experience of recovery from chronic illness. This combination shapes a whole-system approach that looks beyond individual symptoms, skills, or performance measures to the systems that support them.
Katie brings more than two decades of experience across healthcare, population health, economics, and behavioral science, including leadership work within the NHS and the U.S. healthcare system. Her own experience with Long COVID added a deeply personal understanding of what it means to rebuild capacity when established approaches alone are not enough.
Andrea brings decades of experience in elite sport, including four Olympic Games, two Olympic gold medals, and eight World Championship titles in Biathlon. Her work combines that performance experience with an understanding of the brain-body systems that influence movement, recovery, adaptability, and performance.
Together, we developed ThriveNinety to translate research, professional expertise, and lived experience into practical approaches people can use in everyday life.
Today, ThriveNinety works across recovery, everyday resilience, athletic and leadership performance, and workforce resilience - strengthening the underlying brain-body systems that help people get more from the training, strategies, and everyday practices they already use.
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