Own Your Armor™ · Team Performance
Why doesn’t your team say what it thinks?
A team workshop to build trust, accountability, and real communication. For teams too polite to name what’s actually going on.
A team workshop to build trust, accountability, and real communication. For teams too polite to name what’s actually going on.
Mapping the unintended impacts and team patterns can bring down the armor.
Armor is psychological defense: the self-protective behavior that fear in corporate life evokes. Defensiveness, frustration, shutting down, going numb. Useful for the person in the moment, costly for the team (Brody, 2022).
This model, developed by psychologist and executive coach Dr. Michelle Brody, helps teams safely recognize their threats and patterns, defuse the vicious cycles, and shift toward productive communication and trust.
Strong visual metaphors help the team understand: there are no bad apples, only armored teams. Moving from blame to team ownership is a key part of the skill.
The method leverages organizational development frameworks and emotional intelligence methods, rooted in performance and neuroscience.
Each person identifies how they self-protect and why.
A shared map of hidden patterns that block collaboration.
Structured, supported space to name what’s been avoided.
Move from blame to ownership with a shared language.
Clear commitments for better team communication.
A real shift in how the team shows up and works together.
Executive and team coach with 10+ years of global experience in leadership development, team dynamics, and organizational change. Certified Organizational Development consultant and first Own Your Armor™ facilitator in Switzerland. Delivered inside the Performance Under Pressure approach for teams.
The corporate hub: team coaching, ready-to-go trainings, and organizational change under pressure.
Learn moreFor the leader’s own high-stakes conversations: clear, concise, without shrinking.
Learn moreTeams with unspoken dynamics, emotions that hide under the table, conflict avoidance, or people who can’t speak up. The team co-owns the dynamics they create together.
To recognize both internal and external threats, the physiology of defensiveness, frustration, shutting down, and going numb, and how the different armor patterns show up in the team.
A model developed by psychologist and executive coach Dr. Michelle Brody (Own Your Armor, 2022). Unspoken threats trigger self-protective armor; the unintended impacts ripple through the team. Mapping the cycle defuses it and shifts stuck mindsets toward trust.
Team-building creates a good day. This maps the specific cycle blocking your team and targets the inhibitors of trust, authenticity, and high performance, with a shared language the team keeps using afterward.
Half or full day, with self-assessments and tailored prep calls beforehand so the group work lands on your team’s real patterns. The Own Your Armor book pre-read is optional.
