CincySHRM Chapter Meeting: Enhancing Team Performance by Addressing Toxic Stress
Date: June 11, 2025
Time: 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Location
TriHealth Pavilion
From foggy thinking to missed deadlines, toxic stress is silently eroding workplace performance. In this session, learn how to stop it at the source.
What You’ll Learn:
Learn how toxic stress impacts the brain, especially the areas responsible for focus, problem-solving, and emotional control—and why stressed employees can’t just “push through.”
Understand the link between toxic stress and physical health issues like fatigue and illness, and how this contributes to absenteeism and declining team performance.
Discover how HR professionals can help shift employees out of survival mode by creating predictable, supportive environments that enhance engagement.
Gain trauma-informed strategies that foster psychological safety, trust, and resilience—without requiring clinical intervention.
Learn how to recognize signs of toxic stress in employee behavior and team dynamics, and respond in ways that promote regulation and cooperation.
Explore simple, actionable tools HR leaders can use to support employee well-being while improving productivity and reducing turnover.
About the Speaker
Julie Cooper, Ph.D., President, Trauma Free World – Julie researches, develops, and implements world-class, trauma-informed training and leads curriculum development for Trauma Free World. With extensive experience training internationally and focusing on vulnerable children, non-profit leadership and self-care, Dr. Cooper specializes in building trauma-informed training that anyone can put to use immediately, regardless of background or education.
