Durable About Durable
About the Firm

Performance that doesn’t expire.

Helping organizations build durable leadership and sustainable high-performance cultures.

Founder Rick Edgerton
Experience 20+ Years
Discipline Durability-First
The Founding Belief
Durable was founded on a simple belief: high performance should be sustainable.
The Story

The pattern, the proof, and the framework that followed.

For more than twenty years, I worked inside large organizations leading client success, building teams, and operating in the same high-pressure environments many leaders face today. During that time, I saw a consistent pattern: organizations push for performance, but very few know how to build systems that allow people to sustain that performance over time.

At the same time, outside of work, I spent a decade competing as a mountain ultra-runner. Endurance sports teach a fundamental truth that doesn’t transfer easily to a slide deck—but it transfers cleanly to how an organization actually performs.

Performance doesn’t come from intensity alone. It comes from durability.

Durability is what allows individuals and teams to withstand pressure, adapt, recover, and continue performing when conditions become difficult. The same principle applies inside organizations—and once you see it that way, you can’t unsee it.

That insight led me to develop the Durable Framework: a model that helps organizations understand and strengthen the factors that allow leaders and teams to perform at a high level without burning out. Through Durable Consulting, I work with leaders and organizations to assess pressure, identify burnout risk, and build cultures that support sustainable performance.

Where the Work Sits

Four disciplines. One operating principle.

The work sits at the intersection of leadership performance, workplace wellbeing, organizational culture, and sustainable high performance—treated as one connected system, not four separate functions.

Leadership Performance

How leaders hold capacity, judgment, and presence under sustained load—and where it breaks.

Workplace Wellbeing

Built as a system, not a perk. Wellbeing as a leading indicator of operational performance.

Organizational Culture

The cultural conditions that either compound or quietly erode the team’s ability to deliver.

Sustainable High Performance

Output that compounds over years—not output that costs the next quarter to recover from.

The Background

Two decades inside the pressure. One decade running through it.

The Durable thesis was forged at the intersection of two long-running experiments—one professional, one personal.

  • 20+ years inside large organizations. Leading client success, building teams, and operating under the same high-pressure conditions most leaders face today.
  • 10 years as a mountain ultra-runner. A decade of testing what actually allows the body and mind to sustain output across hours and elevation.
  • One consistent pattern. Performance lives or dies on durability—the engineered ability to withstand, adapt, recover, and continue.
The Framework

The Durable Framework: how we make sustainability rigorous.

A model that helps leaders and organizations understand and strengthen the factors that allow people to perform at a high level—without burning out.

  • Assess. Quantify leadership pressure, capacity, recovery, and the cultural environment around them.
  • Identify. Surface burnout risk and the specific failure points where performance is most likely to break.
  • Build. Design and deploy the cultures, systems, and recovery architectures that make sustainable performance the default.
The Goal

Help organizations build teams that perform, adapt, and endure.

Because performance that isn’t durable doesn’t last.

Curious whether Durable is the right fit?

Start with a no-obligation conversation. We’ll walk through your situation and tell you honestly whether a Diagnostic or Fractional engagement is the right next step—or whether it isn’t.