Your Nervous System Is the Real CEO: How Regulation Transforms Leadership

Dec 30, 2025, 5:30 – 5:45 PM (UTC)

Houston

End of the year often leads to feeling stuck, scattered, or second-guessing your every move? It might not be your strategy—it might be your nervous system. Join this masterclass to understand how stress responses hijack your leadership and learn a practical 3-step tool to lead with clarity, confidence, and calm—even under pressure.

Virtual event

About this event

If you’ve ever:

  • Overthought a decision to the point of paralysis,
  • Said “yes” just to avoid conflict,
  • Burned yourself out chasing an idea that didn’t even feel right…

…it’s time to stop blaming your calendar, your team, or your business model—and start looking at what’s really running the show: your nervous system.

In a world that celebrates speed, hustle, and constant pivoting, we rarely get taught how to pause. And yet, your body’s internal signals determine how you show up in every conversation, negotiation, and decision.

Join communication strategist and leadership advisor Michele Price for this short, powerful masterclass on how your nervous system shapes your leadership—and how to regulate it so you can access real clarity and creativity.

You’ll walk away with:

  1. A clear understanding of how your body’s stress responses show up in daily leadership moments
  2. Examples of how dysregulation impacts your decision-making, communication, and boundaries
  3. A 3-step tool you can use instantly to pause, re-center, and lead with integrity under pressure

This session is especially for founders, startup teams, advisors, and emerging leaders navigating high-stakes roles. You don’t need another tactic—you need a grounded, wiser way to lead.

This is your reset button. Let’s press it together.

(Yes, you can count on us giving you concise, powerful, and digestible masterclasses, now and into 2026)


Michele Price + James Phelan

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Speaker

  • Michele Price

    Breakthrough Business Strategies

    Founder

Hosts

  • Michele Price

    Breakthrough Business Strategies

    Founder

  • James Phelan

    Village Insights

    Co-Founder CCO

Organizers

  • Michele Price

    Breakthrough Business Strategies

    Houston's Chapter Director

  • James Phelan

    Village Insights

    Partnership Director

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