Lead Through Disruption:
Navigate Turbulent Times with Tenacity
Master Disruption and Reclaim Your Confidence
If you’re feeling the strain of today’s relentless pace—out of control, overwhelmed, or less impactful than before—this program will enable you to regain clarity, harness critical insights, and master the art of leading through disruption.
Leading Through Disruption program offers seasoned leaders advanced, disruptive tools specifically designed to thrive amid unpredictability and drive meaningful change.
Grounded in cutting-edge leadership development and neurobiology, the Leading Through Disruption program will not only fortify your individual capabilities but also to elevate your team and organization, cultivating a culture of innovation and adaptability.
Master
Disruption
Use strategic, science-backed tools to navigate ongoing disruption and lead with confidence, turning challenges into opportunities for growth.
Create
Transformation
Drive meaningful change by building tenacity and empowering your team to thrive, even in the face of complex challenges.
Reset the
Playing Field
Give your team a fresh start, resetting with renewed energy and focus to tackle challenges with vigor.
Create Engaged,
Innovative Teams
Foster a culture where your team feels empowered to innovate, collaborate, and stay engaged, even in times of uncertainty.
Transform Disruption into Exponential Growth
The world is moving faster than ever. Disruption is the new normal. You've likely felt the strain: the endless meetings, the constant pivots, the draining energy. It's enough to make even the most seasoned leader question their capabilities.
But you're not alone.
Countless leaders are grappling with these same challenges. The good news? There's a way to not just survive, but thrive in this turbulent landscape.
At the Tenacious Leadership Institute, we've helped thousands of leaders like you navigate complexity and emerge stronger. We’ve worked with leaders at organizations like Adobe, Amazon, Chase, DHL, Microsoft, NASA and Stanford University.
Our proven approach combines cutting-edge science and practical strategies to help you:
Master the art of adaptability
Ignite your team's potential
Drive innovation
Achieve extraordinary results
Ready to reclaim your leadership? Let's work together to transform challenges into opportunities.
The Becoming a Tenacious Leader Advantage
Our hybrid program offers the flexibility to learn at your own pace, while providing practical tools and strategies you can implement immediately.
No more sacrificing your busy schedule.
Experience the power of personalized learning, coupled with real-world application.
Receive science-based tools to lead through uncertainty and disruption.
Build tightly aligned, tenacious teams to navigate complex change.
Understand how to generate innovation even in the face of adversity.
Step out of the leadership grind and work in a more sustainable way.
Registration
Lead Through Disruption:
Navigate Turbulent Times with Tenacity
This transformative program is designed to equip you with the tools and strategies to navigate disruption, inspire your team and drive innovation.
Learn how to leverage disruption as an opportunity for growth and development as you build next-level leadership tenacity.
Based on cutting-edge leadership development and neurobiology research, this online immersive experience includes: four online learning modules, the Becoming a Tenacious Leader Toolkit, a Mastering Disruption Roadmap, Leadership Assessment, Digital Journal and Q&A Sessions to get your questions answered.
Elevate your leadership to achieve extraordinary results.
$2,495.00
$4,495.00
*Register up to 10 leaders.
*Register 10 or more leaders.
What Our Clients Say
“TLI’s programs get to the root of the issue rapidly. Their work has changed my life. I highly recommend TLI and Athena for anybody seeking to further themselves in their leadership core.”
Service Design Director, NCR Corporation
“Athena is an absolute professional, her expertise and pragmatism delivers results. The facilitation she did with my team hit the mark, all of the messages could be digested by a diverse team.”
General Manager IT, AMP
“TLI developed, communicated and led the implementation of a senior leadership programme..it was well structured and delivered excellent value to leadership colleagues.”
Deputy Chief Executive, NZ Earthquake Commission
Who The Program Is For?
The Lead Through Disruption program is designed for experienced leaders who are navigating the complexities of leading teams through transformative growth.
Are you:
Leading high stakes initiatives (that could make or break your career)
Navigating organizational restructuring (again and again)
Being asked to scale growth (before the company is ready)
Asked to be more innovative (unfortunately your team is exhausted)
Ready to work in more sustainable ways (but you don’t have the tools)
Tired of sacrificing your well-being and quality of life (it’s too often)
Unlock the Power to Lead with Tenacity and Drive Lasting Impact
Module 1
Overcoming the Leadership
Grind of Disruption
Is This You?
