Team

CEO
As founder & CEO of Courageous Leadership, Brooke Deterline and her colleagues use evidence-based tools to help boards, executives, and teams develop the understanding and skills to act with ethical courage and ingenuity to address complex social and organizational challenges together. Building on her experiences as the founding Corporate Director for the Heroic Imagination Project with Phil Zimbardo, PhD., she combines social and cognitive psychology and a strategic focus with a passion for equitable, supportive relationships and systems and positive societal impact. Brooke has worked across all sectors of industry from nonprofits and governmental agencies to fortune 500 companies, all with human centered approaches grounded in evidence-based practices.
Previously, Brooke co-founded Street Smart IR, a San Francisco-based investor relations firm, focusing on leadership candor and credibility. A former journalist at SmartMoney magazine and trained mediator, she focuses on building positive relationships, surfacing individual and systemic challenges that interfere with engagement, collaboration and equity. She helps teams achieve structural, team, and individual patterns that support long-term connection, learning and impact. Brooke has completed numerous courses in systemic oppression, liberatory and equitable relationship dynamics, leadership, multi-cultural facilitation and social entrepreneurship, certifications in corporate board training at Berkeley’s Haas School, mediation training at the Justice Center of Atlanta, and exec finance at Stanford. Recently, Brooke completed an intensive professional course on Positive Neuroplasticity with Rick Hanson, PhD. Brooke lives in Richmond, California with her husband, Ken. They are profoundly blessed with beloved community.

Emotional Intelligence Leader
Simone is a Emotional Intelligence Leader at Courageous Leadership. Using the wisdom of Emotional Intelligence & Mindfulness practices as anchors, Simone’s coaching technique focuses on working with the client to cultivate a deeper self-awareness, design equitable actions, and then foster sustainable learning and growth. Her work with clients on the individual and corporate level, begins with supporting the recognition of patterns of behavior that are no longer serving the clients’ highest good. As growth opportunities within those patterns are identified, Self-Compassion techniques and practices are tightly woven into each learning session.
Starting her journey as an Emotional Intelligence Coach and Mindfulness Practitioner while working as a Wellness Programs Manager at the largest single-site jail in the U.S., Cook County jail in Chicago, IL. She realized that the only way to address the needs of the detainees recidivating within the system, was to go deeper into understanding the residual effects of emotional trauma.
In all of her work, Simone continues to support individuals and work teams, in focusing on navigating the wisdom of their unnamed emotions. Simone has initiated projects and learning sessions helping work teams to connect to the emotions and tensions surrounding power and hierarchy, racial injustice, and gender inequities masked in the internal operations of organizations. Her intention in this work is to continue to support individuals in their journey to achieving peace, even in high-stress work environments and challenging personal experiences.

Equity Inclusion Leader
Juanita Capri Brown joined Courageous Leadership as an Equity Inclusion Leader to facilitate and co-develop curriculum for our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging programs. Juanita specializes in societal equity and personal and collective liberation. She supports the public and non-profit sectors, foundations and communities across the nation and internationally to undertake breakthrough approaches. Her work promotes the ability of staff, students, residents, educators and executives to agitate and disrupt static systems and transform relationships within their realms of influence. She is currently a part-time lecturer at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley teaching a course she designed titled 'Collective Liberation, Self-Solidarity and Policymaking’.
Brown is also an artist. She wrote her latest multimedia one-person show which she offered in October 2019 at the Flight Deck Theater in Oakland, CA. A published writer, she is working on her first book.
Brown received her undergraduate degree from Stanford and then her Master of Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
A Chicago native, Brown cherishes her family roots which run deep in the state of Alabama.

CSFO
As the Chief Social Fitness Officer at Courageous Leadership, Dr. Lynne Henderson is translating her Social Fitness Training™, a cognitive behavioral model developed over 25 years at the Stanford Shyness Clinic, into structured exercises that facilitate skillful courageous conversations in stressful situations in organizations. Role-plays at moderate levels of stress/anxiety open the way to skillful and courageous action rather than avoidance in challenging situations and build strong social trust and support. Other exercises include mindfulness, perspective taking, gratitude, empathy, fostering a growth mindset, compassion and forgiveness that facilitate compassion for the self and others while engaging in the ongoing process of courageous conversations and actions.
Lynne is also the co-director, with Prof. Philip Zimbardo, of the Shyness Institute, and was the director of the Stanford Shyness Clinic, 1982-2007. Her research includes translating the results of personality theory and social psychology into effective group and individual treatment strategies for extreme shyness and social anxiety disorder. She developed Social Fitness Training™, a health-enhancement and mental and social training model, is trained in Mindful Self Compassion and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) evidence based mindfulness programs, and is the author of The Compassionate Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence and Social Fitness Training.

