We all know what good leadership looks like.
Under stress and pressure, however, our capacity narrows, and we struggle to access our skills and our best selves.
Reactivity increases, and we slip into defensiveness, micromanagement, procrastination, perfectionism, and people-pleasing.
This program teaches you how to recognize signs of stress, dysregulation, and trauma in yourself, the people you work with, and the systems you’re part of, so you can work with your biology instead of against it.
Because if you can't regulate, you can't relate.
And if you can't relate, you can't lead.
Trauma-Informed Leadership is an 8-week program grounded in the science of how humans and leadership actually work—biologically, relationally, and systemically—so we can stay rooted in our best selves, connected to each other, and do the work we’re here to do without burning out the people who make it possible.
April 22 – June 10, 2025
Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET
Live or On-Demand | 8-Week Journey
Trauma isn't just what happens during crisis, it's what happens when stress feels chronic, inescapable, and overwhelming, with no pathway to recovery.
Workplaces today are structured around conditions that create traumatic stress: unrealistic deadlines, chronic understaffing, metrics that measure output over wellbeing, and cultures that treat burnout as an individual failing instead of a systemic design flaw.
Trauma-informed leadership addresses the neurobiology of stress and the systems that create it, so you can lead in ways that create capacity instead of depleting it.
This program is for leaders navigating high-pressure environments who need practical tools grounded in science.
It’s especially powerful for public health leaders, healthcare executives and practitioners, nonprofit directors, government employees, and the coaches and professionals who support them.
If you're leading through sustained pressure, or supporting those who are, this is for you.
Each week, you’ll learn and apply frameworks that change how you see leadership—and how you practice it.
The Biology of Leadership: Understand the neuroscience of stress and trauma, what it means to operate within your Window of Capacity, how to expand your window, and how body-aware leadership outperforms strategy every time.
The Mechanics of Choice Under Pressure: Learn proven methodologies for interrupting stress-induced reactivity, including the Conscious Pause, a three-second practice that increases access to executive functioning.
The Relational Field: Recognize your nervous systems’s impact on the relational field and master the invisible architecture of leadership, shaping what becomes possible through the Regulation Ripple Effect.
The Architecture of Power and Pressure: Recognize the Protection Patterns that arise in yourself and others under stress. Practice interrupting and re-patterning intentionally, with choice, compassion, and dignity.
The Seductive Logic of False Forwards: Distinguish between choices that look like effective leadership and choices that actually are. Recognize seductive strategies that make things more stressful for everyone, including you.
The Practice of Grounded Agility: Master steadfast flexibility, and decision-making rooted in values when crises and pressure demand urgent pivots. Increase adaptive capacity without destabilizing yourself and your team.
The Evolution of Leadership Consciousness: Identify leadership strategies you were taught and inherited, determine which were shaped by others’ survival strategies, and author your own approach and philosophy.
The Institutionalization of Humanity: Embed safety, repair, and dignity into systems through intentional design, building trauma-informed principles into policies, practices, and norms so humanity becomes infrastructure.
The Cultivation of Emergent, Regenerative Futures: Move beyond sustainability, and practice visionary, regenerative design principles that create conditions for thriving.
Live Trainings: Wednesdays at noon EST
Program Dates: April 22 – June 10, 2026
Attend live or watch recorded workshops on-demand.
Designed for leaders navigating uncertainty, complexity, crisis, and chaos.
Learn the tools, frameworks, and skills to regulate yourself, support your team, and steward cultures of resilience and impact.
Solidarity Rate - $1500
Standard Rate - $1250
Group Rate - 15% off groups of 5+ - Contact us for details
Sharon Podobnik, MSEd, PCC is a Harvard-trained trauma-informed executive coach and the creator of the Trauma Informed Leadership System.
She works at the intersection of nervous system science, somatics, and systems thinking, integrating the science of trauma and regulation with a clear-eyed understanding of power, culture, and the structural forces that shape how people lead.
She’s guided hundreds of leaders at organizations like the CDC, FDA, TFA, USAID, Lyft, Ferrara, Starbucks, Alaska Air, and more to lead well, drive impact, and create the future they wish to see.
