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2-Hour Virtual Seminar on Surviving Toxic Management While Still Creating a Positive Work Environment
March 9, 2026
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
2 Hours
39518
Group Attendees: Any number of participants
Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
Working under toxic management doesn't mean you're powerless or that a healthy work experience is impossible.
In this practical and empowering webinar, you'll learn how professionals and teams can survive toxic leadership while still creating pockets of positivity, trust, and productivity. Through real-world examples and realistic strategies, this session shows how to protect your mindset, maintain professional standards, and positively influence your immediate environment even when senior leadership falls short. Whether you are an individual contributor, supervisor, or HR professional, you will gain tools to reduce damage, support others, and preserve your career momentum without naïve optimism or unnecessary risk.Why You Should Attend:
- Understand how toxic management behaviors impact teams and organizational culture
- Identify what you can and cannot control when working under toxic leadership
- Learn strategies to protect morale, professionalism, and psychological safety
- Develop techniques for influencing your immediate work environment without formal authority
- Strengthen communication and boundary-setting skills under difficult conditions
- Support colleagues and teams while avoiding burnout or retaliation
- Create a realistic action plan for surviving and potentially improving a toxic situation
Are you interested in understanding how toxic management behaviors impact teams and organizational culture?
Would it help to learn strategies for influencing your immediate work environment without formal authority?
How about creating a realistic action plan for surviving - and potentially improving - a toxic situation?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us through answering these important questions and improving performance!
Areas Covered in the Session:
- What Toxic Management Looks Like in Day-to-Day Operations
- The Ripple Effects of Toxic Leadership on Teams and Culture
- Control vs. Influence: Focusing Your Energy Where It Matters
- Creating Psychological Safety in Small, Practical Ways
- Building Trust and Positivity Within Your Team or Peer Group
- Communicating Upward Without Escalating Conflict
- Setting Boundaries While Remaining Professional
- Avoiding Burnout, Cynicism, and Emotional Exhaustion
- Supporting Others Without Becoming the Fixer
- When and How to Document or Escalate Concerns
- Balancing Survival Strategies with Career Growth
- Knowing When Improvement Is Possible and When to Plan an Exit
- Developing a Personal or Team Survival and Positivity Plan
Who Will Benefit:
- All
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
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