Speaking Up Under Pressure
Built on Amy Edmondson's published research, this program gives leadership and teams the experience of raising a risk, challenging a decision, and asking the hard question when the pressure is highest.
The Enliven First Cohort Package
Leadership and teams that speak up when it matters.
Enliven places leadership and teams inside a real workplace moment where speaking up carries risk, then guides them into the honest conversation and the named behaviors that change how they work.
A complete first cohort, open to the first 10 organizations ready to start.
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Up to 74%
of participants who had completed leadership training before rated Enliven's sessions as more impactful than anything they had done.
Enliven sessions
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9 in 10
participants left Building Stronger Teams ready to act differently.
Building Stronger Teams
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98%
of senior leaders wanted to bring Speaking Up Under Pressure to their own teams after one session.
Speaking Up Under Pressure
Knowing what good looks like is the easy part.
Leadership and teams can define psychological safety with precision and still hold back the question or the concern in the meeting that decides the outcome. Amy Edmondson's research links that silence to lost innovation, weaker performance, and higher attrition. In psychologically safe teams, 3% of people intend to quit, compared with 12% in unsafe teams (BCG, 2024). Enliven closes the gap between knowing and doing, because a lived experience changes behavior in a way a framework cannot.
Four phases, one standard format.
Every session follows the Standardized Immersion Format, Enliven's method for turning a felt experience into named behaviors.
Priming
The facilitator sets the frame and the stakes for the group.
Immersion
Each participant steps into a VR experience of a real workplace moment and reaches the point in the scene where they decide whether to speak up.
Dialogue
Participants talk through what they experienced, first in pairs and then as a group, while the experience is still fresh.
Activation
Every session ends with two commitments. The team agrees on one change in how it works together, and each person names one behavior they will use from the next meeting onward.
Two programs, built for the moments that shape performance.
Building Stronger Teams
This program focuses on how colleagues treat and recognize each other in daily work, and on how a team responds in the moment when a remark or decision leaves someone out.
Everything your first cohort needs, delivered by Enliven.
- A Briefing with your decision-maker to set the cohort, the program, and the dates.
- A Leadership Session for your executive team and HR leadership team, so the people who own the rollout decision have the experience first.
- First cohort sessions with your real intact teams: three sessions, or six sessions across two cohort types.
- Measurement at the start of the program and a follow-up at 12 weeks.
- A facilitator debrief after every session.
- A Rollout Decision Package within 10 working days of the final session, with your rollout decision date named.
- Full delivery by Enliven: facilitation, VR hardware, platform, and on-site technical support.
From first cohort to organization-wide rollout.
First cohort
Leadership and the first teams complete the program, and your leadership receives the evidence to decide on rollout.
Rollout
The program reaches a quarter of a business unit or site within twelve months, the level at which team norms change.
Your own facilitators
Enliven certifies your internal practitioners, so the capability runs inside your organization at scale.
Global employers already run Enliven.
Bilfinger
Ten first cohorts, each with a fixed start date.
Enliven opens this package to the first 10 organizations ready to start, so every first cohort runs with Enliven's senior faculty and a confirmed place in the delivery calendar. Places are confirmed in the order Briefings are completed.
Questions
Who should join the Briefing?
The person who owns the budget and the rollout decision, together with the leader who will champion the program internally.
Where do sessions run?
At your location. Enliven brings the VR hardware and runs the full technical setup.
How is impact measured?
Enliven measures at the start of the program and again at 12 weeks, and the results feed directly into your Rollout Decision Package.
What happens after the first cohort?
Your leadership decides on rollout using the Rollout Decision Package, and the program moves into rollout on the date set in your proposal.
How is the package priced?
Enliven scopes the package with you in the Briefing and confirms it in a written proposal.
Secure one of the 10 first cohort places.
Schedule a Briefing and we will confirm your cohort, your program, and your start date.