Building Brave Leaders & Courageous Cultures

Delivered by Leading Facilitator & experienced Certified Dare To Lead™ Facilitator Debra Birks, in collaboration with Leadership Great South Coast.

Delivered over 3-Days IN-PERSON

PLUS BONUS COACHING - 'Circle Back' Group Coaching session 4 weeks post the workshop.

Day 1: Tue 24th Feb - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Day 2: Wed 25th Feb - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Day 3: Thu 26th Feb - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Why Dare To Lead™ Leadership?

The Dare To Lead™ program cultivates Brave Leaders and Courageous Cultures with a focus on accountable, values-led, self-aware and empathic leadership skill development. Leaders will be skilled up to rise from failures and set-backs, to align values with behaviours, to unlearn and relearn what vulnerability is, and to strengthen trust in self and others. This program is transformational in leadership, and life. Sharpening emotional literacy, understanding shame resilience, and cultivating your critical thinking is integral for authentic and courageous leadership.

About the Dare To Lead™ program

Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program of 4 skill sets that are measurable, teachable and observable, designed to be delivered by a Certified Dare To Lead™ Facilitator. This is a highly interactive and experiential workshop that delivers on its research in clear and practical ways.

Who should attend?

Brené defines a leader as "someone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes and has the courage to develop that potential."

A Call to all Leaders. People leaders, self-leaders, emerging leaders, educators, community and business leaders; health practitioners, coaches and consultants, this is a deep dive into 'Brave Leadership', and if you're committed to leading authentically, ethically and inclusively, with your whole heart, then this program is for you.

Discover how to...

Cultivate courageous cultures and brave leaders
Increase innovation and creativity
Operationalise your values - reset and realign values to meaning and purpose
Build empathy and the practice of self-care and emotional wellbeing
Build trust through accountability, reliability and setting boundaries
Rise from setbacks – acquire strategies and skills to reset from failure and disappointment

Key Learning Outcomes

Defining your Leadership identity
Identify the 4 skill sets of courage
Recognise the critical role that self-awareness plays in daring leadership
How to show up for hard conversations
Understand why courage requires vulnerability
Why self-protection (armour) - not fear, is our greatest obstacle in daring leadership
Identifying the myths of vulnerability
Understand how courage is measurable, teachable and observable
Cultivating an essential feedback culture

Program Includes

A copy of Brené Brown's New York Times #1 bestselling book Dare to Lead™
Dare to Lead™ official workbook only available from your Certified Dare To Lead™ Facilitator
Dare to Lead™ ‘Participant Trained’ digital LinkedIn credential*
Pre-work: Daring Leadership assessment - measuring the 4 skill sets of courage
Brené Brown videos - created exclusively for the Dare To Lead™ program
Resources to continue and embed the learnings
Access to ANEWDAY's private group coaching circles. Exclusive to DTL graduates - Value $2,000

Morning & afternoon Tea, plus a nutritious lunch will be provided

Cost:

Early Bird rate: $2835* - closes 10 January 2026.

Full rate: $3035* - closes 10 February 2026

* plus Humanitix booking fee.

Venue: Warrnambool, Vic - specifics to be confirmed.

**This program does not provide you with a Dare To Lead™ Certified Facilitator accreditation to facilitate the Dare To Lead™ program. However once the 3-day curriculum is completed you may be eligible to deliver the 'Daring Teams Rollout Program' to your broader team as a Daring Team's Co-ordinator. Register your interest with debra@anewday.com.au

About Debra Birks - your facilitator

Debra, an experienced and Certified Dare to Lead™ (CDTLF) and Daring Way™ Facilitator (CDWF), ICF, IECL Lvl 3 Executive/Leadership Coach, amd experienced executive leader of 30+ years, will facilitate and guide you through...

Dare To Lead™ 3-day curriculum.
All lessons using her own personal stories, humour, knowledge and wisdom to compliment the research and science.
The skills, common language and tools required to operationalise your own courage in your organisation, workplace and life.

About Dr. Brené Brown

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 10 year study on courageous leadership. She is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers.

Agenda Summary

The Heart of Daring Leadership

The foundations of Daring Leadership
Identifying your call to courage as a leader
The 11 elements of daring vs armoured leadership behaviours
Armour vs fear and the armouring up process
The 5Cs of strategic thinking, decision making and delegation
Tools for grounded confidence
Self-awareness and emotional literacy

Rumbling with Vulnerability

Myths of vulnerability
Building shame resilience
Empathy and self-compassion skills
Emotional literacy

Living into our Values

Identify your core values
Operationalise your values into aligned behaviours
Rumble skills, tools and language
Giving and receiving engaged feedback

BRAVING – Trust

Anatomy of trust and psychological safety
Trust with self, within teams and others
Practicing boundaries integrity and generosity

Learning to Rise

Getting emotionally hooked
Barriers and strategies for reckoning with emotions
The reckoning - getting curious about emotional hooks
The rumble - conspiracies and confabulations of our stories
The revolution - reset and rewrite a new ending

Contact information

For any enquiries about the Dare To Lead™ event please contact the facilitator Debra Birks directly: debra@anewday.com.au or LGSC Executive Officer: eo@lgsc.org.au

2026 Dare To LeadTM with Debra Birks, in collaboration with Leadership Great South Coast

Choose your tickets

Early bird - closes 10 January 2026 ticket

Full rate - ends 10 February 2026 ticket