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At the EMCC UK Team Coaching SIG, Dr Tarek Jomaa introduced The Anti-Fragile Code — a new way of understanding team performance beyond traditional ideas of resilience. Through a live case study, he showed how hidden cultural forces, not skills, often limit innovation and collaboration.

Burnout is not a personal failure — it is a system failure. At a London wellbeing panel, Dr Vanessa Pozzali reframed burnout as the product of unsafe, unsustainable workplace cultures rather than individual weakness, showing how systemic pressure and cultural misalignment silently erode wellbeing and performance.

At ATD Saudi Arabia, Dr Tarek Jomaa introduced anti-fragility as the new foundation for organisational success. His keynote showed how hidden cultural misalignments — not skill gaps — often undermine innovation and performance. Using the Synthosys 4C Diagnostic and a real case study, he demonstrated why uncovering these dynamics is essential for building truly resilient, future-ready teams.

Synthosys co-founder Dr Tarek Jomaa has been nominated for the Institute of Leadership Advocate of the Year Award. His work champions culture, alignment, and anti-fragile leadership through keynotes, accredited courses, podcasts, and publications — reinforcing that true resilience comes from how leaders navigate disagreement, not from everyone agreeing.

In Scaling Without Fragility: Supporting Startups at Level39, Dr Vanessa Pozzali and Dr Tarek Jomaa introduced the 4C Diagnostic Model to founders navigating the pressures of rapid growth. By revealing hidden cultural and organisational fragilities, they helped startups gain the clarity to scale with confidence, resilience, and long-term stability.

In Belonging to Leadership: Reflections at Warwick Castle, Dr Tarek Jomaa shares the value of belonging to a leadership community. Speaking at the Institute of Leadership’s annual Members’ Reception, he highlights how growth, connection, and shared purpose strengthen leadership far beyond individual performance — creating resilience that lasts.

In Resilience & Imposter Syndrome: A Systemic Challenge, Dr Vanessa Pozzali reframes imposter syndrome and resilience as system issues shaped by culture, environment, and leadership. She shows how true resilience emerges not from endurance, but from organisational systems built on clarity, collaboration, and adaptability — creating growth that is shared rather than carried alone.

In The Queen Bee Effect: Rethinking Women’s Leadership, Dr Vanessa Pozzali challenges the idea that women hold each other back. She reveals how the so-called “Queen Bee effect” reflects deeper systemic dynamics, not individual flaws, and shows why cultural and structural change is essential to unlocking women’s leadership.

In ROGUE Leadership: Challenging the Status Quo, Dr Tarek Jomaa explores how leaders can break free from comfort, ego, and rigid systems to build anti-fragile cultures. Drawing on the ROGUE Coaching Model and insights shared with Dr Vanessa Pozzali, he shows how reflection, action, and humanity help leaders navigate complexity in uncertain times.

In What Really Drives High Performance: Beyond the Obvious, Synthosys co-founders Dr Vanessa Pozzali and Dr Tarek Jomaa challenge traditional views of performance. Drawing on psychology, group dynamics, and motorsport engineering, they reveal how the 4C Diagnostic Model helps leaders build anti-fragile teams that adapt, recover, and thrive.

In Showcasing a New Lens on Engagement and Culture, Synthosys co-founders Dr Vanessa Pozzali and Dr Tarek Jomaa presented the 4C Culture & Team Dynamics Model at the Employee Engage Summit in London. Their approach moves beyond surface-level fixes to reveal the hidden forces shaping engagement, collaboration, and anti-fragile cultures that truly last.

In Diagnosing Culture Before Designing Change, Synthosys co-founders Dr Vanessa Pozzali and Dr Tarek Jomaa demonstrate how the 4C Culture & Team Dynamics Model helps uncover hidden forces behind performance. Their case study shows why diagnosing culture is the first step to meaningful, lasting organisational change.

In Leadership Legacy: Beyond Achievement to Cultural Impact, Synthosys co-founders Dr Vanessa Pozzali and Dr Tarek Jomaa explore how true leadership legacy goes beyond success or titles. Drawing on the TIC Model, they show how lasting impact comes from what leaders embed in others — shaping teams, culture, and purpose that endure over time.

In ROGUE Coaching: Redefining Transformation Beyond Goals, Dr Tarek Jomaa introduces the ROGUE Coaching Model — a peer-reviewed framework challenging goal-focused coaching. By uncovering hidden dynamics and bridging the gap between reality and aspiration, ROGUE Coaching redefines how lasting transformation begins.

Dr Vanessa Pozzali and Dr Tarek Jomaa at the University of Derby Work Health Hub, introducing the 4C Culture & Team Dynamics Model to explore hidden forces behind culture and performance.

At the Women in Leadership Conference in London, Synthosys co-founders Dr Vanessa Pozzali and Dr Tarek Jomaa exposed the myths holding women back and showed why inclusive leadership depends on fixing systems, not individuals. Their joint message: true progress comes from redesigning culture, trust, and collaboration so all leaders can thrive.

At the WCIT Science of Leadership Conference, Synthosys co-founders Dr Vanessa Pozzali and Dr Tarek Jomaa joined a panel on AI in leadership. They warned that blind reliance on technology can undermine trust and culture, sharing lessons from motorsport and organisational life. Their takeaway: AI is powerful, but leadership must stay rooted in reflection, context, and humanity.

At the Science of Leadership Conference in Yerevan, Dr Vanessa Pozzali explored what it means to lead in the age of AI. Her keynote, Leading in the Age of AI: Staying Human at the Core, challenged leaders to resist outsourcing their judgment to machines and instead strengthen the skills that make leadership uniquely human. Vanessa emphasised four critical capacities—deep reflective thinking, emotional awareness, adaptive judgment, and ethical decision-making—reminding us that

At the Science of Leadership conference, Dr Tarek Jomaa explored the evolving role of leaders in an AI-driven world. In his session, he emphasised that while technology can accelerate decision-making, only human leaders bring the reflective thinking, ethical judgement, and emotional awareness needed to guide organisations responsibly. His call to action was clear: leadership in the age of AI must remain deeply human to create cultures of trust, adaptability, and sustainable i