Operations Strategist
Shalae is a seasoned operations management professional with a background in the health care industry. She is a serial solution finder, strategy curator, and ideation leader with a diverse work background from technical to nontechnical environments.
Through the combination of her pragmatic approach, paired with design thinking, Shalae partners with organizations to implement strategies to achieve optimal operational efficiency. Shalae is passionate about using her lived experiences to be a contributor and change agent within and outside of her community.
Shalae has worked as an Operations Strategist for firms including Paths to Change: Consulting, Coaching, Facilitation, & Training Services, Californians for Safety and Justice, and Courageous Leadership.Her formal education includes a Master of Science degree in Healthcare Administration from California State University East Bay and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Howard University.
Shalae serves on the Board of Directors for CADAP, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on empowering communities through awareness, education, and specialized services to youth, women with children, and persons transitioning back into society. Additionally, Shalae is a member of the Contra Costa Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., where she leads the Technology & Publicity committee.
Shalae’s frames her work around the approach that our foundation rests in the belief that organizational growth is sustained by considering where the world and tech tools are going, and not just where they have been.

Chief Operations Officer
As Chief Operations Officer at Courageous Leadership, Denise combines her extensive background in psychology and organizational development with a passion for innovation, productivity, leadership and human and organizational growth and resilience. Working with non-profits, small businesses, and large corporations, she helped facilitate the success of organizations in the fields of environmental education, diversity education, social-emotional learning, personnel management, multicultural psychology, social psychology, big-box retail and fine arts.
Denise applies creativity to a methodical and rigorous approach to infrastructure development, systems analysis, capacity building, and personnel and curriculum development, allowing her to cross-pollinate best practices across various industries and settings. Previously, she was the Founder of three businesses and a non-profit, and has also been a collaborative incubator for several other businesses. Denise served on the Board of Directors for Caritas Creek Environmental Education, volunteers for non-profits which provide educational services to under-served communities, and holds a Master of Science degree in General Psychology.

Executive Consultant
Erin Selover, MS, is an Executive Consultant for Courageous Leadership. As a meditation teacher, Erin integrates systemic and cultural factors of oppression into teachings on mindfulness and compassion that are often only taught from an interpersonal and intrapersonal lens. With a passion for systemic change, Erin’s teachings broaden the field of mindfulness to look at the how Buddhist teachings can help us understand systems of oppression such as patriarchy, white supremacy and modern economics.
Supporting students to see factors that contribute to their pain as part of a larger system helps to decrease shame, increase a sense of agency, and work collectively towards compassionately changing oppressive systems within their communities. Erin co-teaches a course for white people integrating Buddhist Meditation and racial justice, answering a call to decrease the burden on people of color to educate white people on dominant culture.
Erin has a strategic coaching practice where she specializes in working with female leaders. One of her missions is to empower women to boldly vision the world they want create and build it based on collaborative-based leadership and creating systems that allow the insight of our mutual inter-dependence and belonging to be realized. She is also the co-guiding teacher of Fertile Void, a women’s meditation community in Berkeley.
Erin is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, serves on the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and previously worked full time in private practice integrating Buddhism, Somatic Experiencing and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. She was also a core team member of the group that co-found Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, IBME and is a long time trainer and mentor for the Stepping Stones Project.

Executive Consultant
Lawrence Ellis, a Senior Executive Consultant for Courageous Leadership, and a certified Social Fitness Training ™ facilitator, brings over 25 years of experience in Change Consulting (Change Leadership, Organization Design, Complex Systems, Advanced Change Management, Sustainability Consulting) and Executive Coaching. For several years he was a Director at one of the world’s oldest firms specializing in Change Consulting, Interaction Associates – and has served in numerous other executive and senior leadership roles. He works across community-based, corporate, governmental and non-profit sectors. His engagement results include significant impact in technology, healthcare, sustainability, social change and other areas.
Passionate about leadership, mindfulness and sustainability, he is on faculty with the prestigious American Leadership Forum – Silicon Valley, where he teaches the region’s top leaders concepts & practices on mindfulness, ethics and transformative leadership. He is also a Trustee of World Merit, and Chief Sustainability Advisor to its 100,000 young leaders around the globe.
He received his MA studying individual and large-scale change from Oxford University while on a Rhodes Scholarship.

