About The Program

Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to be facilitated by organizational development professionals. Brené is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown 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.

The most significant finding from Brené’s latest research is that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, measurable, and observable.

• Rumbling with Vulnerability – facing your current reality with courage

• Living Into Your Values – identifying and operationalizing your values so the walk is being talked

• BRAVING Trust – creating or strengthening relationships using the seven elements of trust

• Learning to Rise – evolving and rising from life’s inevitable failures and challenges

The Dare to Lead™ program focuses on developing these skills through workshops, trainings, and coaching to help individuals, teams, and organizations move towards daring leadership. If any of these characteristics ring true for your organization, Dare to Lead™ could be transformational:

• An executive team that lacks trust, collaboration and alignment towards a common goal

• Low innovation

• Lack of psychological safety

• High turnover

• An inability to have the tough conversations often necessary in the course of leadership

• A disconnect between the walk and the talk

As a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, I'm honored to have been trained by Brené directly, and to have the opportunity to bring her incredible work into organizations. The program is flexible and modular. I will work closely with leaders to determine the key issues at stake and a program that best addresses those issues. The experience is deep, fun, real, interactive, illuminating and impactful. Programs are designed to leave participants with tactical approaches they can put into day to day use to start leading bravely immediately.

Brave, Bold, Courageous Leaders

Leaning into action, purpose, & values.

Sarah Cords CPCC, CDTLF
320.248.8591
Sarah@everlarkcollective.com

Full 2 Day Facilitation & Training

A 2-day workshop will take everyone through skill building around rumbling with vulnerability, identifying and operationalizing your values, BRAVING Trust, and Learning to Rise. At the end of the 2-day workshop, everyone who completed the full sixteen hour training will receive a certificate of completion and can add a "Dare to Lead™ Trained" badge on their LinkedIn account. This also includes a follow-up progress session 30-60 days after completion.

Four 4-Hour Training

You and your team can choose to break up the training over four 4-hour workshops. We cover everything that is included in the 2-day workshop, as well as a follow-up session 60 days after completion. Everyone who completes the full sixteen hour training will receive a certificate of completion and can add a "Dare to Lead™ Trained" badge on their LinkedIn account.

90 Minute Workshops

Schedule a top specific customized 90 minute workshops or a series of workshops specifically designed for your team and business. These can be geared toward a variety of topics, such as:

• Trust Building

• Giving & Receiving Feedback

• Identifying Effective Leadership Strategies

• Introduction to Vulnerability In Leadership

• Enhancing Engagement in Meetings & Brainstormings

DARE TO LEAD: THE FOUR SKILL SETS OF A COURAGEOUS LEADER  

1. Rumbling with Vulnerability

The definition of vulnerability is the emotion that we experience during times of uncertainty, risk, and emotion exposure. It’s not about winning or losing, but it’s the fundamental step toward courage when you can’t control the outcomes. As Brené Brown states: Embrace the suck. During Dare To Lead facilitation, we will tackle myths about vulnerability, common responses that get in the way, as well as crucial conversation starters, to name a few. Leaders can either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behaviors.

2. Living into our Values

Practicing our values is different than professing them. When selecting our values, we answer questions like, “Is this who I am at my best?”, “Does this define me?”, “Is this a filter I use to make hard decisions?”. Daring leaders lean into their values and are never silent about hard things. This allows us as leaders to work on operationalizing our values, and really living into our values. In other words, walking the walk.

3. Braving Trust

When trust is present among leaders and in-tact teams, amazing innovation, creativity, progress, and productivity happen. When there is a lack, a lot of unhealthy behaviors and emotions tend to surface. Creating trust is an integral part of being a leader and leading high impact teams. Trust-building happens in small, authentic moments over time. Trust-repairing requires a conscious choice to place courage over comfort. Not an easy thing to do, but great leaders are aware of that distinction.

4. Learning to Rise

Learning to rise is about creating an environment where setbacks and failures are embraced with a growth mindset versus a catastrophic and reactive mindset. Courageous organizations know that failure and setbacks are part of the learning process. Let’s dive into skill building exercises where we learn to rise and come out stronger.