Leadership shapes more than outcomes, it influences your team’s stress levels, communication patterns, and overall culture. Conscious, intentional leadership begins with self-awareness and extends into everyday interactions that build trust, psychological safety, and resilience.
Join Jennifer Edwards, DVM, ACC, CPC, ELI-MP, FFCP-V, for this RACE- and VHMA-approved course, where you’ll learn how to move beyond reactive leadership and create a healthy, high-functioning team environment. You’ll explore how your energy, habits, and internal patterns affect decision-making, communication, and team wellbeing, then apply conscious leadership principles to real-world challenges and high-pressure situations.
Through practical strategies and real-world applications, you’ll gain tools to recognize early signs of compassion fatigue and burnout, strengthen psychological safety through daily leadership behaviors, and communicate with clarity and compassion during difficult moments. This course will help you support individual wellbeing while fostering shared ownership of a resilient, connected team culture.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize early indicators of compassion fatigue and burnout along an emotional and behavioral continuum
- Understand how internal patterns and energy states influence leadership effectiveness, communication, and decision-making
- Use grounding and self-regulation strategies to shift from reactivity to intentional leadership
- Build and maintain psychological safety through consistent, everyday leadership behaviors
- Apply conscious communication techniques to support team members during stress or struggle
- Strengthen team resilience and encourage shared responsibility for a healthy workplace culture
- Demonstrate leadership behaviors that reduce defensiveness and promote openness, trust, and connection