Executive Consultant
Donald Proby is a peacebuilder, conflict mediator, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging educator, and leadership development consultant with more than 20 years of experience.
He has served as faculty at St. Mary’s College of California, Drew University, and San Francisco State University. He recently served as Director for the Office of Mediation, Coaching, Ombuds, and Support Services for Brigham Health, where he instituted this new department, grounding it in conflict transformation and transformative learning frameworks.
Donald has provided consultancy services, coaching, training, and education across all sectors of industry from nonprofits and governmental agencies to fortune 500 companies, all with human centered approaches grounded in evidence-based practices.
He is especially effective in high conflict situations, where deep polarization and political divides are at issue. Bringing nonviolent communication (NVC) frameworks for skill building, teambuilding, and effectiveness across differences, he invites clients and participants to engage in sustainable methods and practices while embracing conflict as a call for deeper learning and connection rather than disconnection and further discord.
Donald’s research is concerned with establishing grounded theory through autoethnographic inquiry, supporting the construction of healthy attitudes and methods for transformative conflict efficacy. He is currently engaged in dissertation work for the completion of a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership at St. Mary’s College of California.
Donald seeks to bring a joyful presence to his endeavors and loves feeling connected to the world around him by sharing laughter and stories of shared humanity. He seeks to help build a happier, healthier more peaceful world through applied pedagogies that promote healing, nonviolent communication, and the cultivation of spaces for belonging.
For more information about Donald, please visit www.linkedin.com/in/donaldproby

Executive Consultant
Ken White is a dynamic, collaborative leader, committed to shared values, and evoking the best from all. Ken has worked with a variety of people, settings, and resource bases. A graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and a former journalist, he blends a wide-ranging understanding of theories, practices, and people with firsthand experience in the trenches and in boardrooms.
Ken has been fortunate to learn with people who address injustices, bridge differences, build community, and develop leadership…with an emphasis on the rising generation. He has been doubly fortunate to have mentors, colleagues, and teachers help him develop his own capacity for supporting equity and belonging.
Ken has served as CEO of the Junior State of America Foundation, Associate Director at Post Carbon Institute, Coordinating Director of the Chaordic Commons, Inc., Executive Director of Common Cause Massachusetts, and Director of Communications for the Coalition of Essential Schools. He held similar posts with Oxfam America and the Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies.

Executive Consultant
She is a social entrepreneur, earth and social justice activist and spiritual teacher. She is a co-founder of Jubilee Partners, a business of wisdom keepers and wealth holders exploring new ways to use capital and Jubilee Justice Journeys (J3) exploring at the intersection of Race, Land, Spirit & Money. She is the Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland. She is the Strategic Director of the Runway Project Oakland, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs intended to close the “Friends & Family” gap funding. Additionally, Konda is the co-founder of the annual COCAP conference in Oakland, focused on “Building the We Economy”.
She is one of the co-founders and co-facilitator of The Well-Being In Business Lab - Oakland, a cross-sector initiative guiding prominent business owners, non-profit leaders and government officials to a deeper level of intention within themselves and their businesses.
Ms. Mason, along with her partners actor Woody Harrelson and Laura Louie, owned the first home delivery service of organic food in the Los Angeles area and were the first to negotiate an organic food section in a major grocery store in 1997. Additionally, Konda leads annual eco-tourism trips to the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador in order to wake people up to become active stewards of this vital earth ecosystem.
Konda is an accomplished filmmaker and artists manager and the recipient of an Academy Award nomination and a Grammy Award winner. Konda holds a Permaculture Design Certificate, is a certified yoga teacher and a meditation teacher. She sits on the Board of Directors of The Good Work Institute, Krista Tippett’s On Being, United Roots, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center where she is in a four-year Dharma Teacher Training with Jack Kornfield as her personal mentor.

