The Right Use of Power Training for
HR Professionals
September 16, 2026
HR professionals operate at the intersection of people, leadership, organizational culture, and systems. They are often called upon to navigate emotionally charged situations, competing needs, organizational pressures, and complex relational dynamics — all while balancing care for employees with the realities of business operations and accountability.
Whether supporting leaders through difficult decisions, responding to workplace conflict, managing performance concerns, guiding organizational change, or helping shape workplace culture, HR professionals regularly work within significant power dynamics. These dynamics can influence trust, psychological safety, communication, inclusion, and employee wellbeing across an organization.
In these environments, the use of power matters deeply.
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HR professionals hold both formal and informal power through their influence, expertise, access to information, policy interpretation, and role within organizational systems. Even when acting with positive intent, the complexity of these dynamics can create challenges around trust, boundaries, ethical decision-making, relational safety, and perceived fairness.
The Right Use of Power offers a practical and relational framework for understanding and navigating power more consciously and effectively. Rather than viewing power as something to avoid, this training helps participants recognize how power can be used responsibly to strengthen relationships, support accountability, and foster healthier workplace cultures.
Through experiential learning, reflection, and real-world application, participants build greater self-awareness, deepen their understanding of organizational power dynamics, and strengthen their ability to lead conversations and decisions with both clarity and compassion. The training also supports HR professionals in navigating the emotional demands of their role while maintaining integrity, resilience, and meaningful connection in their work.
Basics Training - September 15
Our Basics Training is a 7-hour live learning experience for HR professionals who want to deepen their understanding of power and learn how to use power with both strength and compassion in workplace settings.
Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, our program is presented through engaging presentations, facilitated discussions, and experiential practices.
In our Basics Training you have the opportunity to:
Learn about the five types of power alongside HR and organizational professionals from around the world in a connected and reflective learning environment.
Expand your understanding of how power operates within workplace systems, leadership structures, and organizational culture.
Deepen your awareness of your own personal and positional power, and how your role impacts employees, leaders, and teams.
Explore power differentials, authority, trust, and boundaries to better navigate workplace relationships and difficult conversations.
Build greater capacity to recognize unconscious patterns, reduce misuse of power, and strengthen ethical and relational leadership practices.
Develop practical skills for leading with greater clarity, accountability, empathy, and psychological safety in complex workplace environments.
Training Details:
September 16, 2026
9:00am-4:00pm
TBD
Lunch included
About your facilitators
Dr. Amanda Aguilera
Amanda currently serves as the Executive Director of the Right Use of Power Institute. She is a consultant and facilitator in the area of power-and-equity consciousness and conflict resolution. Driven by her core values of curiosity, courage, and connection, Amanda is adept at putting things together in new ways, creating visuals that help make learning more accessible, and communicating complex ideas in simple ways.
Amanda has a commitment to be courageous in the service of reducing and repairing harm in relationship and promoting the cultural shift toward power-and-equity consciousness, conflict positivity and conflict competency.
Jeff Couillard
Jeff spent many years leading teams and helping to build world-class addiction treatment programs. He developed a skill set and approach to change that is grounded in the human experience and a deep understanding of power and motivation.
He has worked with a wide range of leaders (and their teams) over the years, on a single mission - to help build world-class, human-centred organizations that create the kind of impact that we usually only dream about.
Jeff loves all things teaching, facilitating, speaking and consulting. His sweet spot is helping leaders and teams engage in meaningful dialogue, identifying challenges and opportunities and creating the conditions for high levels of trust and engagement.
Leah Fink
Leah is dedicated to transforming mental health in the workplace. She partners with organizations to identify gaps in workplace practices, creating environments where employees feel supported, engaged, and able to perform at their best. Central to her work is helping leaders understand the impact of power dynamics, and how leadership and culture shape safety, trust, and inclusion.
Drawing on her experience as a registered social worker and background in addictions and mental health, Leah brings a strengths-based, human-centered approach to every engagement. She helps organizations navigate leadership, power, and cultural challenges to reduce disengagement, strengthen relationships, and turn wasted resources into healthier teams, stronger workplaces, and better outcomes.