Navigating Change with Clarity: Building Resilience through Powerful Questions and Facilitation
In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing workplace, change leaders must be adept at fostering resilience within their teams. Resilient teams can adapt, stay engaged, and support each other, even amid uncertainty. But resilience doesn’t happen by accident—it’s cultivated through clarity, trust, and connection.
This interactive session empowers change management professionals with a powerful yet often overlooked tool: strategic questioning. Just as resilient systems are stress-tested through thoughtful analysis, resilient teams can be strengthened by leaders who ask intentional questions that surface insights, build trust, and spark innovation. Participants will explore the parallels between technical system resilience and human resilience, discovering how intentional inquiry can help their teams navigate change with confidence.
Key takeaways will include:
- Strategies for building trust and engagement through open-ended questions
- Techniques to guide teams toward self-reflection and accountability without micromanagement
- How to use inquiry to identify and address "interference" factors that slow progress in change initiatives
Attendees will leave with practical tools to foster resilience in their organizations, boost team performance, and create a culture of collaboration and psychological safety. By asking the right questions, leaders can drive alignment and innovation, ensuring their teams not only survive change but thrive through it.
Whether you’re facilitating small discussions or leading large-scale transformations, this session will help you lead with clarity, empowering your teams to become adaptable, agile, and resilient.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Anna Stumpf
Dr. Anna Stumpf is an accomplished leadership coach, facilitator, and educator with a focus of experience helping technical leaders and mid-level managers thrive in dynamic environments. As the founder of Collective Energy, Anna partners with professional services firms to address the "Double Skills Gap"—a challenge where highly skilled professionals promoted for technical expertise often struggle to lead people, manage projects, and engage clients effectively.
Anna draws on her extensive background in leadership development, including roles with the world’s largest company and higher education, where she led nationally ranked graduate programs. Certified in EQ-i 2.0 and known for her engaging, research-driven approach, she combines emotional intelligence insights with practical strategies to help leaders navigate complexity and foster resilient, high-performing teams.
In addition to her consulting work, Anna is a sought-after speaker for workshops and conferences, recognized for her ability to translate theory into actionable learning. She is passionate about equipping leaders with the tools they need to balance performance demands and well-being, creating sustainable change within their organizations.
Anna holds a Master of Arts in Teaching, an MBA, and a Doctorate in Marketing and additional certifications in workplace empathy and resilience. Whether guiding clients through individual coaching or facilitating team learning experiences, she is dedicated to helping leaders and organizations cultivate lasting growth and adaptability.