It’s 5:00 AM, and you’re up early for an overseas call. The imminent grind of the day is already setting in, and instead of feeling prepared, you’re upset about having to join the meeting. As the call progresses, you find yourself becoming edgy, interrupting others unintentionally.
The meeting ends without resolution and you feel frustrated—another day where progress feels like a moving target. Every time you think you’ve gained ground, something shifts: a new strategy, a new product, a new market. You used to think of yourself as tenacious, but now you’re fed up. By the time your busy day is done and you get home, you’re venting to your partner, feeling disengaged and exhausted.
You know you have to keep going, but it’s getting harder to cope.
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How This Module Will Help
In Module 1, you’ll learn how leadership tenacity helps you be more present, focused and stronger, even when everything seems to be working against you. You’ll discover the essential aspects of next-level leadership tenacity that will keep you engaged and productive, even when the challenges seem overwhelming.
We’ll teach you the steps to shift from a “leadership grind mindset” to a “leadership tenacious mindset” when things look impossible, letting you regain control and move forward with clarity. Through science-based practices, you’ll develop the tools to self-regulate, refocus, and maintain your leadership edge—even when you feel like everything is spinning out of control.
Topics That Will Allow You to Build Next-Level Leadership Tenacity
Understand how leadership tenacity helps you become stronger so you can skillfully handle adversity
Learn the key aspects of next-level leadership tenacity to stay engaged and be productive (even when it’s hard)
Identify the steps to quickly shift from a “leadership grind mindset” to a “tenacious leadership mindset” when things look impossible
Use the TLI Next Level Tenacity Practices to self-regulate, refocus and regain control when you are “in the grind”
Module 2
Transform Disruption and Pressure
Into Power
Is This You?
You spent last year building up a strong, capable team to meet customer needs and organizational goals, and now you’re being told to break up that team—not once, not twice, but three times in the same year. The first two rounds were tough, but this third cut will leave you with a skeleton crew, making it nearly impossible for everyone to handle the workload.
The relentless pressure is starting to affect your mental and physical health, and it’s hard to watch your colleagues be impacted. You’re worried about your own future, and you know you need new tools to manage the mounting pressure.
You feel like you’re going to break at any moment.
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How This Module Will Help
In Module 2, you’ll learn to transform the way your brain and body respond to high-pressure situations. Drawing on cutting-edge insights from neuroscience and neurobiology, this module will show you how to harness the natural processes of your brain to shift from reactive, stress-driven responses to focused, strategic thinking.
We’ll start by helping you understand the difference between “bad pressure” that triggers a stress response and “good pressure” that fuels strong performance. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to navigate high-stakes situations—like last-minute presentations or team reductions—without succumbing to overwhelm.
You’ll identify the critical areas of your performance that need optimizing, using neuroscience-based techniques to build resilience and buffer yourself from the harmful effects of chronic stress.
Topics That Will Allow You to Build Next-Level Leadership Tenacity
Understand the science behind pressure and how to use it to your advantage (and why many leaders miss it)
Quickly identify between “bad pressure” and “good pressure” to better navigate the disruption and complex change
Learn about the TLI Pressure Spiral so you can be more effective in less time when you are under pressure
Build your own Tenacious Leadership Pressure Playbook to reduce overwhelm, minimize frustration and accelerate your performance
Module 3
Building Leadership Tenacity with
New Standards and Boundaries
Is This You?
You have a key stakeholder who is disruptive and disrespectful to your team. While your priority is to keep them happy and deliver on your commitments, their behavior crosses a line, harming the positive culture you're striving to create. Despite your efforts to set boundaries, they continue to undermine your team, leaving you frustrated and unsure of how to maintain tenacity in the face of their actions.
They seem to enjoy pushing your team’s buttons, and you invariably leave meetings feeling exhausted and annoyed. You want to set new standards for these interactions—shifting from conflict to constructive problem-solving—but you hesitate, fearing potential repercussions, especially when they’ve previously hinted at replacing you.
You know that you and your team deserve better treatment.
