Will You Answer The Call To Courage?
Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.
When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it’s necessary to do good work.
But daring leadership in a culture defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human. The irony is that we’re choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact same time as we’re scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage, for starters.
Having spent over two decades dedicated to studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and most recently completing a study on courageous leadership, Dr. Brené Brown’s research reveals that the ideal leader is someone who cultivates a culture in which brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts are the expectation.
“Something quite personal and magnificent shifted in my heart and in my world after taking a deep dive into Brene’s material under the brilliant and engaging leadership of Cindy Gardner. In three remarkable days of Brene’s flagship program, “Dare to Lead: A Journey to Courageous Leadership”, Cindy transformed the trademark concepts into courage, armor into love, and skills into value-centered actions. Learning became discerning, interested became invested, motivated became mobilized.”
— LINDA FERRIERO, FOUNDER, INNER GPS COACHING
What You’ll Learn
In this experiential, six-week training, I’ll guide you on a powerful discovery to become a braver leader as you learn the four empirically based skill sets of courageous leadership, all of which are teachable, measurable, and observable:
Rumbling with Vulnerability – facing risk, uncertainty, and emotional exposure with courage and clarity
Living into our Values – identifying, operationalizing, and practicing the beliefs we hold most important
BRAVING Trust – creating or deepening connections in relationships and teams based on the seven elements of trust
Learning to Rise – learning and growing from the inevitable failures, setbacks, and disappointments that happen when we’re brave
Individuals who successfully complete the full 24-hour Dare to Lead™ training program will receive a certificate of completion and are permitted to put the “Dare to Lead Trained” badge on their LinkedIn account.
Training Objectives
Gauge your strengths and opportunities for growth as a daring leader
Better understand why vulnerability is the foundational skill set of courage
Understand the role that self-awareness plays in daring leadership
Understand that it’s armor, not fear, that’s the greatest obstacle to daring leadership
Identify the four skill sets that make up courage
Understand that courage is a collection of skill sets that are measurable, observable, and teachable
Recognize that vulnerability is the birthplace of many of the behaviors that define daring leadership
Understand that daring leadership requires showing up for hard conversations and rumbles, including giving and receiving feedback
Who Should Attend
Those who:
Are interested in developing their courageous leadership skills (executives, directors, managers, emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and personal and professional development seekers, to name just a few)
See the potential in people and processes and desire to take responsibility for developing that potential
Are passionate about accelerating performance in themselves and others
Want to create braver, more resilient organizations and teams
Desire to live and lead more courageously
About Brené Brown & the Dare to Lead Program
Brené is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and most recently completed a seven-year study on courageous leadership. She is the author of five #1 New York Times best sellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and Dare to Lead, which also debuted at #1 on The Wall Street Journal and Publisher’s Weekly lists.
The most significant finding from Brene’s latest research is that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, measurable, and observable. Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators focus on developing these courage-building skills through workshops, trainings, and coaching to help individuals, teams, and organizations move from armored leadership to daring leadership.
Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to be led by Certified Dare to Lead facilitators. It’s for individuals who are ready to embrace brave leadership, shed their armor, and show up with their whole hearts in their work and life.
As a Certified Dare to Lead facilitator personally trained by Brene,
I have the profound and distinct privilege of guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through the actionable and measurable skills of daring leadership.
Are you ready to answer the call to courage?
How it Works
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For Your Organization, Team, or Group (Private Program)
Build courage within your team and across your culture in this highly experiential training.
The curriculum consists of 24-hours of content and covers all four courage-building skill sets.
Participants receive a workbook, Certificate of Completion, and Dare to Lead Trained™ badge for their LinkedIn profile.
As the curriculum is flexible and modular, we can also design a workshop or training that speaks to a specific skill set (e.g., BRAVING Trust).
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For Your Personal or Professional Development (Individual Program)
Build courage as a leader, small business owner, or human being on a solo journey with me.
Take a deep dive into building courage through this highly specialized, 6-month program, which incorporates;
1:1 coaching, to intensify your integration of the courage-building skill set.
Participants in this program receive a workbook, Certificate of Completion, and Dare to Lead Trained™ badge for their LinkedIn profile.
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For Your Personal or Professional Development (Group Program)
Build courage as a leader, small business owner, or human being as part of a collective.
The full curriculum is offered in this highly experiential 6-week program alongside others who are intent on building courage.
Be amongst the thousands who have taken this program and transformed the way they lead.
All participants receive a workbook, Certificate of Completion, and Dare to Lead Trained ™ badge for their LinkedIn profile.
Contact Me
Private Program for your Organization
OR For Yourself as an Individual
Get in touch if you’d like to hear more about going through the Dare to Lead with myself as your facilitator, whether it’s for you personally or for your organisation.
Open Enrollment 2023
6-Week Public Program
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