CULTURE
UNDER PRESSURE
How to lead when your team is carrying stress, grief, or trauma
and still expects you to “just focus on production.”
A 3-PART LIVE TRAINING
Designed for dental leaders navigating emotional spillover, high-tension conversations, and team instability, without lowering standards or burning themselves out. This is not about becoming a therapist for your team.
It’s about becoming a regulated, strategic leader under pressure.
March 11th
6 - 7 PM EST
When the World Walks Into Your Practice: How Leaders Stabilize Teams in Public Stress
You’ll learn how to:
🦷 Explain why silence often backfires
🦷 Run a simple Stabilize → Sensemake → Support play
🦷 Deliver a 60-second “safe here” message to staff and patients
March 24th
6 - 7 PM EST
Say the Thing Without Saying the Wrong Thing: Conversation Skills for High-Tension Moments
You’ll learn how to:
🦷 Start a conversation without stereotyping, rescuing, or freezing
🦷 Handle split teams (different beliefs, different fears) without the office turning into Thanksgiving
🦷 Use “boundaries + empathy” language
April 7th
7 - 8 PM EST
Operationalize It: Building It Into the Practice: Policies, Protocols, and Culture Signals that Create Safety
You’ll learn how to:
🦷 Implement a lightweight Safety Operating System (no committees, no corporate cosplay)
🦷 Know what to put in writing vs. what to communicate verbally
🦷 Create consistent leadership behaviors across manager
By the end of this series, you will be able to regulate yourself before reacting, navigate grief and stress without absorbing it, address tension directly without escalating it, maintain performance without sacrificing your people, and build a culture that stabilizes under pressure instead of fracturing when things get hard.
MEET THE HOSTS
Brandi Marzolino
Founder of the Empowered LeadHERship Experience for Women in Dental + Courage and Joy at Work, and Host of The Real Talk of Dental podcast
Brandi Marzolino is the straight-talking leadership coach shaking the dental world awake. A former high-achieving overperformer turned sober truth-teller, she helps dentists and their teams break out of burnout culture and lead with clarity, courage, and actual joy.
Through her signature Empowered LeadHERship Experience for Women in Dental & her Courage and Joy at Work boutique coaching company, Brandi blends nervous system regulation, boundaries, and practical leadership tools to help practices become healthier and more profitable without sacrificing the humans inside them. Her podcast, The Real Talk of Dental brings the human behind the dental name forward, normalizing the tough stuff dental professionals experience, helping others feel less alone.
Jonathan Bonanno, PhD (c), MS
Founder, ZIA + Chief Psycho, Executive Advisor, and I/O Psychologist
Jonathan Bonanno is an industrial/organizational psychologist and founder of ZIA, where he partners with founders and practice leaders to build psychologically safe, structurally sound organizations.
Through his advisory work and the Chief Psycho platform, Jonathan reframes leadership strain as systemic rather than personal — helping leaders design environments that properly distribute responsibility, authority, and pressure. His approach combines academic rigor with real-world operational experience inside complex, fast-moving practices.
Jonathan brings over a decade of experience advising dental leaders on how to navigate high-stress environments while protecting team culture and operational integrity.
Edna Abreu
Founder of Latinas in Dentistry + The Dental Culturist,
and Leadership Coach, Culture-Driven Growth Strategist
Edna Abreu is a leadership coach and culture-driven growth strategist with over two decades in dentistry. From chairside to executive leadership, she has built high-performing teams and sustainable systems inside thriving practices.
Through The Dental Culturist, Edna helps practices strengthen operations, elevate leadership, and scale without burning out their teams and as the Founder of Latinas in Dentistry, she empowers and uplifts Latina professionals by fostering mentorship, education, and representation in the dental field
Learn directly from leaders who bridge regulation, communication, and operations. Register today!
Culture Under Pressure
How to lead when your team is carrying
stress, grief, or trauma, and still expects you
to “just focus on production”.
March 11th, March 24th at 6 PM EST
and April 7th at 7 PM EST
FULL SCHEDULE?
All sessions will be recorded, and the replay will be sent directly to you so you can engage with the material when you have the space to absorb it and apply it thoughtfully.
You don’t have to lead this season
the same way you led the last one.
Brandi partners with dental leaders who are ready to lead with confidence, self-trust, and joy, in a way that actually fits who they are now.
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