Intensive work with teams.
Psychological safety can’t be built through a PowerPoint. It takes risk and vulnerability - and our actors can help.
Our Approach
Psychological safety — the degree to which people feel like they can be open and honest — is the number one factor in team performance (with over one thousand published studies to show it).
But it can’t be built by reading a study. Psychological safety is a form of connection and emotional development that can only be created through direct experience.
In our team intensive, we provide safe and supportive space for members to explore the ways that they may unintentionally “perform” with each other and then experience what it’s like to be more open and honest. Our professional actors create a simulation where team members can build the skill of creating psychological safety in a safe space where trying things out and “getting messy” is encouraged.
Over multiple days, teams will gain new opportunities to break through old patterns or “walls” - and form deeper, more meaningful relationships in the process.
Leaders who have done it with their teams.
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Angira Sceusi
CEO of RedefinED Atlanta
“This was the most valuable team PD that I have ever done. I would 100% recommend it to other leadership teams.” -
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Carmen Darville
Chief of Operations at YES Prep
“I’m so grateful. This broke down some walls between team members and me and I think the impact will be lasting.”
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Jacob Robinson
CEO of Motif Neurotech
"The impact was more than I could have imagined. It immediately surfaced what had been unspoken on my team." -
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Oliver Sicat
CEO of Ednovate
“The work Authentic Leaders has done with my team has been transformational in my leadership style, longevity and overall life happiness.”
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Tresha Ward
CEO of Prospect Schools
“The intensive was so critical to my team’s growth and connection. It all felt liberating.” -
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Lakeesha Ramdhanie
Chief of Staff at KIPP Atlanta
“I felt truly heard and also gained a deeper understanding of my teammates. The intensive helped free me from internal tension I’ve been holding. I felt liberated to show up authentically.”
The methods are unconventional. The results are concrete.
Immediate increase in psychological safety
Meetings that feel lighter and more creative
Stronger relationships between team members
Decrease in unproductive “displacement behaviors” (underlying tension, holding back, the “meeting after the meeting,” etc.)
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The full process takes 2-3 days (depending on team size) in order to go deep with teams and surface dynamics that may otherwise take months or years to address (if at all).
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Team Intensives are an in-depth process that include 2-3 days with the full team, private coaching sessions with each member ahead of time, and team follow-up after the intensive is over. While exact cost is determined by many factors (size of the team, number of facilitators, in-person vs. virtual, etc.) the range is typically 25K - 40K for the entire process.
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We work primarily with non-profits within education and philanthropy, but we have also worked with tech start-ups. a movie studio. etc. The sector or industry is not as important as the team and leader’s authentic desire for greater psychological safety and connection.