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How This Module Will Help
In Module 2, you’ll learn to transform the way your brain and body respond to high-pressure situations. Drawing on cutting-edge insights from neuroscience and neurobiology, this module will show you how to harness the natural processes of your brain to shift from reactive, stress-driven responses to focused, strategic thinking.
We’ll start by helping you understand the difference between “bad pressure” that triggers a stress response and “good pressure” that fuels strong performance. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to navigate high-stakes situations—like last-minute presentations or team reductions—without succumbing to overwhelm.
You’ll identify the critical areas of your performance that need optimizing, using neuroscience-based techniques to build resilience and buffer yourself from the harmful effects of chronic stress.
Topics That Will Allow You to Build Next-Level Leadership Tenacity
Understand the science behind pressure and how to use it to your advantage (and why many leaders miss it)
Quickly identify between “bad pressure” and “good pressure” to better navigate the disruption and complex change
Learn about the TLI Pressure Spiral so you can be more effective in less time when you are under pressure
Build your own Tenacious Leadership Pressure Playbook to reduce overwhelm, minimize frustration and accelerate your performance
Module 4
Optimize Your Leadership
to Master Disruption
Is This You?
You know you're not operating at the level of performance you want. Despite your best efforts, it feels like you have one foot on the gas and the other on the brake. The stress, pressure, and constant change make it impossible to feel like you and your team are reaching your full potential. You’ve seen others perform at their best, and while the idea of optimizing your leadership sounds appealing, you're skeptical that it's even possible in your current situation.
At the same time, you’re exhausted by ongoing disruption—shifting priorities, market changes, and organizational restructuring. You understand that good can come from change, but right now, it feels overwhelming. You’re struggling to motivate your team, manage your commitments, and stay positive through the constant turbulence. You want to be the transformative leader you know you can be, but getting there seems out of reach.
You don’t know how much longer you can hold on.
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How This Module Will Help
In Module 2, you’ll learn to transform the way your brain and body respond to high-pressure situations. Drawing on cutting-edge insights from neuroscience and neurobiology, this module will show you how to harness the natural processes of your brain to shift from reactive, stress-driven responses to focused, strategic thinking.
We’ll start by helping you understand the difference between “bad pressure” that triggers a stress response and “good pressure” that fuels strong performance. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to navigate high-stakes situations—like last-minute presentations or team reductions—without succumbing to overwhelm.
You’ll identify the critical areas of your performance that need optimizing, using neuroscience-based techniques to build resilience and buffer yourself from the harmful effects of chronic stress.
Topics That Will Allow You to Build Next-Level Leadership Tenacity
Understand the science behind pressure and how to use it to your advantage (and why many leaders miss it)
Quickly identify between “bad pressure” and “good pressure” to better navigate the disruption and complex change
Learn about the TLI Pressure Spiral so you can be more effective in less time when you are under pressure
Build your own Tenacious Leadership Pressure Playbook to reduce overwhelm, minimize frustration and accelerate your performance
Lead Through Disruption:
Navigate Turbulent Times with Tenacity
A Program Designed by Leaders, For Leaders
Four Immersive Learning Modules
Deepen your understanding of leadership in a disrupted world. Gain practical tools and strategies to navigate complexity, drive innovation and master disruption
Becoming a Tenacious Leader Toolkit
Access the online toolkit of strategies, tools and practices to quickly build your leadership capacity. These proven leadership resources have been used by Fortune 500 executives navigating disruption.
Becoming a Tenacious Leader Assessment
Get personalized insights into your strengths, blind spots and areas of untapped potential. Understand your own leadership patterns to identify the areas that need optimization so you can buffer yourself from disruption.
Mastering Disruption Roadmap
Gain actionable insights through the modules then build your personalized roadmap to apply all of the strategies and practices in the program to transform disruption into growth.
Becoming a Tenacious Leader Digital Journal
Use your digital journal to reflect on your progress, set goals, and track your growth as a tenacious leader. This powerful tool will help you unlock your full potential and achieve lasting success.
Q&A Sessions
You can submit your questions directly to the facilitator using our live, interactive Q&A sessions (held twice per month) or send them privately, via our private, confidential Question Hotline tool.
