From Trauma to Transformation: Leveraging the Film Sheepdog, Neuroplasticity Coaching, and Service-Oriented Leadership for Post-Traumatic Growth in the Age of AI
Professional Development Workshop
Date: Wednesday 28 October
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $115
Location: The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Room TBD
This event is sponsored by ILA’s Leadership and Coaching member community.
Ticket prices do not include food or beverage. The organizer plans to reach out to all registrants in October to coordinate an offsite lunch (pay for your own meal) prior to the start of the event for those who are able to attend.
Workshop Pre-Requisite: The organizer will organize a virtual watch party of the Film Sheepdog for registrants prior to conference. The exact date/time will be determined by 5 October. If you are unable to attend the virtual watch party, please arrange to stream the film on your own prior to the event.
The event will be limited to 25 seats to ensure psychological safety and deep-circle dialogue.
Secure your seat today and master the human architecture required to lead in the Age of AI.
Description
As the Age of Artificial Intelligence reshapes modern organizations, leaders are managing an unprecedented structural paradox. While AI accelerates computational speed, automation, and algorithmic efficiency, it is simultaneously amplifying a human crisis: rapid organizational displacement, severe burnout striking at both ends of the corporate ladder, moral injury, and systemic loneliness across all levels within communities.
Thriving in an automated future requires more than passive resilience—it demands
Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG). This is the profound functional leap in which leaders actively rewire their cognitive frameworks to transform disruptive institutional stress into regenerative organizational capability that positively impacts work and life dynamics.
This exclusive, pre-conference session breaks away from passive lectures to deliver an interactive, high-impact learning lab that bridges cutting-edge neuroplasticity coaching and human-centric business transformation in practice.
The Cinematic Catalyst: Prior to the ILA Global Conference, we begin with a virtual, community watch party of the award-winning independent film, Sheepdog, an uplifting original story, inspired by countless first-hand testimonials about recovery, redemption, and the journey of healing. Through the narrative of a decorated combat veteran navigating PTSD, community tough love, and psychological safety, participants will visually analyze the real-time neural architecture of trauma recovery, stress mitigation, and human vulnerability—the precise emotional and cognitive attributes that AI cannot replicate yet are vital to healing an exhausted workforce at every organizational level and community at large. The organizer will reach out to all registrants with the day and time by 5 October. If you are unable to attend the virtual watch party, please arrange to stream the film on your own.
The Cafecito Roundtable: The organizer plans to reach out to all registrants in October to help coordinate an offsite lunch (pay for your own meal) at a local Toronto eatery prior to the start of the event. This mid-day gathering is designed as an intentional, collaborative space to step away from the digital noise, share diverse perspectives, and build authentic peer-to-peer connections over lunch before we officially begin the pre-conference workshop.
The Neuroplasticity Lab: During the pre-con, attendees will experience an interactive practicum. The cohort will be divided into intimate “Coaching Circles,” each limited to 5 peers. Utilizing cutting-edge neuroplasticity-based coaching methodologies and service-oriented leadership metrics, you will learn to build a literal Daily Neural Workout® and map out a Neural Blueprint®. This hands-on tool equips your team to break free from stagnant stress loops, maximize executive cognitive flexibility, and lead with deep human intelligence alongside advanced technology.
What You Will Receive: Every registered participant will receive a physical copy of the custom session workbook created by the session curator Dr. Joanne Vázquez de Príncipe, DM-OL (Founder & CEO, Purposeful Advising & Coaching) to guide their human-centered AI integration, executive restoration, and frontline renewal strategies long after the conference ends.
Facilitator
Joanne Vázquez de Príncipe is Founder & CEO, Purposeful Coaching LLC d/b/a Purposeful Advising & Coaching.
Vázquez de Príncipe is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Purposeful Coaching, a boutique firm offering organizational management thought leadership, group development engagements, consulting, and leadership coaching for emerging leaders. She is also an affiliate and member of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) and Center for Credentialing Education (CCE), a Board Certified Coach (BCC) exam item writer, item reviewer, and subject matter expert serving as coaching industry standards setter.
As an Associate Faculty member of Doctoral Organizational Behavior at the College, Vázquez de Príncipe educates and evaluates the curriculum of business and doctoral leadership programs. Her career spans more than three decades of multidisciplinary experience across professional services industries, including legal, non-profit, finance, and government, with specialties ranging from global human capital management to change enablement and organizational development excellence to strategic planning initiatives.
