Poponi

Happiness Expert. Management Whisperer for New Leaders. 

From Burnout to Buy-In: Rebuilding Team Morale Through Trust

Anthony Poponi

Take a 15-item self-check, then learn the behavior cues that reveal the same burnout patterns in your team.

Read your team's burnout signals, starting with you

Practice being Direct and Other-focused, two trust habits that make it safe for your team to name burnout early.

Open up honest conversations using our DROPs methodology

Practice delivering specific, timely praise in the moment, the single habit that lifts engagement faster than any other

Master real-time recognition that rebuilds morale

8-week holistic reset for high-achievers navigating burnout or life transition. Reclaim your health, energy, identity and confidence.

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3x Founder, PM ex-Meta, Intuitive Coach

Deloitte

Google

GoFundMe

Microsoft

Angelina Fomina

Product Lead, 3x Founder and Intuitive Career & Leadership Coach

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Burnout doesn’t just go away with rest or better time management. It asks you to slow down, look within, and rebuild in a new way physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.I created this framework after my own experience, and 250+ coaching sessions, blending ancient wisdom, and modern science to help people recover from burnout and emotional overwhelm, release what no longer serves them, and grow, personally and professionally, from the inside out.I’ll share the exact tools I used to lead at Meta, and build businesses, while putting my health and authenticity first.This program is for you, if you're ready to live, and lead from a place of balance, stop the cycle of toxic productivity, limiting beliefs and build sustainable success: mind, body, emotions, and spirit PROGRAM GOALS:01 - Understand &amp; Accept02 - Release &amp; Let-go03 - Rebuild &amp; Heal04 - Personalize &amp; Redesign05 - Discover &amp; Expand06 - Lead &amp; Create

What You'll Get

Understand

Release

Heal

Protect

Redesign

Lead

🔥&nbsp;Burnt out from hustle or toxic environments,&nbsp;or&nbsp;emotionally overwhelmed&nbsp;with numbness, exhaustion.

💼&nbsp; Want to be a more authentic, balanced and energetic leader.

💼&nbsp;Navigating change, loss, lay-off or uncertainty.&nbsp;You're disconnected from yourself, grieving, and seeking clarity on big decisions.

Great leaders mentor, coach, and inspire. This course teaches you how to lead through trust and bring out the best in your team.

Leadership & Career Coach

Stefano Paolinelli

Certified Life Coach | Management, Notre Dame | Positive Psychology, Oxford

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Most managers are trained to direct, control, and evaluate. But the best leaders do something different, they create the conditions for their people to thrive, speak up, and take ownership.This course is for anyone who wants to lead with purpose, build a team that performs at its best, and make a real impact, on their organization and the people in it.You will learn how to build psychological safety so people feel safe to speak up and take risks. You will develop the courage to lead with vulnerability and honesty. And you will discover how to give your team real ownership - not just tasks - so that they are invested in outcomes.

Great leaders mentor, coach, and inspire.

