Sam Thorogood

Tiny Pause Founder - mini protective habits to make work and life easier

Natural Resilience Pilot 2

Clarify what resilience means and how it helps us navigate challenges

Understand resilience

Discover which brain state is essential for resilience and why

Learn the brain science

Practise a NEW 2 minute breathing technique to help you feel calmer and think more clearly.

Calm your nervous system

Shift perspective to identify one useful next step to a current challenging situation

Build self awareness and practice reframing

Presence breaks under pressure. This workshop breaks you and builds you back up.

CPTO Madison Reed | Braintrust, Nextdoor

Madison Reed

Braintrust 🧠

Nextdoor

OpenTable

BlackRock

Elena Luneva

Survived the trading floor, the boardroom, and the hostile questions. 

Chief Product Officer, Executive Coach

Rosalee Gordon

Chief Product Officer, Improv Artist, Founder-Mode Impersonator

CPO, Debate Champion, Pressure Coach

Snap Inc.

Booking.com

Intuit

Showmax

Figure

Barron Ernst

Product Leader, Competitive Debater, The Skeptic Who Did the Reading

On It

Nerve

Someone is going to challenge you in public. -The CFO will say, “I don’t buy the number.”-The founder will interrupt: “That’s not the problem; your team is.”-An executive will question your judgment in front of everyone. -Your buyer will tell you they do not have the problem you are selling the solution for. -Your client will tell you they do not see the ROI of the AI Transformation you are leading and they're about to pull the plug.Even though you know your material, you will freeze, ramble, defend, or concede.In this, of course, I coach you through these situations so you don't do that again and tank your promotion, or sale, and get labeled as "junior". This is not a character flaw. It is what happens when no one has ever trained you for pressure that is the critical part of your job. In this workshop, I am going to put you into that situation on purpose. You will get uncomfortable. You will get pushed. You will practice getting ambushed, learn to reground and take back the narrative. You will learn to lead.The leaders who get promoted and earn the externally facing roles are the ones who show up even when they don't know the outcome.

You will learn to name what is happening, take a pause, get curious and re-direct the conversation when things are not going according to pl

Confidence

Stay composed when an executive challenges you

Take control of hostile questions and high-stakes conversations

Practice your hardest scenarios and leave with a personal playbook

This will be a tough situation; if you are not ready to be challenged on the spot, this workshop is not for you.

Ready to get uncomfortable

Senior Product &amp; Tech Leader Stay composed and credible when execs push back, navigate conflict and politics, recover when knocked off script

Transformation Leader / Consultant Lead through resistance, ambiguity, and skeptical stakeholders without losing authority or momentum.

Customer-Facing Leader / Seller Handle objections, curveballs, and tough questions while protecting trust, credibility, and win the deal.

Students will gain awareness to recognize an emotional reaction and pause to improve decision, relationships, and outcomes.  

 Rewire your brain. Reimagine your life.

Living Well USA LLC | Los Gatos CA

Patty Purpur de Vries

Offering practical tools for more calm, clarity, meaning & joy.

Join the Founding Circle

As a member of the Founding Circle you will not simply complete a course. You will become a Founding Practitioner in a growing community committed to leading with awareness, emotional steadiness, discernment, connection, and humanity.

Your insights and experiences will help establish the foundation for future cohorts and for an ongoing community of those who wish to continue living and leading through in the practice to:

Observe. Honor. Discern. Choose. Connect. Create.

Founding Circle

This is the second cohort in the Self-Leadership Series.  I hope you'll join us.

Trail Blazers

If you are seeking self-regulation under pressure, this course is for you.

From conditioned reaction to conscious creation.

Stay grounded and think more clearly under pressure

Build trust and psychological safety within teams

Stress is at an all-time high and half say they want help reducing it.

Stress Management Expert & Coach

Jordan Friedman

Stress expert, former Director of Columbia University's Health Education Program

5.20.26 Group

Stress and anxiety are fueling symptoms for leaders, managers and team members—everything from distraction, overwhelm and depression, to lower engagement, burnout and higher turnover.Stress and anxiety aren't just wellness issues that can be answered by an AI chatbot, in a one-hour workshop, or with a day off. They are ongoing challenges that leaders and others can and should address with simple, built-in actions that don't require a counseling degree.In fact, some of the most effective stress reduction can happen as a part of daily activities—in a meeting, on a phone call, or before a presentation.During this workshop, you’ll learn simple, fast-acting strategies and techniques to reduce and prevent stress for yourself and those you work with—and how to incorporate them into your work as a leader, manager or team member.At the end of this workshop, you will:<ul><li>Be able to PREVENT and reduce stress by better identifying its sources and symptoms.</li><li>Use and share evidence-based stress and anxiety reduction techniques for sharper focus, reduced overwhelm, better sleep, and more.</li><li>Seamlessly make stress and anxiety reduction a welcomed part of your leadership, management and work culture.</li></ul>

Leaders, managers, coordinators and others who provide guidance and support

Coaches, educators, and HR professionals who support others

Anyone who wants practical ways to reduce and prevent stress—for themselves and others

12 weeks to recover from burnout, reconnect to purpose and lead at peak performance, with smarter systems and AI.

Cohort 4

Ex-Meta Product Lead & 3x Founder

Google

Microsoft

Netflix

Deloitte

Chase

KPMG

Barclays

Shopify

Angelina Fomina

Product Leader (Meta, Shopify, BetterUp), 3x Founder, Performance Coach

Cohort 1

Cohort 5

You're good at what you do. That's the problem. You keep raising the bar, saying yes and carrying the team. Now you're running on empty, second-guessing yourself, and wondering how long you can keep this up.Rest alone won't fix it. Burnout lives in your nervous system, your beliefs about success, your boundaries, the way you work, and sometimes in a quiet loss of meaning. Sustainable success comes from fixing those, not pushing harder.Beyond Burnout is a 12-week program to recover your energy, reconnect to purpose and grow into the leader you want to be.Built from my own burnout as a product leader at Meta and a founder, and 300+ coaching sessions with leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and more.<ol><li>Understand & release what's driving your burnout.</li><li>Recover your energy, body and nervous system.</li><li>Rewire the inner critic and perfectionism.</li><li>Redesign how you work, with boundaries and AI.</li><li>Rise and lead from purpose.</li></ol>Three ways to join: self-paced ($249, start now), live cohort ($599, Thursdays 7 pm ET from Jan 14, 2027), or cohort + 3 private sessions ($998: add the <a href="https://maven.com/the-sage-reset/o/d6fe5c" target="_blank">private coaching add-on</a>).

Sustainable success, without abandoning yourself

Understand & release (Weeks 1-2)

Recover your energy (Weeks 3-5)

Rewire your mind (Weeks 6-7)

Redesign how you work (Weeks 8-9)

Rise: lead from purpose (Weeks 10-12)

Graduate with your Sustainable Success Plan (Week 12)

You're a high achiever running on empty. Exhausted, wired or numb, and rest hasn't fixed it.

You're a new or growing leader facing impostor syndrome, a bigger scope and too much on your plate to delegate well.

You want to perform at your peak after a layoff, setback or big transition, without sacrificing your health.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

AI for GTM

Sales

Customer Success

GTM Engineering

Everyone

Founders

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

Natural Resilience Pilot 2

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

You'll learn from

Sam Thorogood