Leadership Development

From Cocktails to Mocktails

Navigating Work Events as a Sober or Sober-Curious Professional

Planning corporate events in an inclusive way, particularly as alcohol use is being scrutinized – and navigating important workplace events with confidence and ease as a sober or sober-curious professional can be a challenge. This workshop helps both event planners and attendees fully enjoy these events while honoring alcohol and alcohol-free lifestyles. You’ll:

• Practice strategies for thriving in work events without alcohol

• Learn how to set boundaries with grace

• Gain confidence navigating social situations

• Plan inclusive events for all of your attendees without relying on the old standby of wine and beer

This workshop is designed specifically for anyone planning, managing, or attending professional events where alcohol may not be part of your lifestyle or appropriate for all of your attendees.

Leading Through Fire

A Three-Part Workshop Series for Leaders Navigating Uncertainty

Are you leading a team through unprecedented market instability, layoffs, or business contraction? This crisis leadership workshop series helps you sustain yourself and your team when everything feels impossible.

Over three interactive 60-minute sessions, you'll learn:

• Evidence-based resilience practices that actually work for busy leaders

• How to communicate difficult truths while maintaining hope and vision

• Core Strengths framework for understanding what motivates diverse team members

• Strategies for building team cultures that bend without breaking

• Embodied leadership techniques for staying grounded under pressure

Unlike traditional leadership training, this workshop combines practical tools, peer support, and somatic practices to help you lead with both strength and humanity during times of ongoing change, uncertainty, and crisis.

Perfect for: Tech executives, engineering managers, product leaders, and anyone managing teams through uncertainty, downsizing, or rapid change.

Format: Three lunch-and-learn sessions (in-person or virtual)

Includes: Interactive workbooks, reference materials, peer accountability partnerships

Stop leading from empty. Learn to tend your fire while tending to your team.

Creating a Trusted Culture for Growth and Innovation

This 6-hour highly interactive workshop leverages Crucial Learning's Core Strengths platform and the Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) to help teams understand how individual motivational patterns drive behavior, especially during conflict and change. Through the SDI assessment and facilitated exercises, teams gain actionable insights into why conflicts emerge, how to navigate disagreements productively, and how to harness diverse perspectives for stronger business outcomes. The workshop creates a shared language and framework for building psychological safety while maintaining high performance standards..

Key Outcomes

• Understanding of personal and team motivational patterns

• Tools for converting conflict into collaborative innovation

• Strategies for leveraging diverse thinking styles

• Enhanced communication skills for high-stakes conversations

• A roadmap for sustaining trust during periods of rapid growth

Perfect for organizational offsites,  leadership teams, project groups, and organizations navigating change, mergers, or scaling challenges where trust & collaboration are essential for success.

• Empowers leaders with relationship intelligence tools

• Reduces conflict costs estimated at $8,000 per employee annually

• Increases team productivity by 35% through improved communication