Description

Leadership is a journey over unpredictable terrain. Success isn’t just reaching the summit—it’s having the tools to navigate every twist and turn along the way.

The Resilient Leader: Your Journey from Basecamp to Summit is designed specifically for managers, team leaders, and executives who want to strengthen their leadership resilience and guide their teams effectively through change, pressure, and uncertainty. This isn’t a general wellbeing course—it’s a hands-on program that focuses on practical strategies leaders can apply immediately to lead themselves and others with confidence.

Through a step-by-step expedition framework, you’ll develop six core elements of resilience: self-awareness, self-regulation, character strengths, realistic optimism, cognitive agility, and team connection. Using short exercises, reflection, pair work, and group discussions, you’ll create personalized action plans that translate insights into real-world leadership impact.

By the end of the course, you’ll feel more confident in your ability to navigate challenges, adapt quickly to change, foster trust within your team, and make clearer, more intentional decisions.

Take the next step in your leadership journey—join us at Basecamp and build a practical resilience toolkit that strengthens both you and your team.

Learning Outcomes

  • Analyze how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors influence leadership decisions and workplace impact.
  • Apply self-regulation strategies to manage stress and respond effectively to common work triggers.
  • Translate personal character strengths into practical leadership behaviors that align with core values.
  • Evaluate workplace challenges using realistic optimism and evidence-based reframing techniques.
  • Apply cognitive agility techniques to adapt thinking and decision-making in changing conditions.
  • Design action plans that strengthen trust, connection, and collaboration within teams.

Duration

12 hours

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Instructor

 

Lydia Di Francesco, MBA, CWHP-P is an award-winning, bilingual workplace wellness strategist, facilitator, and keynote speaker with decades of leadership experience in both the private and public sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences and a MBA from the University of Ottawa and is a Certified Workplace Health and Performance Practitioner. Her expertise in crafting health and performance strategies has become a keystone for enhancing employee well-being.

As the founder of Fit + Healthy 365, Lydia’s impressive portfolio includes partnerships with notable private sector entities such as Rio Tinto, Entertainment One, National Arts Centre, Giatec, and Invest Ottawa, as well as City of Ottawa, and over 25 federal government departments including ISED, Finance Canada, ESDC, Environment Canada, Public Health Agency, and Health Canada.

Beyond her consulting work, Lydia is a recurrent wellness expert on TV and a published author in national and local publications. She is a staunch advocate for mental health, and her contributions to the business and health communities were recognized when she was named Businesswoman of the Year by the Women’s Business Network of Ottawa in 2023.

Lydia’s workshops and presentations are infused with her action-oriented, practical philosophy, empowering individuals and organizations to sustain healthy workplaces.