Workshop Series:

From Default to Deliberate

Many leadership teams operate under real pressure, working hard while results feel harder to reach. Beneath the surface, unnamed patterns can get in the way, impacting how people respond under pressure. These patterns can shape what the team can see, decide, and do together.

GoPedal has partnered with Josh Perry, high performance coach and former pro BMX athlete, to create “From Default to Deliberate.” This series of 90-minute workshops gives leadership teams the awareness and tools to recognize those patterns and change them.

Topics

Naming the Elephant in the Room Before It Breaks Stuff

The most expensive conversations are the ones that never happen

Rackets: Cracking the Code on Persistent Complaints

The patterns you can't see are the ones doing the most damage

Every team has recurring complaints that never get resolved and dynamics that everyone feels but nobody names. These are rackets: unconscious patterns with a hidden logic that made sense once and now quietly limit what the team can achieve. This workshop teaches participants to identify rackets at the individual and organizational level and take the first steps toward dissolving them. Key takeaways:

  • Framework for identifying unconscious behavioral patterns at the individual and team level

  • Ability to name the hidden payoff and hidden cost of rackets they're currently running

  • Shared language the team can use to surface and address these patterns going forward

State Before Decision

Why the first thing you do before any decision isn't actually about the decision

Every organization has the thing everyone knows but nobody's saying. This workshop explores why elephants persist, from identity-level patterns that make naming them feel threatening to anxiety responses that make avoidance feel safer than engagement. The heart of the workshop is practical: how to name what needs to be named in ways that open conversation rather

  • than shut it down. Key takeaways:

  • Ability to recognize the signals that an elephant is in the room

  • Understanding why avoidance persists, from both an identity and anxiety perspective

  • Framework for distinguishing between taking a break or giving space and avoiding

  • Strategies for addressing elephants in ways that invite dialogue rather than defensiveness

When the nervous system shifts into survival mode, perception narrows, nuance disappears, and the ability to hold complexity collapses. This workshop draws on the MITO framework, neuroscience and experience in the trenches to help participants understand what happens when pressure hits, recognize state shifts in themselves and others, and develop practical tools for esetting before making important decisions. Key takeaways:

  • Understanding how survival mode affects thinking, perception, and decision-making

  • Ability to recognize state shifts in themselves and others in real time

  • Practical strategies for regulating and resetting, individually and as a team