The Team

Practitioners from psychology, performance science, dietetics and medicine.

Prime Responder is a collaboration between practitioners from psychology, performance science, dietetics and medicine.

Glenn Little

Clinical Psychologist

B.AppSc (Hons), M.Psych (Clinical), MAPS

Clinical psychologist with 20 years across hospital, community, academic and emergency services settings. He has led a disaster recovery team and now leads our work on psychological readiness and sustainable performance.

Glenn is a clinical psychologist with 20 years across hospital, community health, academic and high-performance settings. He has led a disaster recovery team, worked extensively with emergency services, and holds senior roles as a clinical supervisor and university lecturer, with published research in occupational and health psychology.

His work with Prime Responder covers psychological readiness, trauma-informed practice and sustainable habits for people working under sustained pressure.

Richard Burrows

Performance Director

ASCA L1 · Oxygen Advantage · XPT Coach

Former counter-terrorism investigator turned performance coach for Olympic athletes and executives. Leads breathing, arousal control and recovery training.

Rich began his career in counter-terrorism investigations before moving into executive search and elite performance coaching. He works with Olympic athletes, national champions and senior executives, centring his approach on breathing mechanics, nervous system regulation and functional movement.

At Prime Responder he translates that physiology into practical drills for arousal control, recovery and repeatable performance on shift.

Nick Nation

Accredited Practising Dietitian

APD · Nutrition Nation

Accredited Practising Dietitian and national media contributor. Covers fuelling, hydration and gut health around rotating rosters.

Nick is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with more than a decade in private practice and a regular nutrition contributor to national media.

He presents scientifically backed insights on healthy nutritional habits for emergency and medical professionals, covering fuelling, hydration and gut health around rotating rosters, long jobs and limited station facilities.

Team members

General Practitioners

Primary care perspective on long-term health, career sustainability and the health picture across a career in emergency and medical services.

Physiotherapists

Education on physical conditioning, strength and movement in the context of driving demands, lifting and injury prevention on the job.

Sports Psychologists

The crossover between elite athletes and emergency services in managing high-pressure situations, using evidence-based techniques to promote optimal performance.

Lived experience in the team

Delivered alongside people who have worked in high pressure, clinical and emergency roles.

Training is delivered alongside people who have experience working in high pressure, clinical and emergency roles. Their perspective shapes how we teach, ensuring the training reflects the realities of the work.

How we work together

One integrated program — psychology, physiology and nutrition planned together.

Sessions are built and delivered as one integrated program. Psychology, physiology and nutrition are planned together, so what a crew learns about sleep, breathing, fuelling and mindful attention connects and carries across the job.

Partners

Built with practices across psychology, strength and breathing, nutrition and recovery.

Programs are developed with specialist practices across psychology, strength and breathing, nutrition and recovery.

Healthyside Psychology

Psychology

Resistance Lab

Strength & Breathing

Nutrition Nation

Nutrition