01 / Leadership practiceBetter Questions
Motivational Interviewing-informed curiosity, listening, and better decisions.
Leaders often inherit partial stories, strong emotions, and competing explanations. This session uses a Motivational Interviewing-informed lens to slow the rush toward advice, surface motivation and ambivalence, and improve the information behind the next decision.
Intended audienceLeaders, supervisors, managers, clinicians, educators, and teams that coach or guide behavior change.
Practical outcomesParticipants practice asking better questions, listening for values and barriers, reflecting what matters, and choosing next steps with better judgment.
People, Purpose & Performance
Develop people, keep mission visible, and maintain meaningful accountability.
Healthy organizations need more than caring intentions or performance pressure. This experience helps leaders connect people development, mission clarity, quality, outcomes, stewardship, and follow-through into one practical leadership rhythm.
Intended audienceExecutive teams, directors, managers, supervisors, board leaders, and emerging leaders responsible for people and results.
Practical outcomesParticipants identify where the system is out of balance, name the purpose behind the work, and design accountability that supports both growth and performance.
Leading Through Connection
Build trust while keeping expectations clear.
Connection is not the opposite of accountability. Leaders explore how safety, predictability, respect, and repair make it more likely that people will share accurate information, receive correction, and stay engaged when expectations are high.
Intended audienceLeaders, supervisors, educators, clinicians, and teams navigating conflict, change, performance concerns, or morale strain.
Practical outcomesParticipants practice expectation-setting, repair language, resistance responses, and conversations that preserve both relationship and standard.
Hope-Centered Leadership
Make progress credible through goals, pathways, and supported agency.
Hope becomes practical when people can see worthwhile goals, believable pathways, and support for taking the next step. This experience helps leaders make progress visible without pretending the barriers are small.
Intended audienceLeaders, supervisors, educators, helping professionals, and teams facing fatigue, transition, or complex change.
Practical outcomesParticipants translate broad goals into visible next steps, identify pathway barriers, and strengthen agency through communication, support, and follow-through.
TBRI for Executives
An executive-facing, relationship-based leadership experience for organizational application.
This original program helps executives and senior teams examine how safety, trust, regulation, voice, expectations, and correction show up in organizational life. The work translates relationship-based and trauma-responsive questions into leadership decisions, supervision, culture, and systems design.
Intended audienceExecutives, senior leaders, leadership teams, and human-service organizations that want relationship-based leadership to shape the operating system, not just the training calendar.
Practical outcomesParticipants consider how to create felt safety, empower choice and regulation, correct through relationship, and apply the principles to policies, meetings, supervision, and performance conversations.
Dr. Pemberton is a TBRI® Practitioner and may provide TBRI training independently. TBRI for Executives is Dr. Pemberton’s original executive program and does not reproduce restricted KPICD/TBRI instructor manuals, proprietary graphics, exercises, slides, or substantial protected wording.
06 / Trauma-responsive practiceTrauma-Responsive Leadership
See the need beneath behavior without lowering the standard.
Trauma-responsive leadership asks what a behavior may communicate, what the person may need in order to meet the expectation, and what the surrounding system can change. The standard remains visible while the response becomes more informed.
Intended audienceLeaders, supervisors, educators, child- and family-serving organizations, behavioral-health teams, and community programs.
Practical outcomesParticipants practice looking beneath behavior, reducing unnecessary escalation, supporting regulation, and responding in ways that keep expectations clear.