You care deeply about your team’s success, maybe more than anyone realizes. 

You’re the one who stays late to smooth over tension, chooses your words carefully in every meeting, and quietly carries the emotional weight when things get messy.

You’re smart, sensitive, and emotionally attuned, but that often means you absorb the stress around you. When conflict flares, you find yourself second-guessing what to say, saying nothing at all just to keep the peace, or… exploding.

When you want to be clear, you're told you're "too blunt." When you want to be empathetic, colleagues or employees dump all of their problems at your feet to solve.

You're not sure how to be sensitive and compassionate without losing authority or becoming a sponge for other people’s stress. 

You’ve tried the communication frameworks and “difficult conversation” scripts, but they felt stiff and unnatural. 

You want something deeper: a real understanding of what’s happening under the surface when tempers flare, why certain patterns keep repeating, and how to address the root causes of team drama. You want to lead without toughening up, shutting down, or choosing between being liked and being respected.

Often, my clients have already tried:

• Non Violent Communication (too scripted) or Crucial Conversations (too complicated to use in the moment).
• Trainings, team workshops, or relying on colleagues to fix “people problems,” but the drama keeps resurfacing. The real issue isn’t a lack of knowledge, it’s habitual reactions that inflame communication and sabotage your confidence.
• Assuming that being too direct, too emotional, or too passive is just your personality… rather than your stress response.

• Silencing yourself to keep the peace, or pushing harder to stay in control. Both approaches leave you disconnected from your team and drained at the end of the day.
• White-knuckling your way through tension, which doesn’t work because leadership under pressure isn’t about trying harder. It’s about understanding what’s actually happening inside you.
• Reading personal development and leadership books, trying everything, and still worrying that you’re not enough.
  

Some of these approaches can be helpful, but many don't work because they rely on intellect alone.

They explain what you need to know or think about, but don’t give you the how.

How to manage emotions, how to hold space for other people’s reactions without becoming reactive yourself, and how to guide others into productive communication (instead of devolving into conflict).

The Medicine

Our work is to get familiar with your own internal experience in stress and the root causes of your reactions in conflict so you can find the most gentle, compassionate, loving and efficient way to lead yourself.

So you can 

• Present to a board with confidence
• Have your ideas heard and valued (instead of dismissed)
• Make bold decisions without fear
• Guide your team through change without them getting derailed by resistance
• Finally break free from the cycle of exhaustion, interpersonal drama, and self-doubt

Welcome, I’m Dr. Annie Campanile

I’ve coached everyone from exasperated nursing directors, to self-doubting executives, to explosive clinicians on the verge of termination—and helped them shift to confident, effective leadership.

I created this work because I saw what was missing: too many leadership and coaching programs ignore the nervous system or fail to provide simple tactics to regulate it. They assume logic alone will carry the day. But if your body is in fight-or-flight, no script will save you. 

I help leaders tune into their internal cues, calm the survival response, and communicate with the clarity and compassion their teams need. That’s what creates wise leadership.

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How We Can Work Together

Empowered Feedback Toolkit - $20

Deliver difficult feedback with clarity and compassion in a way that builds connection, not conflict. 

Perfect for leaders and their teams who want to create accountability, respect and alignment with every conversation.

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1:1 ExecutiveCoaching

You want to be known as the highly competent, credible, clear and effective leader who calms tensions and builds strong teams. All while staying connected to who you are and what you value.

I offer bespoke coaching packages that are responsive to your unique needs.

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Facilitated Conflict Resolution

When conflict between colleagues has reached an impasse, I step in to guide the conversation, untangling the complexity so your team can move forward—because operations can't stall and patient care can’t wait.

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Bring all of who you are to leadership and elevate the way your team delivers care.

Stop dreading conflict and start driving results.

 

Tune into the Drama Free Teams podcast for real stories and tools you can use today.