We all know what good leadership looks like.
Under stress and pressure, however, our capacity narrows, and we struggle to access our skills and our best selves.
Reactivity increases, and we slip into defensiveness, micromanagement, procrastination, perfectionism, and people-pleasing.
This program teaches you how to recognize signs of stress, dysregulation, and trauma in yourself, the people you work with, and the systems you’re part of, so you can work with your biology instead of against it.
Because if you can't regulate, you can't relate.
And if you can't relate, you can't lead.
Trauma-Informed Leadership is an 8-week program grounded in the science of how humans and leadership actually work—biologically, relationally, and systemically—so we can stay rooted in our best selves, connected to each other, and do the work we’re here to do without burning out the people who make it possible.
April 22 – June 10, 2025
Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET
Live or On-Demand | 8-Week Journey
Trauma isn't just what happens during crisis, it's what happens when stress feels chronic, inescapable, and overwhelming, with no pathway to recovery.
Workplaces today are structured around conditions that create traumatic stress: unrealistic deadlines, chronic understaffing, metrics that measure output over wellbeing, and cultures that treat burnout as an individual failing instead of a systemic design flaw.
Trauma-informed leadership addresses the neurobiology of stress and the systems that create it, so you can lead in ways that create capacity instead of depleting it.
This program is for leaders navigating high-pressure environments who need practical tools grounded in science.
It’s especially powerful for public health leaders, healthcare executives and practitioners, nonprofit directors, government employees, and the coaches and professionals who support them.
If you're leading through sustained pressure, or supporting those who are, this is for you.
Each week, you’ll learn and apply frameworks that change how you see leadership—and how you practice it.
The Biology of Leadership: Understand the neuroscience of stress and trauma, what it means to operate within your Window of Capacity, how to expand your window, and how body-aware leadership outperforms strategy every time.
The Mechanics of Choice Under Pressure: Learn proven methodologies for interrupting stress-induced reactivity, including the Conscious Pause, a three-second practice that increases access to executive functioning.
The Relational Field: Recognize your nervous systems’s impact on the relational field and master the invisible architecture of leadership, shaping what becomes possible through the Regulation Ripple Effect.
The Architecture of Power and Pressure: Recognize the Protection Patterns that arise in yourself and others under stress. Practice interrupting and re-patterning intentionally, with choice, compassion, and dignity.
The Seductive Logic of False Forwards: Distinguish between choices that look like effective leadership and choices that actually are. Recognize seductive strategies that make things more stressful for everyone, including you.
The Practice of Grounded Agility: Master steadfast flexibility, and decision-making rooted in values when crises and pressure demand urgent pivots. Increase adaptive capacity without destabilizing yourself and your team.
The Evolution of Leadership Consciousness: Identify leadership strategies you were taught and inherited, determine which were shaped by others’ survival strategies, and author your own approach and philosophy.
The Institutionalization of Humanity: Embed safety, repair, and dignity into systems through intentional design, building trauma-informed principles into policies, practices, and norms so humanity becomes infrastructure.
The Cultivation of Emergent, Regenerative Futures: Move beyond sustainability, and practice visionary, regenerative design principles that create conditions for thriving.
Live Trainings: Wednesdays at noon EST
Program Dates: April 22 – June 10, 2026
Attend live or watch recorded workshops on-demand.
Designed for leaders navigating uncertainty, complexity, crisis, and chaos.
Learn the tools, frameworks, and skills to regulate yourself, support your team, and steward cultures of resilience and impact.
Solidarity Rate - $1500
Standard Rate - $1250
Group Rate - 15% off groups of 5+ - Contact us for details
Sharon Podobnik, MSEd, PCC is a Harvard-trained trauma-informed executive coach and the creator of the Trauma Informed Leadership System.
She works at the intersection of nervous system science, somatics, and systems thinking, integrating the science of trauma and regulation with a clear-eyed understanding of power, culture, and the structural forces that shape how people lead.
She’s guided hundreds of leaders at organizations like the CDC, FDA, TFA, USAID, Lyft, Ferrara, Starbucks, Alaska Air, and more to lead well, drive impact, and create the future they wish to see.
