Your Hidden Edge: Nervous System 101 for Entrepreneurs
Leaders and entrepreneurs are under constant pressure and stress - especially, when meeting deadlines, making high-stakes decisions and adapting to continuous change and uncertainty. The demands of scaling a business, managing a team, securing funding, while also juggling multiple personal and family priorities can take its toll.
Chronic stress doesn't just live in the background - it directly affects performance. It shows up as poor decision-making, creative fatigue, strained relationships, and low morale that can lead to mental exhaustion and physical breakdown. We know this terrain because we’ve lived it too.
In this short workshop, we’ll explore the hidden impact of stress and trauma on leaders, teams, and organizations. We’ll share the basics to help you understand how the human nervous system works, how it adapts to stress and why chronic dysregulation can silently sabotage even the most ambitious goals.
In this interactive session, you’ll learn:
- The basics of how stress and trauma impact the body and mind
- How to recognize signs of nervous system dysregulation in yourself and others
- Simple, accessible practices to help you create a more balanced state and optimize nervous system
- Why self-awareness is your greatest leadership asset and how to strengthen it
- The power of micro and macro approaches to fostering adaptability and resilience
We will also have local entrepreneurs sharing short personal stories on stress, nervous system and mental health: Scott Simpson (Fmr CFO @ Hummingbird Health), Michael Szewczyk (Co-Founder @ Okkanti), Sarah Giencke (Founder of Riset Resiliency) and Jen Anderson (CEO and Founder of Resilience LLC).
You can expect valuable learning and the opportunity to experience several micro practices for regulating your nervous system. You’ll walk away with practical tools to better manage your energy, stay focused and grounded under pressure, and lead with more clarity and purpose.
Lead by Sarah Giencke & Jen Anderson:
Sarah Giencke is a TRE® & Resilience Coach (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises). She is the Founder of Riset Resiliency, a wellness consultancy on a mission to reduce suffering in the workplace. Through her work, she helps people reclaim power and balance over their nervous systems so that they can live less stressful and more peaceful lives. Having an intimate relationship to trauma, Sarah deeply understands the connection between the body's trauma response and adverse life effects. Sarah places an emphasis on building safety with her clients, while helping them gain self-agency & self-awareness. Sarah is one of Culture Amp’s Top 25 Emerging Culture Creators in Wellness of 2024 and is also the co-lead for the Global Trauma Chapter.
Jennifer Anderson, MS is a recognized thought leader on transformation and organizational change, inspiring leaders to execute strategy with clarity, focus and resilience. As a consultant and executive coach, she guides organizations to adapt and thrive by developing conscious leaders to create high-performing teams and intentional, human-centered culture.
With a background in organizational behavior and extensive experience as a mind-body practitioner, Jennifer brings a unique blend of science and wisdom to her work. She is the CEO and Founder of Resilience, LLC, a Senior Advisor with FarWell, and holds multiple certifications, including as Co-Active Coach, Be Well Lead Well Pulse®, ProSci®, and a Mind-Body Practitioner.