Deep and Calm: Leading Resilient Organizations

Change comes in waves: leadership transitions, funding shifts, staff turnover, community crises. The question isn't whether the river is moving. It's whether you're leading your organization through it with clarity and intention - or just reacting to the current.

Gerianne Puskas brings neuroscience and real-world leadership experience into a practical, engaging conversation about what genuine organizational resilience looks like. You'll walk away knowing how chronic stress quietly affects leadership decision-making, how to honestly assess your own resilience patterns, and how to shift into the kind of grounded, steady leadership that keeps your people moving forward, even when the water gets rough.

This isn't a pep talk. It's a framework, a self-assessment, and strategies you can put to work the very next day.

About the speaker

Gerianne Puskas, MBA, CFRE, CNPM is a senior advisor, speaker, and Founder & CEO of Mission Advancement Group, with more than 30 years of leadership experience building high‑performing organizations in complex, high‑change environments. Her work sits at the intersection of evidence‑based practice, systems thinking, leadership behavior, and sustainable performance.

Drawing on neuroscience, positive psychology, and real‑world executive experience, Gerianne helps leaders understand how people respond to change, stress, and ambiguity—and how those responses cascade through teams and systems. She is widely known for her “Deep & Calm” leadership framework, which equips leaders to strengthen resilience, improve decision‑making, and create organizational conditions that support reliability, engagement, and continuous improvement.

Gerianne has held multiple C‑suite roles, led large‑scale transformation initiatives, and achieved measurable, sustained results while navigating constant disruption. She brings a practical, peer‑to‑peer approach to leadership development, translating research into actionable tools leaders can apply immediately. Known for her warm, grounded facilitation style, Gerianne challenges leaders to lead with clarity, compassion, and purpose—especially when the work is hard.

JOIN US FOR THIS FREE WEBINAR

Date: Wednesday, May 27

Time:  12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT

Location:  On-line, via Zoom

Cost:  Free to GRQC members and non-members

Registration:  Click below to register.  

Can’t make it live but interested in the content?  Register anyway: all registered attendees get a link to the recording after the session!

If you require ASL interpretation, please let us know by May 18.

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