Description

Build the mental fitness and emotional regulation skills needed to lead with clarity in high-stakes environments

Who Should Attend

Post-secondary people leaders navigating change, complexity, and emotionally charged environments.

Leaders across the post-secondary sector are navigating increasing complexity—funding shifts, organizational change, layoffs, and heightened labour challenges. In these environments, it’s not enough to know what to say during difficult conversations—leaders must also manage how they show up.

This session focuses on a critical and often overlooked leadership skill: the ability to stay grounded, composed, and effective under pressure.

What Participants Will Learn

Regulate the Stress Response

• Understand how stress impacts thinking, behaviour, and communication
• Recognize early signs of emotional escalation
• Apply a simple, practical reset tool to regain composure in the moment

Build Mental Fitness

• Strengthen focus, clarity, and emotional control through short, repeatable practices
• Shift from reactive thinking to intentional, grounded leadership
• Develop habits that support resilience in day-to-day work

Lead with Calm and Confidence

• Model steady, grounded leadership in times of change
• Support others without becoming overwhelmed
• Navigate high-stakes conversations with greater confidence and control

This highly interactive 3-hour virtual session is designed for immediate application:

• Foundations: Key concepts in stress, resilience, and mental fitness
• Practice: Real-time exercises, scenarios, and guided application
• Integration: Reflection and planning to apply learning in the workplace

Participants actively engage throughout, ensuring they leave not just with insights—but with tools they can use right away.

What Participants Take Away

• A practical 3-step tool to manage stress in the moment
• Daily mental fitness practices (2–5 minutes)
• Increased awareness of personal stress patterns
• Strategies to lead effectively during challenging situations

Facilitator(s): 

Joshua Froc, BSc. Bioc, CPQC

Josh founded and grew a 6-figure coaching business helping great leaders become even better, starting with re-learning how to lead themselves. Josh teaches leaders to build the kind of presence that moves rooms, even after they are gone. He has skills in communication, human behaviour, leadership and mindfulness. He’s been a speaker and content creator for Work to Wellness since 2021. Josh has a gift for hearing what is really important to people, and what makes them special in just a few minutes.

Diana Vissers, MA (Disability Management), RRP. 

Diane is the founder of Work to Wellness, is a workplace mental health thought leader. Solving workplace mental health problems for 30 years inspires her to create upstream solutions that almost always include education. Diana has addressed industry-specific psychological risks in education, construction, transportation, health care, first responder communities, and social services. She is also a Certified Psychological Health and Safety Advisor. Diana designs workplace mental health workshops and delivered the first university level course in workplace wellness (psychological safety) for the Occupational Health and Safety and Rehab and Disability Management programs at Simon Fraser University.