MORE COURAGE
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GREATER IMPACT
Our world is desperate for braver leaders.
Dare to Lead™
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Mastering the Skill Sets of Courageous Leadership
Based on the extensive research of best-selling author and leadership pioneer Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to be facilitated by organizational development professionals.
Daring Leadership is a collection of four innovative skill sets that are teachable, measurable, and observable. Delivered through experiential workshops, trainings and coaching, this program helps individuals, teams and organizations to move from armoured leadership to daring leadership.
These skill sets are:
- Rumbling with vulnerability: Leaning into – and staying with – tough interactions that involve risk, uncertainty and emotional exposure,
while practicing empathy and staying true to who we are. - Living into our values: Identifying what we stand for and how to show up in a way that ensures the alignment of our intentions,
thoughts, words and actions. - Braving trust: Learning and practicing the seven key elements of trust, in service of building courageous connections that hold our
teams and organizations together. - Learning to rise: Developing the resiliency skills to bounce back from setbacks, failures, and disappointment, so we’re willing to risk falling again, and re-writing the stories that no longer serve us.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Increase emotional literacy and emotional intelligence leading to a shift in mindset to be more empowered, self-aware, resilient, and confident.
- Tackle risk, uncertainty, and challenging conversations with courage, clarity, and empathy.
- Learn the key components to brave leadership.
- Learn to create teams that take risks based upon courage, accountability and trust.
- Be equipped to operationalize the core values into actionable behaviors that define self and organization.
- Improved capacity to recover quickly after stumbles and setbacks.
- Learn to move from avoiding tough conversations to straight talk and taking action.
- Gain awareness of your emotional responses and narratives.
- Explore the process of reckoning with emotional triggers.
- Learn practical strategies for developing resilience, including cultivating a sense of purpose, practicing self-care, and seeking support from others.
- Understand what it means to “bring your whole heart to work each day”.
Research
Brené has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers and is the host of two award-winning podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead. Her 2010 TED Talk on The Power of Vulnerability is the second most watched Talk (as of 2023).
In the early stages of Brene’s 7-year study on brave leadership, she thought the biggest barrier to Daring Leadership was fear, but it’s not.
Her research showed that the biggest barrier to Daring Leadership is armour! The way we protect ourselves, the way we close ourselves off when we feel uncertain, attacked, criticized, at risk. It’s our armour that gets in the way, not our fear.
Our fear is normal ~ we can be brave and afraid at the same time; we just can’t be brave and armoured at the same time. Daring Leaders don’t self-protect in ways that push people away, hurt, shame, belittle, or move them out of their strengths.
Brené asked 150 global C-level leaders: “What, if anything, about the way people are leading today, needs to change in order for leaders to be successful in a complex, rapidly changing environment where we’re faced with seemingly intractable challenges and an insatiable demand for innovation?” The resounding response was:
“We need braver leaders and more courageous cultures.”
Benefits of Dare to Lead program
Dare to Lead™ has been described as “the ultimate playbook for developing brave leaders and courageous cultures.”
This program aligns with the most sought-after leadership competencies in the modern workplace, allowing you to become an effective agent of change, foster a collaborative mindset, identify solutions, demonstrate emotional intelligence, think globally, champion creativity, and much more.
Some of the benefits of this program include:
- Highly experiential learning, supportive videos, interactive activities, reflection, and facilitative conversations
- Learning a valuable new perspective on leadership
- Expanded the ability to lead courageously and cultivate a brave work culture
- Leading-edge instruction from a certified professional ICF coach and Dare to Lead™ facilitator
- Small class sizes with personalized interaction and support
- Become “Dare to Lead™ Trained” with the badge to add to your LinkedIn profile
- Join the more than 20,000 leaders from Fortune 500 companies and more who have enhanced their leadership skills as Dare to Lead™ Workshop Alumni
Don’t miss out on this exceptional opportunity to unlock your leadership potential. Dare to Lead and transform yourself into an extraordinary leader. Register now and embrace a future brimming with endless possibilities.
What is Included
- 30 hours of training (in the public program or customized for your institution)
- Daring Leadership Assessment to provide clear feedback on your progress
- Dare to Lead™ Workbook
- “Dare to Lead™ Trained” certificate and an approved badge to be used on your LinkedIn profile
- Exclusive community for additional support throughout
- Mid-course group support call
- One individual coaching call to reinforce new Daring Leadership skills and application
Facilitation Formats
- Offered in corporate organizations, in businesses ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, schools, churches, health care, etc. ~ in other words, any place where leaders and teams are ready to cultivate a culture in which people feel safe, seen, heard, and respected.
- Also offered in small group workshops that are open to anyone who sees themselves as a Leader. Leadership is not about titles or the corner office. It’s about the willingness to step up, put yourself out there, and lean into courage.
- As a Professional Certified Coach, I offer this work through one-on-one coaching sessions with Leaders who wish to do the work at their own pace, and over a slightly more prolonged period of time.
- As keynote presentations to groups of all sizes.
About your Dare to Lead Facilitator
Anita is a Certified Dare To Lead™ Facilitator and Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator for Dr. Brené Brown’s programs. She is a speaker and a personal, leadership and team coach.
Anita was one of the first to be certified in Dr. Brené Brown’s programs in 2013 and also facilitates her curricula in Daring Greatly™, Rising Strong™, 10 Guideposts For Living Wholeheartedly, and BOLD, a Daring Greatly™ curriculum designed specifically for adolescents.
Anita has a degree in Psychology and was a Montessori Teacher/Principal for over 25 years. She has her credentials as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) from the Co-Active® Training Institute (CTI) as well as her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentials from the International Coach Federation (ICF), and has been coaching leaders, teams, and individuals since 2010.
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"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
Joseph Campbell
How past Leaders experienced the Dare To Lead™ workshop:
The Dare To Lead™ work is absolutely phenomenal, and hugely transformative. Loved how Anita used her coaching skills to deepen learning in the leadership area. This material is much needed in leading from ‘amour’ not ‘armour’! Anita used stories, examples and relatable dialogue to reinforce the concepts and imbibe the teachings efficiently during these 3 days. Anita provided a very safe environment. Her ability to stay connected to the group and listen was much appreciated. She responded and gave ideas that I am motivated to use immediately.
Dare to Lead™ is such a powerful curriculum. The content and concepts are so strong and the tools I have gained this weekend will change how I show up at work. Anita is an amazing facilitator and it is clear that she truly lives and breathes the work. Her capacity to teach and share her wisdom and experience, is what made these three days unforgettable.
An incredibly safe, inviting and courage supporting space. The group dynamic felt open to sharing our voice at any time, hence adding richness to each topic. Anita’s knowledge of the content and personal life experience in living the work, stands as a true example of what it takes to dare, to lead, and to rise again.
Brave Leaders experience Daring Leadership
