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Workshops · Cohorts · Certifications · Keynotes
Signature programs addressing the five domains that predict burnout, turnover, and productivity loss. Each training is rooted in validated research and customized to your team's reality.
Our Approach
We don't show up with a pre-built curriculum. We start with your data, design around your team's specific reality, and measure what actually changed.
Diagnose
Our free PivotIQ Baseline scores your team across five domains — Burnout & Exhaustion Risk, Retention & Flight Risk, Engagement & Fulfillment, Leadership & Manager Effectiveness, and Team Safety & Cohesion — and pinpoints your two highest-leverage starting points.
Design
Your Baseline result maps directly to one of our signature programs. No guesswork. We deliver the training your team actually needs, scaled to your size and budget.
Deliver
Re-take the Baseline 90 days after training. Quantify the shift in each domain. Build the business case for the next engagement. This is mental health with a P&L.
Featured Programs
Our mid-tier engagements — multi-session intensives and cohorts that target the upstream drivers: Team Safety & Cohesion, Leadership & Manager Effectiveness, and Engagement & Fulfillment.
Make it safe to tell the truth. A full-day team intensive using Edmondson's four-stage framework to move teams from fear-based compliance to innovation-ready candor.
The four disciplines — Context, Cadence, Candor, Care — that determine whether change initiatives land or backfire. A 2-day executive intensive for senior leaders.
Front-line managers are the #1 predictor of retention. A 6-week cohort that retrains mid-level managers on the six coaching conversations proven to reduce direct-report burnout.
People don't burn out from hard work — they burn out from work that doesn't matter to them. A half-day intensive that installs role-specific purpose narratives leaders can actually deliver.
Signature Programs
Five core offerings that have defined Pivot since 2021. Each one stands alone — or pairs with the targeted trainings above for a complete engagement.
Mental health curriculum specialized for educational institutions. Reduces behavioral issues, builds educator competency, and equips staff to respond to the mental health crisis in classrooms.
High-energy presentations blending psychology, storytelling, and practical frameworks. Delivered by Chris Davis for conferences, executive retreats, and company-wide events.
Customized full-day and half-day sessions addressing the mental health challenges specific to your team. For leaders who know what they need but want it tailored.
Pivot's science-backed individual burnout diagnostic. A secondary, self-serve tool for leaders and team members who want a personal read alongside the org-wide PivotIQ Baseline.
Not sure which training you need?
Five domains. One clear answer on where to invest first. You'll see your tier, your two weakest domains, and the exact training we'd recommend — before you spend a dollar with us.
Take the Free BaselineMake it safe to tell the truth.
Amy Edmondson's 20+ years of Harvard research proves what every leader feels: the teams that outperform aren't the smartest — they're the ones where people feel safe enough to speak up, admit mistakes, and challenge the plan. Google's Project Aristotle reached the same conclusion after studying 180 of its own teams. Psychological safety was the #1 predictor of high performance, ahead of skill, structure, or experience.
This full-day team intensive moves your intact team through Edmondson's four stages of psychological safety — Inclusion Safety, Learner Safety, Contributor Safety, and Challenger Safety — with live diagnostic exercises, facilitated candor rituals, and a 30-day implementation plan customized to your team's current stage.
Scientific foundation: Built on Edmondson's Team Psychological Safety Scale (1999) and The Fearless Organization (2018); Timothy Clark's Four Stages of Psychological Safety; and Google Project Aristotle's findings on team effectiveness.
The four disciplines that make hard messages land.
When leaders go silent, teams fill the silence with the worst-case scenario. This is the "rumor economy" — and it's one of the most expensive hidden costs in any organization. Research from Edelman and Gallup consistently shows that trust in leadership communication is a stronger predictor of retention than compensation. Yet most executives have never been formally trained in the communication disciplines that build (or destroy) that trust.
