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Workshops · Cohorts · Certifications · Keynotes
Ten signature programs addressing the six 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 5-minute Mental Health Index scores your team across six domains — psychological safety, burnout, stress, purpose, communication, and leadership support — and pinpoints your two highest-leverage starting points.
Design
Your Index 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 Index 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.
Signature Programs
Six core offerings that have defined Pivot since 2021. Each one stands alone — or pairs with the new domain-specific trainings below for a complete engagement.
An eight-step, evidence-based framework for organizational recovery. Moves teams from workforce fatigue to renewed capacity through assessment, alignment, and activation phases.
A stress intelligence tool identifying how individuals actually behave under pressure. Six distinct pressure types and thirty possible combinations — foundation for personalized resilience coaching.
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.
Holistic employee wellness programs that go beyond the annual wellness fair. Built for organizations committed to mental health as a strategic investment, not a checkbox.
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.
New for 2026
Most mental health work stops at burnout and stress. The real drivers sit upstream — in psychological safety, communication, leadership support, and meaning.
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.
Not sure which training you need?
Five minutes. Six 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 IndexMake 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.
Eight steps from workforce fatigue to renewed capacity.
The Recharge Method™ is Pivot's flagship organizational recovery framework. Delivered in three phases — Assess (diagnose the pattern, not just the symptoms), Align (rebuild the leadership and policy conditions that caused the burnout in the first place), and Activate (install the recovery practices that stick). Designed for organizations already feeling the cost of burnout in their P&L — rising absenteeism, resignation clusters, or visible morale collapse.
This is not a workshop. It's a structured engagement that moves an entire organization (or division) from Strained or Critical tier on the Mental Health Index back to Functional or Thriving — typically over a 90 to 180-day arc.
Scientific foundation: Pivot's proprietary methodology, developed through engagements with organizations across healthcare, education, and corporate sectors since 2021.
Stress intelligence — not stress management.
PressureIQ is Pivot's proprietary assessment that identifies how individuals actually behave under pressure. Instead of the generic "stressed vs. not stressed" binary, PressureIQ maps six distinct pressure types with thirty possible combinations — giving leaders and teams a shared language for the patterns that emerge when the heat gets turned up.
Ideal as a team-wide assessment followed by a facilitated debrief, or as the diagnostic foundation for a leadership development arc. Pairs powerfully with the Mental Health Index: the Index tells you where your team is struggling; PressureIQ tells you how each individual will respond when stress lands on that struggle.
Scientific foundation: Pivot's proprietary pressure-type framework, validated across 1,000+ assessments in organizational settings.
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.
Employee wellness that goes beyond the annual health fair.
Pivot Wellness is a holistic, year-long employee wellness program for mid-to-large employers who are serious about mental health as a strategic investment. Includes quarterly education modules, live office hours with Pivot clinicians, crisis-response protocols, and leadership accountability for measurable outcomes.
Pairs with the Mental Health Index (baseline measurement), PressureIQ (individual-level insight), and the Manager-as-Coach Track (front-line capability) for a complete mental health infrastructure.
Scientific foundation: Built on the NIOSH Total Worker Health framework and Pivot's six-domain mental health model.
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 Mental Health Index to see where you actually stand, or book a 30-minute scoping call with Chris to walk through your situation live.