The Resilient Manager: Building Your Mental Toughness to Support Your Team
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Speaker : YOKE VAN DAM
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When : Wednesday, May 07, 2025
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Time : 12 : 00 PM EST
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Yoke van Dam, is a NLP, behavioural change specialist, Professional speaker and leadership expert. Known as the Kintsugi Queen™, because of her ability to help disjoined teams to reconnect and find their flow again.
She works with leaders, who want to effectively articulate and communicate their vision so that their teams buy into it. As well as new leaders who need a strong foundational roadmap of how to work with and lead teams to successful outcomes.
She equips sales and marketing teams to increase sales conversions and create stickiness in their messages.
Her clients sell strategically and speak on small and large stages winning tenders, funding for films or getting listed as suppliers. She does in-person work in South Africa and Dubai. Many of her clients engage her for coaching or training from all over the world. If she’s not coaching you on your next big pitch, training a team or consulting you can find her speaking on stage, hiking up a mountain or jumping in a waterfall.
As a qualified behavioral change coach with veri¬fiable in-the-eld experience (2000+ team members, 2 300+ hours training, and 350+ coaching hours) she’s eminently suited to uncover the real issues holding teams back. Her hard-won experience (15 years) and tried and tested high-performance processes have seen even the most under-performing and fractured teams join together and become stronger and more remarkable.
Her advisory, speaking and coaching work empowers leaders and teams to create meaningful workspaces by tapping into their purpose and enhancing human connection. She empowers leaders and teams with confidence and influence, to find their flow and develop a growth mindset. The specific areas she focuses on are Leadership development, Culture, Emotional intelligence, Time-management, Negotiation, Communication, and Presentation skills.
Her clients have been as diverse as sales executives, business leaders and owners, customer service agents, marketers, lawyers, engineers, and accountants. The industries she has covered range from automotive, retail, manufacturing, and engineering to advertising, publishing, legal, and academic. She is the founder of Y-Connect and a Professional member of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA).
The Resilient Manager: Building Mental Toughness to Lead with Confidence
In today’s fast-paced corporate world, resilience is no longer optional - it’s essential. Managers are expected to lead under pressure, navigate constant change, and keep their teams motivated while dealing with their own challenges. But what happens when stress takes over, when setbacks feel overwhelming, or when uncertainty shakes your confidence? The difference between managers who thrive and those who struggle often comes down to one thing: resilience.
Join us for "The Resilient Manager: Building Mental Toughness to Lead with Confidence", a high-impact, one-hour training session designed to help you develop the mindset, skills, and strategies needed to handle adversity with clarity, confidence, and composure.
This live, interactive session is tailored for corporate professionals, mid-to-senior managers, and team leaders who want to sharpen their ability to lead effectively under pressure. You will walk away with immediately actionable techniques to enhance your leadership resilience, improve emotional regulation, and strengthen your ability to adapt in any situation.
Areas Covered
- Mental Toughness: Thriving Under Pressure
- How to stay focused, confident, and composed even in high-stakes situations
- The four pillars of mental toughness: emotional control, clarity, persistence, and decisiveness
- A powerful exercise to help you reframe pressure and turn it into a leadership advantage - Emotional Regulation: Staying Calm & In Control
- The science behind emotional resilience and why some managers crack under stress while others remain steady
- The 90-second rule: A game-changing technique to prevent emotional hijacking
- A guided breathing and grounding exercise to instantly regain composure in stressful moments - Growth Mindset: Turning Setbacks into Comebacks
- The difference between a fixed mindset (which leads to frustration) and a growth mindset (which fuels success)
- How top executives and elite athletes use failure as a stepping stone for growth
- A simple yet powerful exercise to help you reframe challenges and build unstoppable confidence - Practical Strategies to Build Resilience
- The daily habits of highly resilient leaders: prioritization, boundary-setting, and self-care
- A step-by-step framework for handling unexpected crises and difficult conversations with confidence
- An interactive scenario-based exercise where you’ll practice applying resilience strategies in real-world workplace situations
Who Should Attend
- Mid-to-senior managers looking to strengthen their ability to lead under pressure
- Team leaders who want to support and inspire their teams through uncertainty
- HR professionals and executives focused on creating a resilient workplace culture
- Any professional looking to build confidence, emotional control, and adaptability in their leadership
Why Should You Attend
- You’re constantly managing pressure and want to lead with confidence, not stress
- You struggle with self-doubt or second-guessing yourself in difficult situations
- You want to bounce back faster from setbacks and stop letting challenges derail your focus
- You want to foster a culture of resilience in your team and set the tone for success
- You’re ready for practical, no-fluff strategies that you can apply immediately
This is not a passive lecture. This is a highly interactive, results-driven session where you will engage in real-time exercises, self-assessments, and discussions designed to shift your mindset and strengthen your leadership effectiveness.
Resilient managers aren’t born—they are built. This session will equip you with the skills to lead with strength, navigate stress with confidence, and set yourself apart in today’s competitive corporate landscape.
Topic Background
Through her work in leadership development, emotional intelligence, and communication, Yoke has seen firsthand that the best leaders are not those who never face challenges but rise stronger from them. In today's fast-paced corporate world, resilience isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the foundation of effective leadership.
Many managers find themselves overwhelmed, struggling with burnout, self-doubt, and decision fatigue.
Resilient leaders, however, don’t just survive—they thrive. They:
- Stay calm and decisive under pressure
- Navigate change and uncertainty with confidence
- Inspire and influence their teams, even in difficult times
- Cultivate a growth mindset, turning setbacks into opportunities
If you’re a corporate leader, business owner, or team manager, this session will equip you with the tools to lead with confidence, composure, and influence—even in the toughest situations.
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$160.00
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