Leading Under Pressure:
Business-Critical Decisions, Values, and Performance in High-Strain Moments
In high-pressure environments, stress doesn’t just impact people, it drives decision quality, risk exposure, productivity, and retention. This program equips HR and business leaders to maintain decision quality, manage risk exposure, and protect performance and retention when organizations operate under sustained high pressure.
Participants will:
- analyze how high‑strain conditions influence operational and people‑related risks, identify patterns that drive costly errors, and apply leadership and system‑level frameworks to strengthen organizational resilience during critical moments.
- explore how cognitive overload, fatigue, and unexamined behavioral responses increase operational risk and costly errors and how practical leadership habits, decision frameworks, and support systems mitigate these impacts.
- leave with actionable leadership strategies to sustain clarity, consistency, and ethical decision-making under pressure while strengthening organizational resilience and long-term performance.
Date: April 23, 2026
Location: BP Energy Center
Networking begins at 11:30 AM – Share announcements, opportunities, and insights with fellow professionals.
Program begins at 11:45 AM – ASHRM updates and information.
Speaker presentation at 12:00 PM – Guest Speaker will deliver a one-hour session, followed by closing remarks from the ASHRM President.
Objectives:
1. Explain how high‑pressure operating environments impact organizational decision‑making, risk exposure, productivity, and talent retention.
2. Identify common pressure‑driven behavior patterns that increase operational and people‑related risk, and lead to costly risk/errors.
3. Apply leadership behaviors, habits, and decision frameworks that support values‑aligned, defensible business decisions under pressure.
4. Apply values-aligned decision frameworks so that business objectives and workplace culture are upheld ethically and strategically to protect performance, support leaders, and increase workforce resilience during critical moments.
About the Speaker
Naomi duCharme
https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomi-ducharme-83065691/
Naomi DuCharme is a strategic leader in health, safety, and workforce wellbeing with over 20 years of management experience spanning HR, safety, operations, and executive leadership. She is a Certified Professional Coach, Construction Health and Safety Technician, and Total Worker Health® facilitator who helps organizations address burnout, disengagement, substance misuse, and mental health through practical, systems-focused strategies that strengthen safety, performance, and resilience. Based in Alaska, Naomi is known for blending technical expertise with a grounded, human-centered approach.
Continuing education credit: 1 PDC
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