My Team Is Overwhelmed. How Do I Lead Through Uncertainty?
A sensemaking session for managers caught between the push for speed and a team that's stretched thin.
I've been sitting with a lot of managers this year — in workshops, in coaching, in the conversations that happen after events. The same thing keeps coming up, in different words: everyone wants more from me right now. Leadership wants speed — AI, new tools, more output with the same people. The team wants clarity, a say, and a little more time. And the manager is in the middle, doing most of the deciding, most of the communicating, most of the steadying.
Some of your people are anxious. A few are pushing back. One or two have gone quiet in a way you've noticed but haven't found the moment to ask about. And if you're honest, some of the overwhelm is yours too. Most managers I meet have nowhere to say that out loud.
This session is a place to.
This is a 90-minute facilitated sensemaking session — not a lecture, not another presentation about managing change. A room of people with the same job you have, working with what's actually on your plate right now.
What we'll do together
Put down what you're carrying. Map what's landing on you from above, what's rising from below, and the part you never say at work.
Be heard without being fixed. In pairs — one person speaks, one reflects back. No advice. It's simple, and it changes something.
Read your team differently. Resistance is usually information — mixed feelings without a safe place to go. You'll map who's pushing back, who's gone quiet, who's quietly ahead of you, and what each of those might be protecting.
Practice the honest thing. Draft what you'd actually say to your team: what you know, what you don't, what won't change without them hearing it from you first. Say it out loud to a partner. Notice which sentence sounds like a press release — and find the truer one underneath.
Leave with one conversation you'll have in the next two weeks.
One reason the session looks like this: in the registration data from our last eight workshops — 361 people — managers were the only group where trust, resistance, and communication came up for more than half. And what managers asked for most wasn't a framework. It was time with peers in the same position. So that's what this is.
Who this is for
Middle managers and team leads in any function or industry.
Managers leading teams through AI rollouts, restructuring, new systems, fast growth, or priorities that keep shifting.
People leaders holding the team's worries while staying accountable for delivery.
Bring one real situation you're leading through. You won't need to share confidential details about your company or your people — what's said in the room stays in the room.
About InsightsOut
InsightsOut (https://insightsout.work) is a San Francisco company working on the human side of AI change and leadership.
For organizations: AI leadership alignment, and workshops for managers whose teams are stretched.
For people: community workshops, and coaching for founders and leaders on decision uncertainty, co-founder conflict, changing roles, and what should stay human.
One purpose underneath both: protecting and strengthening human agency and leadership during rapid change, backed by research built from what people share in these rooms.
Facilitated by Nima Imani
Nima is a founder and ICF-certified leadership coach working with founders, managers, and teams on uncertainty, hard decisions, and the human side of change, after more than a decade in tech including EY and Neo4j.
All workshops: https://insightsout.work/events
Coaching with Nima (book a free 30-minute call): https://insightsout.work/coaching