From Freaked Out to Fired Up: Helping Employees Thrive in Today’s Uncertain Economy

EVENT DATE:  THURSDAY, APRIL 17TH FROM 1-2 PM EASTERN

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Employees are scared. The market’s shaky. The vibes are bad. 

Layoffs. Stock market crashes. Tariff shocks. Companies are frozen. And employees? They’re clinging to their desks, afraid to ask for a raise, let alone take a risk.

If your people seem burned out, emotionally checked out, or just plain scared, you're not imagining things.

But with the right tools, and this 1-hour masterclass, you can rebuild trust and energy fast.

WHY YOU NEED THIS 1-HOUR MASTERCLASS:

This 1-hour masterclass training gives your leaders practical, research-backed tools to calm employee anxiety, re-ignite motivation, and keep your culture strong — even while the economy’s a mess.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

In this no-fluff, research-packed 1-hour masterclass, you’ll get the exact tools leaders need to:
✅ Calm economic anxiety without sounding clueless
✅ Rebuild optimism and drive — even when things feel shaky 
✅ Use HARD Goals to focus your team’s attention on something meaningful
✅ Reduce burnout with simple scripts & exercises
✅ Keep your high performers engaged (and stop the low-performers from coasting)
✅ Communicate in a way that doesn’t trigger panic

WHAT YOU’LL BE ABLE TO DO AFTER THIS 1-HOUR MASTERCLASS:

Equip leaders with actionable, research-driven tools to:

🔻 Reduce employee fear and anxiety
🔥 Reignite engagement and purpose
🔋 Restore trust, energy, and performance
🎯 Turn economic stress into a strategic cultural advantage

WHAT YOU GET:

📜 1:1 conversation scripts
📉 Burnout early-warning checklist
📣 CEO memo template (the one that actually works)
🧩 Step-by-step HARD Goals worksheet
🛠️ 4-part Monday & Friday meeting templates

WHO THIS IS FOR:

This session is for executives, HR leaders, and frontline managers who are DONE with vague platitudes and ready for real solutions.

HERE’S THE FULL 1-HOUR AGENDA:

🔍 PART 1: The New Workplace Vibe: Fear, Freezes, and “The Big Cling”

You cannot control the White House or Wall Street — but you can radically change what happens in your own four walls. Why employees are playing it safe, staying quiet, and slowly disengaging — and what leaders must do to snap them out of it.

• The surprising stat about high performers being less engaged than low performers — and what’s killing their motivation
• Why “stock market drops” aren’t your biggest problem — the vibe session is
• The 12-year low on employee optimism — and the dangerous behavior it's triggering
• Why even great jobs are starting to feel like “dead ends” to your team
• The silent epidemic: people not asking for raises, promotions, or visibility — and how that sinks performance
  

🔥 PART 2: Stop Staring at the Marshmallow: Getting Your Team Focused on Something Bigger

Distract your people with a goal that’s so meaningful they don’t have time to think about how scary things feel. Fear thrives in the silence. This is how you give your people something better to think about.

• The Stanford marshmallow experiment secret that unlocks modern leadership psychology
• How “strategic attention allocation” (a fancy term for great leadership) instantly lowers anxiety
• How to write a HARD Goal that’s so motivating, employees forget the economy even exists
• The 4 ingredients every goal needs (and why SMART goals don’t work anymore)
• A behind-the-scenes look at the “ChocoBot Memo” — a CEO's masterclass in leadership storytelling

🔋 PART 3: Reignite The Spark: How to Crush Burnout and Raise Engagement (Even Now)

The spark isn’t gone. It’s just buried under fear, vagueness, and a lack of heartfelt direction. Fix those, and the passion comes roaring back. Burnout is not about naps or meditation — it’s about clarity, purpose, and real connection. Here’s how to give your people all three.

• The 13 words your burned-out employees are already using in Slack and email — and what to do when you spot them
• The Monday Meeting Template that builds mental resilience in just 6 bullet points
• The Friday Morning Ritual that reframes the week — and rewires optimism
• The 3-Part Daily Self-Efficacy Exercise that clinical psychologists use to rebuild confidence (and how to teach it in 5 minutes)
• The 7 phrases that seem empathetic but secretly make burnout worse (and what to say instead)
• The exact number of hours per week your managers must talk to their employees — and what to say during those convos

🧭 PART 4: Helping Your People Move Forward Without Freaking Out

You don’t need everyone to be wildly optimistic. But you do need to replace paralysis with a plan. When everything feels unstable, employees need certainty, clarity, and conviction. This is how you give it to them.

• Why most “change management” fails — and the 3-part framework that makes people actually want to change
• The 4-question change readiness survey you can use in 1:1s to instantly diagnose resistance
• The “set the platform on fire” technique that lights urgency (without inciting panic)
• How to paint a vivid future state that pulls people forward (not pushes them out of fear)
• The psychological reason people prefer fear over confusion — and how to flip that script
• A script for the 1-sentence personal control reframe that changes everything

YOUR PRESENTER

Through his groundbreaking research, Mark Murphy has created some of the biggest ideas in leadership. He’s a New York Times bestselling author, a FORBES Senior Contributor, ranked as a Top 30 Leadership Guru, and the Founder of Leadership IQ.  He’s trained leaders at the United Nations, Harvard Business School, Microsoft, MasterCard, SHRM, and hundreds more.  Mark leads one of the world’s largest leadership skills studies, and his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and U.S. News & World Report. Mark has also appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC’s 20/20, and Fox Business News.