Trauma Informed Leadership: Build psychological & physiological safety to reduce reactivity, strengthen trust & sustain performance.

About this event

Trauma Informed Leadership: Build psychological & physiological safety to reduce reactivity, strengthen trust & sustain performance.

In today’s high-pressure organisational environments, leaders are expected to sustain performance while navigating constant change, complexity and human strain. This webinar explores why Trauma Informed Leadership is no longer optional in demanding systems and how both psychological and physiological safety form the foundation of sustainable success.

When leaders understand how stress impacts the nervous system, behaviour and decision-making, they are better equipped to reduce reactivity, increase clarity and lead with steady authority under pressure.

We examine how organisations can move beyond surface-level wellbeing initiatives and instead build cultures where people feel safe in their bodies as well as in their voices. Because when physiological safety and psychological safety are secured together, stability increases, trust strengthens and performance becomes sustainable rather than fragile.


About the speaker

Caroline Strawson

Caroline Strawson PG Cert Applied Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology CMgr CCMI, Hay House author is an award-winning female founder and business owner and has built three multi million pound businesses from scratch in her mid-forties including Tidal Global, a CMI Centre, and The Mental Wellbeing Company, the UKs fastest growing franchise.

Fuelled by resilience after experiencing domestic abuse and homelessness, Caroline is a passionate advocate for physiologically and psychologically safe workplaces, she knows that behind leader and manager is a human being with personal stories of survival, strength and growth.

Caroline is the creator of the world’s first CMI Level 7 Strategic Management & Leadership Diploma in Trauma Informed Coaching & Leadership, blending cutting-edge neuroscience with practical leadership tools with a mission to create more trauma informed human centric leaders. Her trauma informed leadership trainings build physiological and psychological safety to stabile organisations and her positive psychology trainings support optimisation because you can't optimise what does not feel safe.

With a social media following of over half a million, she empowers leaders and teams to unlock their true potential and create cultures where both people and performance can thrive increasing performance, productivity and profitability.


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