Build psychological safety so your team speaks up and takes risks

Lead with courage, honesty, and vulnerability in every interaction

Develop a coaching mindset that empowers your people to grow

Shift your team from compliance to genuine commitment and ownership

Have difficult conversations that build trust, not damage it

Transform your style from manager to inspiring leader

Managers who feel stuck in command-and-control mode and want to lead differently

Emerging leaders who want to build trust and inspire their team from day one

Senior leaders who want to create a high-performance culture rooted in trust

From pushback to ownership: conversations that drive real change

Executive Coach - Ex-Google, Indeed

Indeed

Linda Scotti 

Executive Coach Driving Measurable Leadership Effectiveness and Behaviour

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You know the conversation you need to have. The one you keep replaying in your head between meetings or while trying to fall asleep.You’ve tried being direct, you’ve tried being empathetic, and you've explained the "why" five different ways. Yet, you still get:<ul><li>“I can’t because…”</li><li>“It’s not my fault…”</li><li>Silence, shutdown, or a polite “Sure” followed by zero change.</li></ul>This workshop is for that moment. In 3 hours, you'll learn to hold the line on standards while lowering the defensiveness that makes accountability conversations fail.Why “brain-friendly” is the differentiator Most models assume people are calmly processing data. In reality, when someone feels threatened (status, autonomy, fairness), their nervous system shifts into protection mode. That’s when resistance and victim language take over, turning your coaching into an energy drain.The Outcome You’ll leave with a system to:<ul><li>Move people from pushback to ownership in one conversation.</li><li>Lead change without it collapsing into "this won't work here."</li><li>Create clear follow-up that actually sticks.</li></ul>No "tips." Just scripts, templates, and a practiced plan.

Turn pushback, blame, and victim mindset into clear agreements, ownership, and measurable next steps.

Reduce employee defensiveness in the first 60 seconds.

Deliver clarity that drives behavior change using SBI + N.

Turn resistance and victim language into personal ownership.

Make accountability stick with a repeatable follow-up loop.

Use AI to scale ownership and increase follow-through.

The Rescuing Manager: Exhausted from "fixing" team problems. Ready to stop being the solution machine and start building team ownership.

The Direct High-Performer: A leader who values results but feels direct feedback is triggering defensiveness rather than behavior change.

The Change Leader: Navigating team resistance to new tools and processes. Needs a system to move people from resistance to possibility.

Build on your product skills to excel at team-building, improving performance, seeing what others are missing and enabling impactful change.

Excellence & Impact for Product Leaders

Sascha Brossmann

Fractional CPO · Executive Advisor · Community Builder

Research is clear: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://hbr.org/2009/05/why-teams-dont-work">most teams underperform</a>. To make it worse, many organisations struggle to define how their employees will be successful at teamwork. People are complex – they require work to make the work work. :)This can be hard even for seasoned leaders. As a rookie manager, the challenge becomes even more daunting: suddenly you're facing entirely new problems that require equally new skills. It often feels like assembling your parachute while already falling.It does not have to be that way.I've been that manager. Muddling through, failures along the way. Until something clicked:As product people we habitually point all our skills outward, at users. Our organisations and the people we work with remain a blind spot.This changes fundamentally when we reframe what we already know.People Discovery turns our skills inward: to understand the people we work with, surface needs and capabilities, and convert that into trust, cohesion, and visibly better work. A win/win for people and performance.With that we can approach our teams and organisations like a product: human-centric, outcome-focused, agile, strategic, intentionally designed.It profoundly changes the game. Like to see how?

Turn your product skills inwards to become a high-impact leader

The unlock: Reframe your product skills for management and leadership

The backbone: Build situational awareness with people and business discovery

The heart muscle: Turn insights into effective team agreements that stick

Benefit from people discovery across the team lifecycle

Diagnose and fix performance and culture issues

The growth hormone: Leverage product skills beyond leading teams

You have senior work experience in a product-related role. You're confident with your skills so that you can start building on them.

Senior product-related experience

Both a team you're leading or one of equal peers (e.g. exec team) works. No team? We will also use roleplay and an AI team for course work.

Ideally: you have a team to get right into practice

New managers coming from a product, design, tech, or related role who want to hit the ground running.

Experienced managers looking for new ways to improve both team performance and talent attrition.

Senior leaders discontent with the status quo who want to align human flourishing with business impact.

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Design Strategy

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AI Governance

Communication

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Exec Presence

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Goal-setting

Personal Brand

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Everyone

Operators

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User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Executives and senior leaders who set strategy, lead teams, and drive organizational outcomes.

Executive communication — presenting to boards, writing memos, running all-hands, and high-stakes messaging.

Developing leadership skills — inspiring teams, building culture, navigating organizational complexity, and driving results through others.

Day-to-day people management — 1:1s, feedback, performance management, hiring, and team operations.

From Burnout to Buy-In: Rebuilding Team Morale Through Trust

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