Joanne Vázquez de Príncipe , DM, is recognized as a scholar, practitioner, and industry leader. The Doctor’s career spans more than three decades of multidisciplinary experience in business and academia. Her career progressed throughout the years within several professional services industries, such as legal, non-profit, finance, and government, with specialties ranging from global human capital management to change enablement and organizational development excellence to strategic planning initiatives. She is the former enterprise Change Management Leader at a prominent regional public transportation institution in New York, USA. As an industry subject matter expert (SME) public speaker, she presented at various community events such as the International Maintenance Conference (IMC), Women in Reliability and Asset Management (WIRAM), and the Asset Management Association’s (AMA) Asset Management Ecosystem (AME) Forum. Presently, she is a National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) and Center for Credentialing Education (CCE) affiliate, member, Board Certified Coach (BCC) exam item writer, item reviewer, and SME serving as coaching industry standards setter. Currently, she provides leadership coaching services for the prominent affiliate organizations of Torch Leadership Labs, USA. Also, Dr. Joanne is currently an Associate Faculty member of Doctoral Organizational Behavior at the College of Doctoral Studies affiliated with the University of Phoenix, USA, and a Fellow-in-Residence for the Center of Leadership Studies and Organizational Research (CLSOR) with the same. Scholarly activities have included presenting at the Knowledge Without Borders (KWB) Summit on numerous occasions as a researcher and International Leadership Association (ILA) member. She has served as an ILA conference proposal reviewer, global conference speaker, and member of several community special interest groups. Dr. Príncipe received her doctorate in Management specializing in Organizational Leadership, and her doctoral dissertation was “Investigating Leadership and Human-Intelligences During Public-Sector Organizational Change: A Mixed-Methods Study” (2021). Most recently, research concepts and principles of the study were applied to The Evolution of Human Resources Management in the Post-Pandemic World (Príncipe, 2024), chapter one of the premier reference book, Effective Human Resources Management in the Multigenerational Workplace (Even & Christiansen, 2024). This chapter integrated evidence-based insights, human-centric metrics, and a holistic, integrative framework while examining the human resources management (HRM) discipline through research and innovative strategic practices intersecting business leadership and organizational culture. Additionally, The Work-Life Dynamics Cultural Impact: Evolving the Future of Strategic Holistic Ecosystems Post Pandemic (Príncipe, 2023), a chapter in the premier reference source, Measuring the Effectiveness of Organizational Development Strategies During Unprecedented Times (Tennin, 2023). This chapter explores the benefits of leveraging strategic tactics incorporating holistic approaches throughout cross-functional ecosystems with a deep dive into core work-life dynamics associated with organizational effectiveness, culture transformations, and change leadership aspects impacting the evolution of the organizational development (OD) discipline. Furthermore, The Third Culture People’s Impact: Evolving the Future of Management and Leadership in the Post-Pandemic Era (Príncipe, 2023), a chapter in the premier reference source entitled Examining Applied Multicultural Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Christiansen & Even, 2023). This chapter explored the benefits of leveraging business strategies, which incorporate third culture-building approaches throughout the entire organizational ecosystem, with a deep dive into people management and leadership. Dr. Vázquez de Príncipe is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Purposeful Coaching LLC d/b/a Purposeful Advising & Coaching, USA, a boutique firm offering organizational management thought leadership, group development engagements, consulting, and leadership coaching for high-achievers, high-potential, and high-performance emerging leaders. The firm employs science-based codesigned strategic engagements to help elevate individuals, organizations, and communities through experiential offerings for enhancing management ecosystems, catalyzing the art of self-leadership, uplifting the human spirit, change management, and beyond. She is an inspirational advocate, scholarly advisor, organizational culture transformation visionary, effectiveness sustainability architect, Appreciative Inquiry implementation coach, energy igniter, well-being ambassador, and work/life dynamics people whisperer. Personally, Joanne’s passionate life’s work is purposefully driven toward fostering holistic-oriented healthy organizations, communities, and leaders for a better world and the greater good! During moments of restorative rejuvenation self-care, Joanne spends quality time with her family, gardening, baking, nature hiking, reading, praying, meditating, journaling, exercising, and international exploration traveling. Orchid ID: 0000-0001-6510-0086