Instructor: Brett Larson

Biography: Brett Larson is a leadership development professional and Certified Professional Coach (CPC) with over 29 years of leadership experience across private and nonprofit organizations. He is the author of Discovering Leaders Within: A modern guide for cultivating your team's potential. In his coaching work, Brett has worked with clients approaching retirement to design a new chapter in their lives that brings fulfillment and meaning.

Brett's work emphasizes practical tools grounded in research, reflective practice, and real-world application in people-centered environments. His facilitation style is highly interactive, focused on discussion, practical examples, and immediately usable takeaways.

Classes by this instructor

Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety

Psychological safety is the shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. It is one of the most consistently identified predictors of high-performing teams, yet it is often talked about in the abstract without a clear picture of how to actually build it. This workshop grounds the concept in two concrete, actionable domains: the specific leadership behaviors that create safety day to day, and the organizational systems that welcome people in, support their growth, and encourage their participation.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 9:00am-12:00pm PDT | Redmond

Understanding, Overcoming and Preventing Burnout

Burnout is not simply a matter of working too hard, it is what happens when the demands of a role chronically outpace the resources a person has to meet them. This then leads to cynicism and self-doubt. This workshop gives participants a clear, research-grounded model for recognizing burnout in themselves and their teams. We share practices for overcoming and avoiding burnout. We discuss and define how to build organizational conditions that prevent burnout from taking hold in the first place. In this interactive workshop, participants will work through the six organizational factors most strongly linked to burnout (workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values alignment). We then assess how to create an environment that minimizes these causes. Rather than treating burnout simply as a personal failing to be managed with resilience tips, this session reframes it as a culture-design problem, giving leaders concrete levers they can actually pull.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 | 9:00am-12:00pm PST | Bend