NY Tech Week Prep: Building Resilient Founders and Teams
Build Resilience & Relational Intelligence as a Founder
A tactical session for early-stage founders heading into NYC Tech Week
Founding a startup is emotionally demanding—uncertainty, rejection, and constant decision-making come with the job. What sets thriving founders apart? The ability to stay resilient, communicate clearly, and build strong, aligned teams.
This interactive workshop gives early-stage founders and co-founders research-backed tools to strengthen their leadership, navigate team dynamics, and show up with clarity and confidence in high-stakes moments.
Why Attend?
Gain immediate, tactical tools to enhance leadership and communication skills
Learn how to identify and leverage relational strengths to build a stronger team
Develop a resilient mindset to handle high-pressure situations
Walk away with a concrete diagnostic tool for self and team assessment
Key Learning Objectives:
Understand Your Leadership & Relational Style: Identify how your attachment style influences your leadership, decision-making, and team interactions.
Navigate Team Challenges Effectively: Recognize common co-founder and early-team conflicts and develop strategies for resolving them.
Build Resilience to Handle Uncertainty and Thrive: Learn and apply resilience-building strategies to manage rejection, stress, and uncertainty in the startup journey.
Take Home a Personalized Playbook: Receive a practical diagnostic tool to assess and improve team dynamics immediately.
Presenters:
Annie Garofalo (Stanford MBA/MA Sociology) is the founder of Confidante, and a leading expert helping early-stage co-founders build resilient, high-functioning partnerships. Drawing on frameworks from couples therapy and organizational psychology, her 12-week Partnership Agreement Program has supported 50+ founding teams from YC, Sequoia, a16z, and beyond in preventing the co-founder conflict that kills high potential startup teams.
Dr. Sabina Nagpal is the founder of Radiate, a practice dedicated to helping high performers and organizations achieve optimal health, wellbeing, and performance. With a background in medicine and a focus on fulfillment, Dr. Nagpal’s approach combines evidence-based mental health practices with strategies to prevent burnout and promote sustained success. She has worked with thousands of individuals and teams to uncover blind spots and foster resilience