Results Our Programs Create
At the Tenacious Leadership Institute, we've helped over 83,000 leaders at top organizations like Adobe, Amazon, Bank of America, Genentech, Siemens and Stanford University navigate complex challenges and achieve extraordinary results.
Our clients often face daunting challenges, such as:
Implementing complex strategic changes across diverse teams
Leading high-stakes organizational transformations
Navigating global team collaboration complexities
Here are a few examples of results our clients generate:
Global Logistics
Company
Approval of a $24M warehouse expansion, increased productivity by 35%, and a 3X boost in key performers’ sales.
Leading High-Tech
Company
Improved team productivity by 20%, enhanced collaboration, and achieved annual cost savings of $848,000.
National
Bank
Accelerated strategic plan approval, launched a new product in six months, and boosted employee engagement by 18%.
Your Facilitator
Athena Williams, Founder and CEO of Tenacious Leadership Institute, has been supporting leaders worldwide to become more tenacious for over 20 years.
She has found that tenacity is the key to sustained leadership success in today’s ever-changing world.
Through her coaching and leadership development programs, she helps leaders expertly handle change, complexity, and other challenges so they can quickly get better results for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.
Registration
Lead Through Disruption:
Navigate Turbulent Times with Tenacity
This transformative program is designed to equip you with the tools and strategies to navigate disruption, inspire your team and drive innovation.
Learn how to leverage disruption as an opportunity for growth and development as you build next-level leadership tenacity.
Based on cutting-edge leadership development and neurobiology research, this online immersive experience includes: four online learning modules, the Becoming a Tenacious Leader Toolkit, a Mastering Disruption Roadmap, Leadership Assessment, Digital Journal and Q&A Sessions to get your questions answered.
Elevate your leadership to achieve extraordinary results.
$2,495.00
$4,495.00
*Register up to 10 leaders.
*Register 10 or more leaders.
Everything You Need to Know About This Revolutionary Leadership Development Program
This program offers you tools, practices and specific guidance to help shift your leadership approach. You’ll learn how to overcome today’s leadership challenges, take on new responsibilities, lead your team to higher engagement and better results, and help produce sustainable change in your organization–without burning out.
When you take this course, you’ll receive information, materials, and support to help elevate your and your team’s performance. Here is everything you get in the program:
The TLI Leadership Tenacity Assessment
4 Action-Oriented Self-Paced Modules
2 Q&A Sessions (Optional but Recommended)
Becoming a Tenacious Leader Toolkit
90-Day Next-Level Tenacity Roadmap and Journal to Track Progress
Set of Proven Neurobiology-Based Leadership Practices, Used by Fortune 500 CEOs
You’ll receive many benefits in this program. The four key ones are that you’ll learn to:
Master Disruption
Create Transformation
Reset the Playing Field
Create Engaged, Innovative Teams
The program is designed for executive leaders at large global organizations who are dealing with disruptive change, ongoing uncertainty, and other challenges and are looking to improve their own performance and results as well as those of their teams and organizations.
Once you register for the program, you’ll receive instructions via email on how to access your digital materials and the platform that will be used in the program. All materials for this program are digital.
Yes, you can take this program at your own pace. We generally advise that you complete one module per week, consecutively, to ensure an optimum learning experience.
The only prerequisite for this program is that you are currently in a leadership role in your organization. The content and materials provided are designed for high-performance executive leaders and those looking to reach new levels of performance.
Yes. There are a limited number of spots in this program each time it is offered. As such, we encourage you to register early to reserve your seat.
Yes. Please schedule a call with us so we can discuss your specific needs and goals.
Contact us to discuss.
Registration
Lead Through Disruption:
Navigate Turbulent Times with Tenacity
This transformative program is designed to equip you with the tools and strategies to navigate disruption, inspire your team and drive innovation.
Learn how to leverage disruption as an opportunity for growth and development as you build next-level leadership tenacity.
Based on cutting-edge leadership development and neurobiology research, this online immersive experience includes: four online learning modules, the Becoming a Tenacious Leader Toolkit, a Mastering Disruption Roadmap, Leadership Assessment, Digital Journal and Q&A Sessions to get your questions answered.
Elevate your leadership to achieve extraordinary results.
$2,495.00
$4,495.00
*Register up to 10 leaders.
*Register 10 or more leaders.