Behind the Words: The Psychological Forces Shaping Wellbeing in Every Workplace
This award-winning training gives you the insights & tools: to turn your people-first vision & strategies… into real-world, lived experience.
Event Details
Thursday, 11th of September 2025 at 9.30am
3‑hour online workshop — Leadership powered by Neuroscience & Psychology
In today’s fast-paced, emotionally demanding workplaces, it’s often what’s unsaid that shapes outcomes. This engaging three, hour online session, led by leadership coach and psychotherapist Alison Leverett-Morris, explores the hidden psychological and neurological forces that drive behaviour at work.
Drawing on her NeuroPsych Intelligence approach, Alison combines neuroscience, psychology and practical leadership tools to help participants navigate emotion, power dynamics and difficult conversations with confidence.
Whether you’re leading teams, supporting wellbeing, or managing culture change, this session will equip you with the insight and strategies to lead with clarity, empathy and impact.
Cost: £297.00 + VAT = £356.40
Agenda
09:30
The Neuroscience of Human Interaction
10:30
Power dynamics: Who's really running the room?
11:30
From Reactivity to Results: Ethically Influencing the Hidden Codes of Human Behaviour
The Neuroscience of Human Interaction
In this first hour, you’ll gain strategic insight into what derails clarity, communication, and connection – at the brain level
Expect:
✔ Insightful, practical neuroscience that finally explains why some conversations spiral or stall
✔ Clear, visual models that show how defences ‘kick in’ and shut down our highest brain functions and ability to connect with others
✔Simple strategies to regulate your brain – and shift others too – for clarity, connection, engagement, wellbeing, and enhanced performance
Do not expect:
XOver complicated theory – or “just breathe and relax” advice – we go deep, but everything here is relatable and usable in real-time
The result:
While others react… you have a powerful ability to spot dysregulation and reset the room… leading yourself and others into a regulated brain state that’s optimal for clarity, communication and high performance.
Power dynamics: Who’s really running the room?
In the second hour, you’ll learn how to read the invisible power dynamics present in every relationship and every room. We go deeper than the obvious – and once you see these subconscious exchanges, you can’t unsee them!
This awareness becomes a valuable leadership tool
Expect:
✔ A clear distinction between “power over” and “power to” – and why it matters more than ever in modern leadership
✔ Insight into how psychological hierarchy shows up (even when the org chart says otherwise)
✔ Tools to recognise when leadership is being under-occupied – and how to ‘own your leadership’ and hold authority without dominance
Do not expect:
X Old-school, top-down leadership models – this is nuanced, ethical, and grounded in influence, not control
X Shaming of positional power – you’ll learn how to use power well, and not fear it
The result:
You’ll quickly read power dynamics – in 1:1s, teams, company culture, and client relationships. You’ll hold your own power differently – as the stabilising force others trust to move things forward – and empowering others without losing your authority. Critical skills in today’s world.
From Reactivity to Results:
Ethically Influencing the Hidden Codes of Human Behaviour
In the final hour, we bring everything together. You’ll learn how to redirect looping, reactive, emotionally charged – or even dull – conversations into powerful turning points… without pulling rank, pushing harder, or people-pleasing.
Expect:
✔ Advanced insight into the ego! Rarely shared outside psychotherapy training, this is intel that will expand your influence
✔ A surprisingly simple way to see the fast-moving, ever changing psychological patterns at play – in the moment – so you don’t get derailed or drawn in
✔ Real-world tools to lead even the most difficult conversations to a win-win outcome
Do not expect:
X Scripts or conversation hacks. This is deep learning that gives you influence in ANY situation – without needing a script
X Overly-academic models – everything here is practical, relatable, and immediately usable
The result:
You’ll leave able to ethically influence what others can’t even see. Equipped to shift even the most challenging dynamics into productive outcomes. Whether it’s conflict, disengagement, fragile egos – or simply a desire to enhance wellbeing in your workplace: you’ll know how to lead the moment with clarity and steadiness… and build a culture where people thrive.
Speakers
Alison Leverett-Morris
Leadership Development | Executive Coach | Talent Optimisation
Alison Leverett-Morris is a leadership coach, consultant, and facilitator with 25 years of experience at the intersection of leadership, business, and psychology.
She holds a Master’s in Leadership and served as CEO of an Arts & Mental Health charity for seven years, before qualifying as a UKCP-registered Hypno-Psychotherapist and Certified Neuroscience Coach. Alison spent a decade in clinical practice, specialising in trauma and the high-achieving personality type, and confidentially supported hundreds of professionals through burnout, identity-level change and transformational growth.
She later returned to the business world, bringing a depth of human insight and lived experience to leadership and culture – for both individual and systemic change.
Her methodology, Leadership Powered by Neuroscience & Psychology, was developed through a five-year collaboration with a founder-led business. This unique integration of psychotherapeutic insight and leadership strategy was awarded “Most Innovative” at the 2023 National Facilitator Awards (UK).
Alison is known for her refreshingly relatable approach to solving common business challenges such as performance, talent retention, and sustainable growth. In short, she supports people at all levels of a business to love their work and do it brilliantly.