This two-day executive intensive installs the Four Cs: Context (why this, why now), Cadence (how often, how predictably), Candor (what you'd rather not say), and Care (how people land on the other side of the message). Each discipline is drilled with live scenarios pulled from your organization's current realities.
Scientific foundation: Adapts the Downs & Hazen Communication Satisfaction Questionnaire (1977); integrates Erin Meyer's Culture Map research on communication styles; and draws on Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions framework for candor in teams.
Your front-line managers are the #1 predictor of retention. Train them like it.
Gallup's landmark research shows that managers account for 70% of the variance in team engagement. Employees don't leave companies — they leave managers. Yet most organizations promote their best individual contributors into management with zero preparation for the human work the role actually requires.
This six-week cohort retrains mid-level managers on the six coaching conversations shown to reduce direct-report burnout by up to 40%: the check-in, the growth conversation, the feedback conversation, the conflict conversation, the accountability conversation, and the career-path conversation. Managers practice live with trained coaches, earn a Pivot-certified digital credential, and leave with a conversation playbook they use the next day.
Scientific foundation: Built on Eisenberger's Perceived Supervisor Support Scale (2002); the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX-7) instrument; ICF Core Coaching Competencies; and Gallup's two decades of research on the manager-engagement link.
People don't burn out from hard work. They burn out from work that doesn't matter to them.
Dr. Michael Steger's two decades of research on meaningful work proves a counterintuitive truth: meaning is a stronger predictor of discretionary effort than compensation, promotion speed, or even autonomy. When people can clearly articulate why their work matters, they bring more of themselves to it. When they can't, they quietly check out — and eventually leave.
This half-day leadership intensive walks your leaders through Steger's Work and Meaning Inventory framework, helps them articulate role-specific purpose narratives for every position on their team, and installs three meaning-making rituals that survive reorgs, layoffs, and leadership changes. It's not a mission-statement exercise. It's operational purpose — wired into how your leaders lead.
Scientific foundation: Built on Steger's Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI) (2012); Amy Wrzesniewski's job-crafting research; and Adam Grant's Give and Take findings on prosocial motivation at work.
Mental health curriculum built for the classroom reality of 2026.
Teachers are burning out at record rates while simultaneously being asked to be the front line of a student mental health crisis they weren't trained for. PivotEDU is a specialized curriculum for K-12 districts, colleges, and universities — designed to reduce behavioral incidents, build educator competency in mental health literacy, and give staff the tools to respond when a student is in distress.
Delivered as professional development for faculty and staff, with an option to cascade age-appropriate content to students through train-the-trainer certification.
Scientific foundation: Draws on trauma-informed care research, SAMHSA's principles for mental health in educational settings, and the CDC's school mental health framework.
Psychology, storytelling, and practical frameworks — delivered on stage.
Chris Davis brings 10+ years optimizing individual and team performance through mental health to conference stages, executive retreats, and company-wide events. A Master's-trained psychology professional with live coaching chops, Chris makes the research feel like a conversation — and the audience leaves with tools they'll use Monday morning.
Signature talks: The Mental Health Cost of Staying Silent · Why Your Best People Are One Conversation Away from Quitting · The Four Disciplines of Leaders People Actually Trust.
Scientific foundation: All content is rooted in peer-reviewed research and Pivot's validated organizational frameworks.
Tailored to your team. Built from scratch, not off the shelf.
Some teams know exactly what they need. Our Corporate Workshops are fully customized half-day or full-day engagements built around your specific team dynamics, recent events, or strategic priorities. We scope the work together, design the curriculum from the ground up, and deliver in the format that fits your team best.
This is our most flexible offering — ideal for executive teams with a specific ask, intact teams navigating an unusual situation, or organizations whose needs don't map neatly onto a named program.
Scientific foundation: Draws on Pivot's full library of research-backed frameworks, selected and combined based on your team's specific needs.
Two ways to start: take the free PivotIQ Baseline to see where you actually stand, or book a 30-minute scoping call with Chris to walk through your situation live.