Communications and Leadership Learning – Thursday, October 30
Pressure-Proof: How to Build a Resilient Mindset for Professional and Personal Success
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Pressure reveals our patterns — but it doesn’t have to define us. In this session, you’ll learn how to spot your default response to stress and how it may be limiting your performance. You’ll learn how strengths can become blind spots and why even high performers can sabotage their own success. You’ll learn how to build a resilient mindset to stay focused, quiet your inner critic, and lead with clarity whether you’re managing a team, or balancing life’s demands.
Speakers
Monica Chang
Monica Chang is a Certified Executive Coach who helps leaders lead with clarity, build resilience, and succeed—without burning out. With 25 years in leadership development, she has trained over 1,000 leaders and coached professionals from mid-level managers to C-suite executives. Monica takes a whole-person approach, helping leaders strengthen their mindset and emotional agility so they can lead effectively at work and at home. Her neuroscience-backed methods support sustainable performance and high-impact leadership. Her motto: Master your leadership, transform your life.
Power, Influence, and Persuasion
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Skilled negotiators deploy power, influence, and persuasion (PIP) techniques daily. These techniques are powerful, and science based. They do not require coercion, intimidation or hierarchical authority. They simply require strategic deployment. Once deployed on the unsuspecting target, the brain is triggered, and a quick “yes” is procured. That quick yes is a missed opportunity for MORE. This session is built around a mutually beneficial mindset. We do not support manipulation. We support creating MORE together. More confidence. More trust. More opportunity. More value. Learning objectives include the development and delivery of tools on how to deploy PIP strategically. These tools can defend against unethical manipulators, while also paving the path to creating MORE internally, or externally.
Speakers
Joanna Shea
Joanna Shea is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Negotiations Collective, bringing 24 years of experience in negotiations across the natural resource, utilities, infrastructure, healthcare, and education sectors. She has led over $2B in acquisitions, divestitures, and complex contracts, and negotiated agreements supporting more than $1B in capital projects across Canada and the U.S. Known for her strategic focus and calm under pressure, Joanna has held senior leadership roles in commercial negotiations, project management, and organizational restructuring. She has served as a Board Director and President of national professional and volunteer organizations and currently sits on the Alberta Cancer Foundation’s Breakthrough Fund. Joanna holds a Bachelor of Commerce from St. Francis Xavier University, is a graduate of British Petroleum’s Conflict and Negotiations Program, and earned graduate certificates in Project Leadership (Cornell University) and Negotiation Mastery (Harvard Business School).
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