Insights from the Couch: What Your Leaders Aren't Telling You About Their Jobs and Their Well-being
 

Join Kristen Tolbert, Founder and CEO of The ACP Group, along with our executive psychologists and invited experts in executive health, for an unfiltered look into what leaders are actually navigating under pressure.

These are not surface-level conversations. They draw on recurring patterns identified across thousands of executive engagements, reflecting what leaders are navigating but rarely share publicly or inside their organizations.

What Leaders are Navigating 

These forums surface the patterns leaders encounter but rarely name while they’re still inside the role and explain why organizations often recognize them too late.

What leaders disclose varies by role with direct implications for retention, risk, and leadership continuity.  

What You’ll Hear

• Psychological insights drawn from recurring executive decision-making and recovery patterns

• Clinical and operational perspectives from specialists in executive healthcare, cognition, endurance, and performance

• Emerging patterns in how sustained pressure is reshaping leader capacity, judgment, and recovery

• How organizations are rethinking support for leaders in high-stakes roles

• What’s changing in executive mental health, leader endurance, and organizational stability

Why It Matters

The emotional and strategic load leaders carry is often invisible, even to those closest to them. Left unaddressed, it becomes the silent driver of burnout, turnover, conflict, and compromised decision-making.

These dynamics are most often understood only after leaders exit their roles, offering a retrospective view that organizations rarely have access to in real time.

We’ll examine what is eroding leader capacity, how high-performing leaders are coping behind the scenes, and what organizations can do to protect the minds driving the business.

This is a conversation every organization needs to hear. 

^{_{*Note: Insights shared in this forum are derived from aggregated, anonymized themes across our work with leaders in multiple industries. No personal health information (PHI) or identifying details are disclosed. All content is generalized to preserve confidentiality and adhere to privacy and ethical standards.}}