Navigating Pressure, Building Trust, Sustaining Growth and Innovation
Our colleagues Shannon Litzenberger, Mairead Filgate and their collaborators Pravin Rodrigues of Espera Capital and Veronica Escalantes from The SHARE Foundation are offering a full-day immersive experience for founders and entrepreneurial teams.
During this one-day workshop, participants will engage in a structured, reflective, and highly practical experience focused on the relational dynamics of entrepreneurial leadership. This workshop helps participants move from reactive leadership patterns toward more intentional responses. It creates space to examine the relational habits that influence team health and organizational direction — and to build practices that support healthier communication, clearer decision-making, and more resilient growth.
You can expect:
- Guided dialogue on how trust, pressure, and conflict show up in entrepreneurial teams
- Experiential practices that help participants notice their own leadership patterns
- Tools for staying present in difficult or emotionally charged conversations
- Practices for listening with intention and responding thoughtfully under pressure
- Opportunities to explore how tension, difference, and uncertainty can be navigated more constructively, for a clearer view of the relational dynamics affecting their team’s performance
- Team-level reflection on how communication, shared language, decision-making, and collaboration can improve
- Practical takeaways that can be applied immediately in day-to-day team interactions for a more sustainable approach to leadership, growth, and team wellbeing
Participants leave with greater relational awareness and concrete tools to support more constructive conversations, stronger collaboration, and healthier working relationships.
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, in-person
Location: Osler Conference Centre. 100 King Street West – 63rd Floor. Toronto, Ontario
Register here before July 1/26 and receive a 15% discount. (Enter EARLY15 at checkout.)
Who This Workshop Is For
This experience is designed for founders, co-founders, CEOs, senior operators, and entrepreneurial teams who are navigating the pressures of venture-building and want to work together with greater trust, alignment, and resilience.
It is especially relevant for teams that are:
- Scaling quickly and experiencing new interpersonal or operating pressures
- Navigating misalignment, unspoken tensions, or difficult conversations
- Facing founder-team, co-founder, board, investor, or leadership dynamics that require greater clarity
- Working through uncertainty, change, or strategic inflection points
- Seeking healthier communication patterns and more sustainable collaboration
- Committed to reflecting on their own leadership patterns and opening new possibilities for the team
This workshop is not a lecture or passive training session. It is for leaders and teams who are willing to participate, reflect, listen, and engage honestly with the dynamics shaping their work.