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Sprouting Change

The pressure isn't going away.
Let's get better at handling it.

The demands on people keep growing. When pressure outpaces capacity, performance and people both pay for it.

We help organizations build emotional endurance: practical skills to stay steady, communicate clearly, and recover faster when the pressure is on. In-person, virtual, and hybrid options for your group.

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"Phenomenal! And needed more than ever!"
T.C., COO

What we solve

Pressure is constant.
Capacity can be built.

Pressure

Deadlines, change, hard conversations, full plates. It isn't letting up.

Capacity

How much your people can carry before the strain shows up in their work and their relationships.

Emotional endurance

The capacity to stay steady when things get hard. And it's a skill people can build.

Sound familiar?

What pressure is costing
your organization.

Reactive communication

Short fuses, sharp emails, and conversations that escalate instead of resolve.

Decision fatigue

Capable people making slower, safer, or worse calls by mid-afternoon.

Strained relationships

Less patience, less trust, and more friction between people and teams.

Slow recovery

One hard day bleeds into the next week, and setbacks take longer to shake off.

These aren't just people problems.
They're signs of capacity under pressure.

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How we build it: Learn it. Feel it. Grow it.

Learn it

Speaking, workshops, the show and the books

Keynotes and workshops that open the door, plus a weekly show for the long haul.

Feel it · our flagship

The Emotional Endurance Carnival

30+ interactive booths where people practice the skills and keep the ones that fit.

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Grow it

COPE365 and the EEA

Start with the Emotional Endurance Assessment, our proprietary measure, then keep building. Every Carnival includes a year of COPE365.

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Finally, professional development
people actually want to do.

Serious skills. Ridiculously fun delivery. 30+ interactive booths, each one a coping skill in disguise. People choose their own path, try what's new, and keep what works for them.

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63% left better equipped for the next hard day. With specific tools they chose for themselves.
95%would tell a friend to come
7new skills unlocked per person, on average
2 in 3kept playing after they'd won their prize
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Tunnel of Tiny Triggers

Feel how fast everyday pings put your body on alert.

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The Lemon Pause

Practice the pause before you react.

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The Lemon Line

Say what you need to say. Naming it helps it settle.

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The Lemon Toss

Sort what's on your plate, and decide what to carry.

Not a keynote

No hour in a chair, no slides about stress, no handout that never gets read.

Not one tool for everyone

Not every tool works for every person. People try a dozen and keep the few that fit.

Professional development everyone can play

Interactive, self-paced, and choose-your-own-path, so every person finds a way in.

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The science is serious

The experience is fun.

Every booth is built on neuroscience and validated therapeutic approaches. Conscious Coping© is the skill you use in the moment. Psychological capital is the reserve you draw on. Together they build emotional endurance.

Conscious Coping+ Psychological Capital= Emotional Endurance

Who we are

A clinician and a behaviorist
walk into a carnival.

Laurie Sharp-Page

Laurie Sharp-Page, MS, LPCC-S, CWC

Co-Founder & Chief Coping Officer

A clinical counselor, author, speaker, and comedian who believes understanding ourselves shouldn't have to be so serious. Laurie combines clinical expertise with humor and practical tools to make the science of coping accessible, engaging, and genuinely useful in everyday life.

Crimson MacDonald

Crimson MacDonald

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

A marketing and political behaviorist who understands that knowing something and actually doing it are two very different things. Crimson turns behavioral science into creative, engaging experiences that challenge how people think, connect, and respond to the world around them.

Make your next event the one people talk about.

Life hands everybody lemons.
The Carnival teaches what to do next.

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Organizations that have worked with us

  • Florida Fire Chiefs' Association
  • Chief Probation Officers of California
  • NABITA
  • ATIXA
  • Club Management Association of America
  • MPI Ohio Chapter (Meeting Professionals International)
  • National Coalition of Black Meeting Professionals
  • Indiana Health Care Association
  • Wisconsin Assisted Living Association
  • North Dakota Safety Conference
  • First Work Ontario
  • Kentucky Association of Nurse Practitioners & Nurse-Midwives
  • Ohio Public Transit Association
  • Starling
  • Mercersburg Academy Women in Focus