EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN LEADERSHIP
Lead with greater composure, clarity and confidence—even when pressure builds.
For Leaders Who Want to Connect Deeply, Decide Wisely, and Communicate Powerfully.
What happens to your leadership when pressure takes over?
Perhaps you recognise some of these moments:
🔹 Your frustration speaks before you do. A team member makes the same mistake again, and your tone becomes sharper than you intended.
🔹 Anxiety makes you hesitate. You need to challenge a colleague or raise a concern with someone senior, but worry about their reaction keeps you quiet.
🔹 Everything starts to feel urgent. You struggle to step back, weigh up your options and decide what genuinely needs your attention.
🔹 You say yes when you need to set a limit. You want to be supportive, but your own workload and resentment keep growing.
Recognising these patterns gives you a starting point for understanding what you need—and what you want to change.
How you recognise and manage your emotions matters—to you, to your decisions and to the people you lead.
This programme helps you develop the emotional intelligence to understand your reactions, manage pressure and communicate more assertively. You’ll explore how to remain thoughtful and effective in demanding situations, while recognising your limits and protecting your wellbeing.
A practical programme for women and men who want to strengthen the emotional side of their leadership.
Course Details
Date: 21st October
Weekly Sessions: 17:00–18:30 CET Wednesdays
Duration: 6 x 90-minute sessions over 6 weeks
Format: Online
Group Size: Small group setting
Cost: €350 per participant
Additional: €150 Emotional Quotient (EQ) Psychometric Test - Not obligatory but highly recommended.
What You’ll Gain from the E.I. Programme
💡 Heightened self-awareness and leadership clarity - Develop a deeper understanding of how your emotions, self-perception, and internal drivers shape your leadership behaviour.
💡 Authentic and confident leadership communication - Strengthen your ability to express yourself clearly, assertively, and professionally, even in challenging or high-stakes conversations.
💡 Stronger relationships and interpersonal effectiveness - Enhance your ability to read emotional dynamics, build trust, and lead through relationships.
✅ Emotional self-awareness understand what's happening with you.
In practice: noticing that you feel threatened by a colleague’s question before you respond defensively.
✅ Impulse control: create space before you act: In practice: pausing before sending an angry email or interrupting someone whose view you disagree with.
✅ Stress tolerance: stay effective when demands increase
In practice: when several deadlines collide, taking stock and agreeing priorities with your team instead of passing your urgency on to everyone around you.
✅ Assertiveness: express yourself clearly and respectfully
In practice: addressing repeated missed deadlines directly, or telling your manager what you can realistically deliver with the resources available.
✅ Empathy: understand others while maintaining expectations. In practice: exploring why someone’s performance has changed while being clear about what needs to improve.
✅ Recognising your limits: lead with greater awareness of your wellbeing. In practice: recognising that repeatedly working late and becoming impatient with your team is a signal to review workload and expectations.
Are you ready to step in?
This isn’t just another E.I. Programme.
What others have said about this programme:
Jake Newstead
Johanna’s coaching has been instrumental in setting myself up for success going forward in my career. Through personal reflection in her sessions, I now have a clear understanding of what drives me in my career, and how I can use this as a framework to progress. Johanna’s coaching style has been incredibly effective in asking the right questions, guiding me to a place where I now feel confident enough to step outside of my comfort zone and work towards a career change that aligns with my core values and strengths. Thank you, Johanna, for all your help!
Global Corporate Buyer @ Menswear
Tessa Reed
Johanna is an incredible mentor and business coach. My sessions with Johanna were structured around personal career goals, and importantly, how to put them into action. She helps you unpack your values and how you can best shape your career to feel fulfilled, confident, and motivated. I left Johanna's sessions feeling confident and excited about my future!
Johanna is thoughtful, a great listener, and comes with a huge amount of her own business experience which is invaluable. Thank you for your sessions.
Senior Account Executive @ Braze
Akua Nyame-Mensah
The sessions gave me the space to pause, process, and reset. Even though things felt out of my control, I could still choose how I respond.
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