Resilience Training Built for Real Workloads

Stepping into leadership brings new responsibilities, pressures, and expectations. The habits leaders establish early influence how they manage stress, make decisions, build relationships, and affect the people around them.

Enduring Resilience for New Leaders is a two-day, interactive workshop that helps new supervisors, first-time managers, and emerging leaders strengthen their personal resilience while developing practical ways to lead others through pressure, uncertainty, and change.

Based on Dr. Michael Pettinelli’s book, Enduring Resilience: Living and Leading with Strength, Purpose, and Connection, the workshop brings together psychology, leadership experience, guided reflection, practical exercises, and workplace application. Participants examine what strengthens and depletes their resilience, how they respond when demands increase, and how their everyday behavior influences trust, connection, accountability, and performance.

The course addresses energy management, stress and recovery, emotional regulation, mindset, purpose, values, social connection, nature, accountability, boundaries, and sustainable performance. Participants also examine how their reactions, communication, expectations, and availability affect the people they lead.

The experience is interactive and reflective. Participants work through realistic leadership situations, learn from one another, and translate the course material into practical behaviors they can use in their daily work.

Intended outcomes

Participants leave better prepared to:

• Understand resilience as a capacity that can be strengthened through practice

• Recognize personal strengths, vulnerabilities, and signs of depletion

• Apply practical strategies for energy management, stress regulation, and recovery

• Increase emotional and psychological self-awareness

• Respond more intentionally during pressure, uncertainty, and change

• Practice accountability without relying on unproductive self-criticism

What participants receive

• Two full days of interactive instruction

• A copy of Enduring Resilience

• Guided reflection and personal resilience self-assessment

• Practical tools for managing energy, stress, and recovery

• Leadership exercises and realistic workplace scenarios

• Facilitated discussion and peer learning

• Strategies for emotional regulation and intentional decision-making

• Approaches for strengthening connection, trust, and accountability

• Guidance for establishing healthier boundaries and sustainable leadership practices

• An individualized Resilient Leadership Practice Plan

• One individual post-workshop coaching call