May 5, 2026 | 8:45 – 10:30am ET
Why Your Team’s Resilience Matters More Than Yours
You’re invited to a special in-person event hosted by
Admired Leadership at The Pittsburgh Foundation. Join Diana Futrovsky, Managing Director, and John Cook, Executive Coach and Partner at CRA | Admired Leadership, for an engaging session that explores how the best leaders build teams that thrive under pressure.
When team members feel more responsible to each other than to you, they develop a different level of resilience. They support each other because the relationship matters, not because they were told to. Teams that process adversity together, with leaders who frame challenges effectively and celebrate how the team responds, build the collective capacity to maintain performance even when individuals struggle.
These in-person events bring together senior leaders across every demographic and industry to think differently about the practicality and implementation of leadership development. Although each event has a specific topic of focus, every gathering includes discussion about what the best leaders actually do differently.
Join us in Pittsburgh for this unique opportunity to explore how the best leaders build teams that thrive under pressure. Whether you’re leading emerging talent or seasoned professionals, you’ll leave with practical tools to inspire growth, protect focus, and build the kind of motivation that sustains high performance.
Leaders make people and situations better!
Drawing from Admired Leadership’s 40 years of studying extraordinary leaders, we will explore:
- How to develop your team’s emotional agility and resilience now, before challenges or setbacks occur
- Why teams must face challenges together—and how leaders facilitate this
- The critical role of framing adversity through language and communication
- When and how to show up during setbacks to reinforce collective resilience
- The difference between handling failure versus error
- What great leaders protect and celebrate—and why it matters for long-term team performance
John Cook, Partner. John is a trusted advisor to senior leaders, partnering to develop their organizations and build the leadership and communication skills essential for driving results. He coaches senior leaders through critical decisions involving feedback, relationships, performance management, talent development, succession planning, and communication style. With deep experience across industries and geographies, John brings a pragmatic, global perspective to every engagement.
Diana Futrovsky, Managing Director. Diana partners with leaders and teams to simplify the complex, boost team alignment, and generate results. She helps develop and execute internal strategies that make teams more effective and leaders more credible.
Join Us at The Pittsburgh Foundation
The event will take place at The Pittsburgh Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest community foundations since 1945, serving greater Pittsburgh as the 18th largest of more than 750 such foundations across the United States.
Date:
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Location
912 Ft. Duquesne Blvd, Floor 10
Pittsburgh PA 15222