How long does an engagement typically run?

Most engagements run 90 days to a year, long enough to actually change behavior, not just deliver a workshop and disappear. Shorter formats exist for a single keynote, workshop series, or diagnostic, and the exact scope and schedule get set during the discovery call.

Do you work with remote, hybrid, or in-person teams?

Yes, all three, and the method does not lose anything over video. Programs are delivered remotely, in person, or hybrid, built around your team's locations and schedule.

What size organizations do you typically work with?

HR leaders and executives at companies of roughly 50 to 500 employees. Every engagement is scoped to the specific leaders, teams, and goals involved.

How is this different from a typical performance program?

This is skills training in how stress changes the brain, not a perk or a one-off speaker event. Participants leave with practical regulation methods they can use under real workplace pressure, which is what produces behavior change that holds.

Leadership & Performance Coaching

Neuroscience-Informed Coaching & Training for Leaders and Teams

Colleagues collaborating in a modern workplace

Unmanaged Stress Is Costing You Your Best People and Your Culture.

Pressure can affect how leaders communicate, make decisions, and respond to others. We help leaders recognize reactive patterns and practice more constructive responses, while considering the organizational conditions contributing to the problem.

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How much is pressure costing your team?

HR leaders and executives can answer ten questions about their team in about 2 minutes. The Stress Score summarizes their answers into a score and risk band covering decision fatigue, psychological safety, burnout and turnover, and communication breakdown. It is a directional indicator based on those answers, not a clinical diagnostic.

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Leadership and culture development for professionals across Harvard University's programs.

A 14-week global leadership curriculum delivered for Warner Bros. Discovery during its merger.

Working with HR leaders and executives since 2017.

The Problem

When pressure rises, existing leadership and team challenges can become harder to manage.

Reactive leadership and difficult conversations.
Recurring conflict and communication breakdowns.
Teams struggling to stay engaged through change.

We help you understand where stress-related behavior is contributing, and where broader organizational action may be needed.

"Roughly 40% of employees worldwide said they experienced a lot of stress during the previous day."

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026

When leaders and employees lack the skills to regulate stress, even strong strategy and culture work can't hold. WorksWell Systems trains your people to recognize stress responses in real time and shift back into clear, collaborative thinking, building resilience that compounds across the organization.

Our Method

The Neuroscience Approach

WorksWell Systems' programs are grounded in neuroscience and emotional-intelligence research, drawing on the work of leading researchers in trauma, attachment, and flow states.

Understand the team's challenges and agree on goals.
Identify recurring responses under pressure.
Practice communication and regulation skills using relevant situations.
Reinforce learning through coaching and follow-up.

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Outcomes

What you can expect to see

Engagement

We help teams practice staying steady under pressure, so people can take part in meetings and decisions more constructively.

Communication

Leaders learn observable skills: noticing their own reactivity, pausing, listening, and responding clearly.

Retention

Leadership development is one part of a broader retention strategy. Stronger skills under pressure help leaders support the people who work for them.

Risk

We emphasize respectful conduct and clear expectations for how people treat one another. This training complements, and does not replace, your policies, reporting channels, investigations and accountability.

Engagement options

Ways to work together

Pricing is scoped to your team. Book a 30-minute call to discuss.

Pilot workshop: Book a 30-minute call; One half-day leadership session, a low-risk way to test the method with your team.
Team program: Book a 30-minute call; A multi-session series scoped to the size and goals of your group.
Ongoing partnership: Book a 30-minute call; Quarterly training plus one-to-one executive coaching, quoted after the discovery call.

Meet Lisa

Lisa Petrocchi-Merriman, M.A.

Executive Coach and Culture Consultant

Master's degree in Psychology and 20 years of clinical experience
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion certificate from Cornell University
Based in Portland, Oregon, and Silicon Valley, California.

At a glance

Key facts about WorksWell Systems

Leadership and performance consulting, training, and executive coaching, serving organizations across the United States since 2017.
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Delivery formats: remote, in-person, hybrid.
Pricing is scoped to your team. Book a 30-minute call to discuss.
Contact: lisamerriman@workswell.info, +1-669-208-2194.

FAQ

Questions about working together

Ready to get started?

Every engagement starts with listening. Tell us what's happening in your organization, and we'll design a training and coaching path that fits.

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