Elevate How You Lead, Work & Thrive
Stoked.live workshops are built for professionals who want to lead with greater clarity, strengthen team culture, and perform at their best under real-world pressure. Through immersive, science-based learning experiences, we translate the research of Organizational Psychology, Neuroscience, and workplace wellness into practical skills participants can apply immediately—in meetings, conversations, and high-stakes decisions.
Each workshop blends interactive exercises, expert facilitation, and evidence-based tools to help individuals improve communication, decision-making, resilience, and human connection. Whether focused on Stoked Leadership, Stoked Culture, or Unlocking Your Inner Stoked, every experience is designed to help people and teams create the conditions where trust grows, energy is sustainable, and high performance becomes a shared reality.
Cohorts:
Build Your Best Work: The Stoked Leadership Cohort
Build the career you want—one that feels meaningful, energizing, and aligned with who you are becoming. Through our weekly live cohort, Dr. Jacob Engelskirger leads a guided one-hour virtual experience for professionals who want to grow as leaders, strengthen their self-awareness, and sharpen the skills that drive lasting success. Each session combines evidence-based behavioral science with real conversation, helping you apply practical insights to communication, leadership, confidence, decision-making, and resilience. You’ll learn alongside a community of peers, reflect on your progress, and develop the awareness, habits, and perspective that help high-performing professionals lead with greater clarity, purpose, and impact—at work and beyond.
Six weekly sessions every Thursday at 2:00pm – 3:30pm PST. First session begins August 27th, 2026
Reserve your seat now: $495
Current Workshops:
The Network Advantage: How High Performers Build Opportunity
A live workshop designed for professionals who want to build stronger relationships, expand opportunity, and create meaningful momentum in their careers. Led through the lens of Organizational Psychology and behavioral science, this experience teaches the practical mechanics of authentic connection: how curiosity strengthens conversations, how self-awareness improves presence, and how trust grows through thoughtful follow-up. Participants leave with actionable tools to network with more confidence, build lasting professional relationships, and become the kind of leader others remember, recommend, and want to work with. Ideal for managers, project leaders, and professionals across the San Francisco Bay Area who want to turn connection into a long-term advantage.
Six weekly sessions every Tuesday at 2:00pm – 3:30pm PST. First session begins September 15th, 2026
Reserve your seat now: $495
Stoked.live & PMI: Perform your best at work and in life
An immersive workshop for professionals who want to sharpen performance at work without sacrificing clarity, energy, or well-being. Grounded in Neuroscience, Organizational Psychology, and movement science, this hands-on experience teaches how to lead effectively under pressure, regulate stress in real time, and create team environments where people think clearly and work better together. Participants explore the science behind decision-making, burnout, focus, ergonomics, and communication through interactive labs, guided exercises, and practical tools they can use immediately—whether leading a project, managing a team, or navigating the demands of fast-moving work across the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Discover What Your Team Needs to Thrive
Every organization faces unique challenges, from developing effective leaders and building trust to strengthening collaboration and sustaining performance under pressure. Our science-backed workshops address these challenges through three interconnected dimensions of Employee Effectiveness:
Stoked Leadership — How We Lead: Developing leaders who create clarity, inspire trust, align people around shared goals, and turn direction into action.
Stoked Culture — How We Work Together: Building psychologically safe environments where teams communicate openly, collaborate across boundaries, and work together effectively.
Unlock Your Inner Stoked — How We Perform: Strengthening the physical, mental, and behavioral capabilities that support resilience, focus, well-being, and sustainable high performance.
Led by doctoral-level psychologists and multidisciplinary experts, our workshops translate the science of human behavior into practical strategies for lasting improvement. Explore the topics below to discover where your team or organization can make the greatest gains in effectiveness:
Communicate with Clarity and Confidence: The Psychology of Assertive Communication
The strongest leaders know how to communicate with both confidence and respect. Learn the science behind communication styles, why assertiveness drives trust and execution, and how to move conversations forward without creating unnecessary friction. Participants leave with practical tools to improve influence, alignment, and leadership presence in high-stakes environments.
Perform Under Pressure: The Science of Stress, Resilience, and Sustainable Performance
Pressure is inevitable. Burnout is not. Discover how stress impacts thinking, decision-making, relationships, and performance. Learn evidence-based strategies to regulate your nervous system, maintain focus under pressure, and build a personalized framework for long-term resilience.
Build Relationships That Create Opportunity: The Psychology of Networking and Connection
In the Bay Area, careers move at the speed of relationships. Learn how authentic connection creates opportunities, why curiosity is the foundation of great networking, and how to build a professional network that supports growth, learning, and career momentum.
Turn Conflict into Progress: The Psychology of Difficult Conversations
Great teams do not avoid conflict—they navigate it effectively. Learn proven approaches for managing disagreements, understanding different conflict styles, improving active listening, and creating conversations that strengthen trust while solving problems.
Communicate Effectively When Stakes Are High: The OIR Framework for Leadership Conversations
High-pressure conversations require more than good intentions. Learn the neuroscience behind effective communication during conflict, uncertainty, and change. Master a practical framework that helps leaders communicate with clarity, confidence, and emotional intelligence when it matters most.
Understand Yourself to Lead Others: Leadership Assessments and Workplace Development
Personality and leadership assessments can unlock powerful insights when used correctly. Explore leading workplace assessment tools and learn how self-awareness, strengths, motivations, and behavioral patterns influence leadership effectiveness, team dynamics, and career growth.
Build Resilience in a Burnout Culture: Preventing Burnout and Sustaining Energy
High performers often know how to push forward. Fewer know how to recover strategically. Learn the science of burnout, challenge common myths, and develop practical systems that support energy, engagement, and long-term success.
Sleep Like a High Performer: The Hidden Competitive Advantage
Sleep influences nearly every aspect of performance—focus, creativity, decision-making, emotional regulation, and leadership effectiveness. Learn practical strategies to improve sleep quality and create habits that support both personal well-being and professional success.
The Relationship Between Life and Work: Building a Foundation for Sustainable Success
The quality of our relationships influences the quality of our performance. Explore how personal relationships affect leadership, resilience, communication, and workplace effectiveness—and learn strategies for creating greater alignment across all areas of life.
Building Cultures Where People Thrive: Creating High-Trust, High-Performance Teams
The best cultures are intentionally designed. Learn how trust, belonging, psychological safety, and shared purpose create environments where people perform at their highest level while remaining connected, engaged, and resilient.
Unlocking the Power of Neurodiverse Teams: Different Minds. Stronger Results.
Innovation thrives when teams leverage different ways of thinking. Learn how neurodiversity shapes communication, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration, and how leaders can create environments where diverse cognitive strengths become competitive advantages.
Focus in a Distracted World: Mindfulness for Leadership and Performance
Mindfulness is not just about slowing down; it is about becoming more intentional. Learn evidence-based practices that improve focus, emotional regulation, decision-making, and leadership presence in fast-moving professional environments.
