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The Forge Conversations

The Forge Conversations

By: Alain Coadou
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 A space for in-depth conversations on leadership, chronic stress, decision-making, and sustainable performance in complex environments. Each episode brings together experience from the field and insights from applied research, with leaders, researchers, and practitioners who think seriously about what it takes to perform without breaking. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.Alain Coadou Economics
Episodes
  • The Drift Begins: What Chronic Pressure Really Does to Leaders

    The Drift Begins: What Chronic Pressure Really Does to Leaders
    May 15 2026

    You're still answering emails. Still hitting targets. Still showing up. From the outside, everything looks fine.

    But what if the most dangerous moment in a leader's trajectory isn't burnout, but the long stretch before it? When everything still functions. When no one raises a flag. Not even you.

    In this first episode, Alain Coadou explores how chronic organizational pressure progressively reshapes the brain, body, and decision-making process of high-performing leaders, and introduces the FORGE framework as a path toward recalibration before collapse occurs.

    Topics include the neuroscience of threat response, the performance illusion, Selye's three phases of stress, and the five movements of FORGE: Focus, Overcome, Reinvent, Grow, and Excel.

    For leaders who recognize that running harder to stay in the same place is not a strategy.


    Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
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