Session Title:
When Grown-Ups Need to Grow Up: Reducing Drama, Fostering Ownership and Developing Maturity in Leaders

September 17
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

DENISE MCCLENNON

DeniseMcClennen

Session Description:

This session focuses on building ownership and managing challenges proactively, effectively disrupting desires for reactive behavior to create lasting change. We will focus on empowering leaders to build ownership and foster maturity in their relationships, which can significantly improve psychological safety in the workplace, directly impacting team performance for the better.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify Sources of Workplace Drama: Understand common triggers and dynamics that lead to reactivity, drama, and disengagement in high-stress environments.

  2. Cultivate Ownership and Self-Responsibility: Explore methods for fostering a mindset of ownership and accountability, reducing blame, and building self-awareness in leaders.

  3. Develop Emotional and Behavioral Maturity: Gain insights into key maturity-building skills and behaviors, enabling leaders to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively.

Denise McClennon helps leaders and teams build cultures where candor is normal, ownership is shared, and people can perform under pressure without burning out. Her work focuses on the human patterns that quietly derail collaboration — defensiveness, avoidance, drama cycles, and unspoken agreements — and equips leaders with practical tools to shift those patterns in real time. Denise integrates Safety Intelligence (SQ), psychological safety, and adult development into leadership programs that strengthen teams’ ability to navigate complexity, conflict, and change. Known for her candid, engaging style, Denise blends insight with highly usable practices leaders can apply immediately. She is a partner with Fearless Organization Scan and a nationally sought-after speaker on psychological safety and adult development, working with leaders across industries to build more mature, resilient, and learning-oriented workplaces.
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