A live resilience experience for teams and leaders
A powerful 45–60-minute experience that helps people navigate pressure, respond intentionally to change, and bring greater self-awareness, purpose, and resilience into the workplace.
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The workplace challenge
Changing priorities, demanding workloads, workplace uncertainty, and competing expectations can affect how people communicate, make decisions, and work together.
Even highly capable employees can become reactive, disconnected, or resistant when they do not have the tools to understand what they are experiencing.
Organizations cannot eliminate every difficult moment. They can help their people become better equipped to navigate those moments.
of U.S. workers experience work-related stress.
The American Institute of Stressof workplace conflict is driven primarily by stress.
Pollack Peacebuilding Systems, 2025of U.S. employees say they feel overwhelmed by the amount of change at work.
Eagle Hill Consulting, 2024Numbers like these are why the experience has to work as hard as the message does.
The experience
Resilience: Who Are You Becoming? helps employees and leaders understand how emotions, beliefs, and expectations influence the way they respond to pressure, setbacks, and change.
Through relatable stories, guided reflection, practical strategies, and honest conversation, participants learn how to pause, recognize what they can control, and choose a more intentional response.
Participants leave encouraged to:
Why Yaya
As an educator and former administrator, the speaker understands what it means to lead people, navigate complex systems, manage competing priorities, and remain connected to the human beings behind the work.
The experience translates those lessons into practical insights that support stronger communication, self-leadership, adaptability, and workplace relationships.
“I don’t come to give students another lecture. I create an experience they can feel.”
Built to fit your organization
Leadership
A focused session for executives or leadership teams working through change, pressure, or team dynamics.
All-staff
A broader session for staff meetings, department trainings, or all-hands gatherings that want something felt, not just heard.
Wellness
A featured session for an employee wellness day, retreat, or offsite built around resilience and reconnecting with purpose.
Bring this to your team
Give your employees and leaders an experience that creates meaningful reflection—and practical value they can carry into their work. Resilience: Who Are You Becoming? is available for company meetings, leadership retreats, employee-development programs, team gatherings, and corporate events.