Dare to Lead for Organizations
Brave leadership isn't learned in a workshop. It's built inside a team, over time, in the real conversations that decide what a company becomes.
I work with organizations — executive teams, intact teams, and whole companies — and I stay. The work I love most unfolds over years, inside one organization at a time, becoming someone teams trust with what matters: the conversation between two leaders that keeps getting postponed, the tension between departments that everyone feels and no one names, the moments when a team needs courage more than it needs another meeting.
What a partnership looks like
Every engagement is built for your organization, and the strongest ones unfold across a year or more. We begin with discovery — confidential interviews with your leaders, so the work is grounded in what is actually happening, not what a curriculum assumes. Then comes the Dare to Lead™ program itself: immersive days where your team builds a shared language for vulnerability, values, trust, and resilience. And then the part most programs skip — integration: working sessions through the months that follow, where the skills meet your real decisions, alongside executive coaching for the leaders carrying the most.
The work in practice
For three decades I have worked with leaders and teams — helping senior teams facilitate their hardest conversations, building the trust that lets executives move quickly together, and coaching leaders one-to-one through their biggest transitions. The partnerships I treasure most have deepened over many years: organization-wide work spanning the executive team, leadership development at every level, and individual coaching. My clients span technology, national research laboratories, healthcare, financial services, wineries and hospitality, education, government, and mission-driven nonprofits.
The research underneath
Dare to Lead™ is built on Dr. Brené Brown's two decades of research on courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy — including a seven-year study of courageous leadership. Her most significant finding: courage is a collection of four skill sets — rumbling with vulnerability, living into our values, BRAVING trust, and learning to rise — that are teachable, measurable, and observable. As a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, I bring that research into your organization; as a coach and advisor, I make sure it takes root.
Let's talk about your team
If this resonates, I'd love to hear what's happening on your team — and how I might support you in cultivating an even more courageous culture.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, minutes from Napa Valley — and at home with teams across the country, in person and virtually.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, minutes from Napa Valley — and at home with teams across the country, in person and virtually.
Daring leaders lean into vulnerability, take smart risks, use their values to guide their behaviors and build trust in their teams, organizations and communities.
