About Dare to Lead™

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. She is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: 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 Brené’s recent research is that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are observable, measurable, and TEACHABLE.

 

Why Choose Dare to Lead™

You’re ready for brave leaders who are willing to take responsibility for developing the potential in their people.

You're ready to see teams innovate and solve problems with confident creativity as they embrace the hard conversations.

You’re ready for your culture to use feedback as fuel, speak honestly and with vulnerability, so that projects move more efficiently, with less time wasted in fear.

You’re ready to see your leaders foster psychological safety so people can challenge ideas, challenge themselves, and create a high-performing culture through compassion and empathy.

You’re ready to see people truly living your organizational values, and delivering impactfully on your mission. 

Every organization can make the change. It starts with brave leaders.

 
 

Assessing your culture

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” - Peter Drucker

It doesn’t matter how good your strategy is, it will always fail in the hands of a dysfunctional culture where managers make all the decisions, burnout is rampant, people aren’t engaged, back-channeling and withholding are everywhere, ambiguity persists, people avoid the hard conversations, and there’s an overall resistance to change.

Sound familiar? It’s the inevitable result of command-and-control leadership. It’s what Gen X learned as they made their way into leadership positions… and now it’s time to unlearn it.

 
 
 

From Command-and-Control to Courageous Cultures

It’s time to replace command-and-control with courage and belonging.

Building a trusting, validating culture requires change. And change requires courage (as well as a whole new repertoire of leadership tools).

Cultures of courage and belonging create loyalty, collaboration and extraordinary results. They retain fulfilled people, and empower them to contribute their best. Our Dare to Lead™ program gives your leaders the skills to make the shift to a culture where everybody feels like they belong.

First and foremost, this training is a journey of self-discovery.

Before you can lead others, you need to understand who you are, and what drives your behaviour.

This curriculum supports you as you look inward and get clear on your personal values, your relationship with vulnerability and the behaviours you choose to self-protect.

Once you’ve navigated these waters, you’re ready to learn the practical leadership tools for feedback, trust, and resilience that build successful cultures.

The Dare to Lead™ program equips leaders with everything they need to foster a culture of belonging in any organization.

 
 

Your Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator

Your facilitator for this Dare to Lead™ immersion is Diane Lloyd, CEO of Inspired Results Group, executive coach (PCC) and associate faculty at Royal Roads University. Only a handful of people in the world are Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators, having trained directly with researcher and leadership expert Brené Brown.

As a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Diane leads with compassion and courage, bringing you in and holding you in a safe space…and gently prodding you to stretch for your best. Where other leadership development training focuses on what you need to DO, this training focuses on what kind of leader you want to BE.

 
 

What leaders say About Dare to Lead™

 

Alex Van Tol
Book coach & Author

“Inspired Results Group is unparalleled in its delivery of Brené Brown's Dare to Lead™ training. The leaders are deeply knowledgeable, with "ground truth" credibility to back up their teaching. Brené's impactful videos are flanked by well-paced learning sessions, with lots of opportunity to deconstruct concepts with both the facilitators and cohort members. I have already recommended this training to many of my peers.”

Zachary Jones
Director of Finance, KGH Foundation

“Amazing experience which opened my eyes to both internal and external struggles, while providing actionable steps and materials to improve these areas and create a strong leadership philosophy.”

Paula Cousins
Assistant Deputy Minister, BC Transportation

"I had exposure to most of the content in this course before starting it but wow… the opportunity to carve out time to dive into it with a cohort of like minded people far exceeded my expectations. I was blown away by how quickly I connected with the group and how much value I took from their perspectives, insights, vulnerability, etc. I loved every single moment.”

 

What to expect from your leaders after they Dare to Lead™

Dare to Lead™ offers a practical toolkit for creating accountability, authenticity and courage in your teams. Your leaders won’t avoid tough conversations, dance around emotional issues, or pretend storms aren’t rumbling just under the surface.

Instead, your leaders will have:

  • immediately applicable skills that reduce conflict and increase collaboration

  • tools for leading people through change with grounded confidence and a growth mindset

  • an understanding of the emotional triggers that block confidence

  • frameworks for giving and receiving feedback that spark growth

  • practical approaches to build connection and trust with their teams

  • an understanding of how to live and lead from your organization’s values

 
 

Course Details

  • 20 hours of curated, facilitated content

    A workbook packed with tools and learning explorations

    16 Video lessons from Brené Brown that are exclusive to Dare to Lead™

    Discussion and practice to ground your learning

    A badge of completion for LinkedIn

    Certificate of Completion

    Joining the Dare to Lead™ Trained Alumni Community

  • Interactive learning, including videos exclusively from Brené Brown that aren’t available to the public.

    Modelling of vulnerability from your facilitators and cohort members

    Small-group discussion (this is where the magic happens!)

    Self-reflection, and a workbook that supports it.

    Vulnerable, deep and REAL conversations.

    The kind of emotional connection that only a challenging journey can catalyze.

    A safe, supportive learning space for leaders to practice showing up with courage and vulnerability.

  • Confident, compassionate, vulnerable leaders who are Dare to Lead™ trained, and qualified to share their learning with their teams at work.

 

Upcoming Dare to Lead™ Training

Don’t miss our 2024 virtual and in-person programs.

2024 Virtual Session

2024 Virtual Dare to Lead™ will be held over five weeks starting in February. See below for upcoming training dates and sign up for the cohort that’s right for you.

 

  • Thursday, September 26 from 8:30am - 12:30pm PST

    Thursday, October 3 from 8:30am - 12:30pm PST

    Thursday, October 10 from 8:30am - 12:30pm PST

    Thursday, October 17 from 8:30am - 12:30pm PST

    Thursday, October 24 from 8:30am - 12:30pm PST

 
 

Dare to Lead™ With IRG

NOTE: Brené will not be at this training, however she has created a series of signature videos to support this learning experience. Our Dare to Lead™ program is crafted so that it feels like Diane is co-facilitating with Brené.

You’ll have special access to her research and teachings through this curated collection of Dare to Lead™-specific training videos. The videos are private to the Dare to Lead™ community, and are not available in the public domain.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at coach@inspiredresultsgroup.com. We’d be so happy to connect.

Inspired Results Group is proud to be the training partner of choice for a number of organizations—and in different sectors, too. (Brave leadership is brave leadership, whether it’s in schools, foundations or factories.)