The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: Thriving Under Pressure

Yoke Van Dam 
Instructor: Yoke Van Dam 
Date: Tuesday January 13, 2026
Time:

10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST

Duration: 60 Minutes
Webinar Id: 25401

Price Details

Live Webinar
$150. One Attendee
$290. Unlimited Attendees
Recorded Webinar
$190. One Attendee
$390. Unlimited Attendees
Combo Offers   (Live + Recorded)
$289 $340   One Attendee
$599 $680   Unlimited Attendees

Unlimited Attendees: Any number of participants

Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months (Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)

Overview:

In today's demanding corporate world, leading with emotional intelligence is no longer a soft skill it's a strategic advantage.

Managers are constantly balancing performance targets, team dynamics, and the pressure to adapt to change, all while managing their own emotions. When the stakes are high, what separates effective leaders from the rest is not just what they know but how they show up under pressure. Join us for "The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: Thriving Under Pressure," a dynamic one-hour live session designed to equip you with practical tools to lead with composure, clarity, and confidence even in challenging times.

This interactive experience will help you build emotional awareness, strengthen resilience, and enhance your ability to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively. You’ll walk away with immediately actionable strategies to improve emotional regulation, decision-making, and team engagement key ingredients for leadership success in today’s fast-paced environment.

Why you should Attend:

  • You want to lead with confidence instead of reacting from stress
  • You're ready to manage your emotions so they don't manage you
  • You want to build stronger, more connected relationships with your team
  • You're looking for practical, research-based strategies you can apply immediately
  • You believe in leading with both strength and empathy This is not a passive webinar

It's a highly engaging, experiential session featuring live exercises, guided reflection, and real-time application of emotional intelligence tools designed to elevate your leadership effectiveness.

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • Emotional Resilience: The Foundation of Strong Leadership
    • How to stay grounded, calm, and confident in high-pressure situations
    • The four cornerstones of emotional resilience: self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and optimism
    • A guided technique to shift from emotional reactivity to deliberate, composed leadership
  • Leading with Emotional Intelligence
    • The neuroscience behind emotional triggers and how to manage them effectively
    • The "90-second rule": mastering your emotions before they master you
    • How emotionally intelligent leaders inspire trust and loyalty, even in times of uncertainty
  • Growth Under Pressure: Turning Setbacks into Strengths
    • Reframing failure as feedback how elite leaders and athletes stay focused after setbacks
    • How to cultivate a growth mindset that fuels learning, adaptability, and confidence
    • A simple reflective exercise to turn emotional challenges into leadership growth moments
  • Practical Strategies to Stay Emotionally Centred
    • Daily habits of emotionally intelligent leaders: boundaries, balance, and perspective
    • How to lead difficult conversations with empathy and authority
    • Interactive scenarios where you’ll practice applying emotional intelligence in real-world situations

Who Will Benefit:

  • Mid-to-Senior Managers who want to stay composed and effective under pressure
  • Team Leaders aiming to motivate and support their teams through uncertainty
  • HR Professionals and executives focused on developing emotionally intelligent workplace cultures
  • Any Professional ready to strengthen their leadership presence and emotional agility

Speaker Profile
Yoke van Dam has been called the Kintsugi queen™ because of her ability to join, repair and transform teams into something quite wonderful. Her work is like Kintsugi, the Japanese art form that mends broken pottery with gold. Yoke works with teams that may have become disjointed, to reconnect and -find their flow again. This approach helps leaders stay optimistic when they encounter flaws and missteps in their organizations leading them to the gold at the 'end of the rainbow.’ As a qualified behavioral change coach with veri-fiable in-the-eld experience (2000+ team members, 2 300+ hours training, and 350+ coaching hours) she’s eminently suited to uncover the real issues holding teams back. Her hard-won experience (15 years) and tried and tested high-performance processes have seen even the most under-performing and fractured teams join together and become stronger and more remarkable. She works with leaders who want to effectively articulate and communicate their vision so that their teams buy into it and are prepared to follow them to hell and back to make sure that vision is achieved, as well as new, untested leaders who need a strong foundational roadmap of how to work with and lead teams to successful outcomes. Her advisory, speaking and coaching work empowers leaders and teams to create meaningful workspaces by tapping into their purpose and enhancing human connection. She empowers leaders and teams with confidence and influence, to find their flow and develop a growth mindset. The specific areas she focuses on are Leadership development, Culture, Emotional intelligence, Time-management, Negotiation, Communication, and Presentation skills. Her clients have been as diverse as sales executives, business leaders and owners, customer service agents, marketers, lawyers, engineers, and accountants. The industries she has covered range from automotive, retail, manufacturing, and engineering to advertising, publishing, legal, and academic. She is the founder of Y-Connect and a Professional member of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA). Her Emotional Intelligence program, and Women in Leadership for Executives have been offered in Canada, Dubai, Egypt, South Africa and is scheduled for Malaysia.

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