When everything's on the line, how do you stay calm, think clearly, and lead your team without spiraling into chaos? In this episode of Resilient Foundations, Rebecca breaks down a practical 5-pillar framework to help leaders make smart, confident decisions under intense pressure without falling into analysis paralysis or reckless gut calls.

In high-stakes leadership moments, decisions need to be made fast, but without sacrificing clarity or control. Drawing from real-world crisis scenarios, including operational disruption during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Rebecca shares powerful strategies to regulate your nervous system, process information rapidly, evaluate risk, and lead teams with clarity and compassion.

If you're navigating a major project failure or an organizational crisis, these five pillars will ground your thinking, protect your team's performance, and help you lead with resilience and resolve.

In this episode, you'll hear:

- Structured decision-making under pressure

- The physiological impact of stress on leadership clarity

- When to use gut instinct vs. data

- Framework: What's true, false, or under investigation

- Communication clarity in chaotic environments

- Worst-case scenario planning and inversion thinking

- Why mistakes happen and how resilient leaders respond

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Rebecca Plantz is a seasoned executive leader with more than 25 years of experience leading a variety of high-stakes crises and enterprise initiatives to achieve business transformation. Her experience in leading large, cross-functional teams to deliver innovative technology, AI-enabled platforms and operations, risk management programs, information security programs, and operational resilience resulted in a wealth of expertise and toolsets that will be shared.

Tough times create great leaders. Having led executives and front-line teams to survive more than 750 crises, Rebecca has honed what it takes to prepare for and lead in circumstances that require Olympic-level skills and readiness.