Webinar – What Now/What Next
Dealing with the stress of Covid 19
The person we were pre-COVID-19 has gone forever and with it the hopes, aspirations and dreams of the future-self we might have become.
Instead many of us are left with huge uncertainty, unable to plan long term, at the mercy of the unknown and scrambling to figure out who we are during COVID-19 and who and what we might need to become after COVID.
Following on from last week’s hugely popular Webinar looking at jobs and work now, next and after next, David Southwick MP and I (Morris Miselowski) are joined by Judith David, Clinical Psychologist to explore the human behind all of this and chat about:
• how to deal and vanquish stress
• how best to manage and thrive in uncertain times
• practical tips for harnessing evilness and using it for niceness (to quote Get Smart)
• kindfullness vs mindfullnes
• how knowing your OCEAN personality may help you cope
and then we’ll escape for a few minutes and venture into the future to explore:
• the positive legacy COVID medical research will leave us with and
• what fighting this terrible virus might look like 2030 style
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How did the strategic picture change between What Now/What Next episodes?
The speed of the structural shift became clearer. What had initially seemed like a temporary disruption was revealing itself as an acceleration of pre-existing trends: the viability of remote work at scale, the acceleration of digital commerce, the fragility of supply chains built for efficiency rather than resilience.
Q: What was the most important strategic insight by Episode 2?
That organisations waiting to return to pre-COVID normal were waiting for something that was not coming back in its original form. The correct strategic posture was not restoration but reinvention — designing for the environment that was emerging, not the one that had existed.
Q: How should leaders communicate with their teams during prolonged uncertainty?
With transparency about what is known, honesty about what is not known, and genuine care for people’s experience of the situation. Leaders who maintained regular, honest communication — even when the message was ‘we don’t know yet’ — preserved trust. Those who went silent or overpromised damaged it.
Q: Can Morris Misel facilitate leadership decision-making workshops for your team?
Yes. For crisis leadership workshops, keynotes, and advisory, visit morrismisel.com/event-organisers.
Dealing with the stress of Covid 19 The person we were pre-COVID-19 has gone forever and with it the hopes, aspirations and dreams of the future-self we might have become. Instead many of us are left with huge uncertainty, unable to plan long term, at the mercy of the unknown and.
When signals like Webinar What Now/What Next emerge, organisations that engage early have the advantage of choosing their response rather than reacting to events. That gap between those who prepared and those who did not is where competitive positioning is actually made or lost.
The most important question is not whether Webinar What Now/What Next will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.
