Leading Under Pressure (Downtown Chicago)
Leading Under Pressure
How Stress, Communication & Leadership Behaviors Shape Cybersecurity Team Performance
Green Shoe Consulting's Flagship Leadership
🔖 Reserve Your Seat
Thank you for your interest in Leading Under Pressure.
To preserve a highly interactive learning environment, each workshop is intentionally limited to 10 cybersecurity professionals.
Reserving your seat is a simple two-step process:
➡ Step 1 — Register Here on Luma
Click the Register button on this page to reserve your place.
There is no payment required during registration.
➡ Step 2 — Complete Payment
Within one business day, you'll receive a personal confirmation email from Steve Shelton with a secure Square payment link.
Workshop Fee: $450
Once payment is received, your registration will be confirmed and you'll receive:
✔ Calendar invitation
✔ Workshop logistics & parking information
✔ What to expect
✔ CPE information
✔ Pre-workshop details
Cybersecurity leaders spend years learning how to protect systems.
Very few are ever taught how to protect their own leadership capacity while operating under sustained pressure.
Leading Under Pressure is Green Shoe Consulting's flagship leadership workshop and part of our Monthly Leadership Series, designed exclusively for cybersecurity professionals who want to lead more intentionally, communicate more effectively, and sustain high performance throughout demanding careers.
This is not a stress management seminar.
This is an interactive leadership development experience built around the real operational challenges faced by cybersecurity managers, directors, deputy CISOs, and CISOs.
🎟 Registration Information
Workshop Fee
$450 per participant
Continuing Professional Education
4.0 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Credits
Attendance
Limited to 10 cybersecurity professionals
These workshops are intentionally limited to create meaningful discussion, personalized coaching, practical application, and peer learning.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for:
✔ Cybersecurity Managers
✔ Security Directors
✔ Deputy CISOs
✔ CISOs
✔ Experienced technical leaders preparing for leadership responsibilities
Because discussions are highly interactive and built around participants' real-world experiences, this workshop is not intended for cybersecurity vendors or sales professionals.
What You'll Learn
Throughout the workshop you'll learn how to:
• Recognize how sustained pressure affects leadership performance
• Identify Leadership Drift before it impacts your effectiveness
• Understand Human Mean Time to Recovery (H-MTTR)
• Reduce Leadership Friction within your team
• Strengthen psychological safety and communication
• Apply the Circle of Influence and Circle of Control during high-pressure situations
• Develop practical recovery strategies that support sustained high performance
• Build your own Leadership Operating System for continued growth
An Experiential Leadership Workshop
This is not a lecture.
Green Shoe workshops are designed around an experiential learning model.
Throughout the workshop you will:
✔ Complete guided leadership exercises
✔ Analyze real cybersecurity leadership scenarios
✔ Participate in facilitated small-group discussions
✔ Practice practical leadership frameworks
✔ Build your own Leadership Operating System
✔ Leave with tools you can begin using immediately
The goal is not simply to understand leadership.
The goal is to practice it.
What You'll Take Home
Each participant receives:
✔ Green Shoe Leadership Field Manual
✔ Personalized Leadership Operating System
✔ Practical recovery strategies
✔ Certificate of Completion
✔ 4.0 CPE Credits
What Participants Are Saying
"I wish I had this training 15 years ago. It would have helped me with so many things in my career."
"Most leadership training feels generic. Having all cybersecurity professionals in the room made this immediately relevant."
"We need more training like this. Being able to talk about what makes our jobs hard and how to navigate these things... we don't talk about these things."
About Green Shoe Consulting
Green Shoe Consulting teaches leaders how to intentionally build trust under pressure so people and organizations can sustain high performance.
Our work combines leadership development, performance psychology, and real-world cybersecurity experience to help leaders strengthen communication, accelerate recovery, and lead more effectively in demanding environments.
Reserve Your Seat
Attendance is intentionally limited to 10 professionals to preserve an engaging, discussion-based learning experience.
When the workshop reaches capacity, additional registrations will be placed on a waitlist.
We look forward to welcoming you to Green Shoe Consulting's Monthly Leadership Series and helping you build the leadership practices that sustain high performance under pressure.