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30 Sep

Trained Not to Trust: How Nervous System Wiring Shapes Work, Leadership, and Decision-Making

Trained Not to Trust: How Nervous System Wiring Shapes Work, Leadership, and Decision-Making

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 (12:00 AM to 11:59 PM)
1.00 PDCs
Provider: 501(c) Services
Course Name: 501(c) Services Webcasts (1.00)

Speaker: Charmaine Green-Forde, PCC, SPHR, Founder and CEO, Chapter tOO; Benjamin Freedman, President and CEO, Weiser Innovations
Program Type: Videoconferences, webcasts, audiocasts, podcasts, eBooks, self-directed E-Learning
Registration URL: http://www.501c.com

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Recognize the signals of low trust in your organization's day to day decisions, and how they show up most sharply in hiring. Identify where familiarity, conventional résumés, and gut instinct are standing in for evidence in your people decisions. Apply a framework for building clearer, more structured, and more predictable systems that take unnecessary pressure off decision-makers.

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Trust isn't only a culture problem. It's also a physical one. Repeated experiences of clarity, consistency, ambiguity, and power get wired into the nervous system over time, and that wiring shows up in how people lead, communicate, and decide. In low-trust environments, people stop weighing evidence and start protecting themselves. Hiring is where it shows most. Under pressure, we default to what feels familiar: the conventional résumé, the candidate who seems like a good "culture fit," the gut call. Nonprofits feel this harder. Tight budgets, urgent missions, funding pressure, and strong convictions about the work raise the stakes on every decision. Higher stakes make the safe choice more tempting. You'll leave with a practical framework for spotting where low trust is shaping your organization's behavior, and for designing systems that are clearer, more structured, and more predictable. Less unnecessary threat, better decisions, and room for people and mission to both do well.