Executive Consultant & Program Partner
As an executive consultant & program partner at Courageous Leadership, Donna brings her deep expertise in building team and organization resilience to Courageous Leaderships' offerings. Dr. Donna Stoneham is also a masterful executive coach, leadership development consultant and facilitator whose focus is on helping leaders, teams and organizations thrive. She specializes in developing high potential leaders and executives, works with leaders in the midst of career transitions with increasing scope, and helps leaders build and grow powerful teams. Donna is known for being a catalyst and guide in delivering breakthrough development programs that help leaders express their talents and aspirations in ways that create a ripple effect in their families, teams, organizations and the communities they serve.
Donna brings over twenty-five years of organization and leadership development experience as a consultant and coach in Fortune 1000 companies, health care and educational institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Prior to beginning her consulting practice in 1991, Donna served in leadership positions in management, sales and marketing for divisions of The Travelers and New York Life. Over her career, she has helped hundreds of leaders develop values-driven organizations and deeper engagement and effectiveness in work and life in a wide variety of industries including technology, telecommunications, health care, bio-technology, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, government, and education. A well-respected leader, she seeks to model what she teaches. Known for her candor and compassion, Donna brings deep expertise in transformative learning, appreciative inquiry and integral coaching. Donna was certifed as an Integral Coach® and is author of the award-winning book, The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love, and Lead.

Executive Consultant
As an Executive Consultant for Courageous Leadership, Katie Kilty, Ed.D. works with individuals and organizations in the organized sport and corporate spaces. She is also an Associate Professor of Sport Management at Endicott College and Adjunct Faculty in Physical Education, Health and Coaching at Boston University.
Katie holds a doctoral degree in Counseling and Developmental Studies with a specialty in Performance Psychology from Boston University and has devoted more than 20 years to developing, implementing and researching experiential curricula designed to stimulate sustained behavioral change. Focusing on all human dimensions affecting performance, she motivates clients to understand and overcome mental blocks and barriers to success.
She also works in partnership with Sport Performance Management and Inspire Corps, and sits on the board of Moementum, and has worked with several Olympic teams in the United States and internationally. She’s published a number of articles and a book titled Creating Healthy Habits: An Adventure Guide to Teaching Health and Wellness. Her work with multicultural awareness was featured on The Teen Files: The Truth About Hate. Katie was an invited speaker at the United Nation’s International Year of Sport and Physical Education conference on Effecting Social Change Through Women’s Leadership in Sport. She has also consulted, facilitated and presented in private, public and nonprofit environments throughout the United States, Australia, Japan and Europe, serves on several professional committees, and is an active volunteer.

Executive Consultant
As an Executive Consultant for Courageous Leadership, Syda Patel Day facilitates and develops curriculum for our special programs.
Syda was the Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Coker Fellow at Yale Law School, the Holtzmann Fellow at Yale University, a National Merit Scholar, summa cum laude and voted Phi Beta Kappa by faculty. She clerked on the United States Federal Courts and did ground-breaking work for women's rights law. She has won numerous awards, fellowships and grants for her writing and activism, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Newberry Fellowship, a Steinbeck Fellowship, the Kathryn Green Fellowship at the Djerassi Center for the Arts, full fellowship grants at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center and most recently, chosen as the Lucy Grealy Scholar at Bennington College Graduate Writing Seminars.
She has been a co-founder of city community arts and services organizations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. She has been invited to speak publicly at many conferences and events, including several segments on National Public Radio, lectures and keynote speeches at the American Bar Association, and International Human Rights Law conferences, as well as several nation-wide education conferences for her recent work on Literary Curriculum in Interactive Technology. Syda holds a B.A. and J.D. from Yale, and an M.F.A. from Bennington College.

Partner & Executive Consultant
Kimberly Deterline joined Courageous Leadership as a Partner and Executive Consultant on our Courageous Belonging work. Kimberly is the Communications Director for State Campaigns for Alliance for Safety and Justice. She has spent over 20 years working on criminal justice reform and communications and training people to build public will for social change policies across race and political affiliation.
Kimberly Deterline served as Deputy Communications Director for the successful bipartisan Amendment 4 campaign in FL to restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians with felony convictions other than murder and sex offense. Kimberly helped garner support and pass the measure with over 70% of the voters.
Her clients have included criminal justice reform organizations across the country, the American Bar Association, the Ford Foundation, the Innocence Project and Van Jones, former co-host of CNN’s Crossfire and host of the Van Jones Show.. She founded and directed a communications training firm called We Interrupt This Message in San Francisco and New York which helped reform juvenile and criminal justice policy across the country, free innocent young men jailed due to racial prejudice and challenge and change biased news coverage.
Kimberly spent 5 years in New Orleans during Katrina working on communications with juvenile justice organizations to close two notoriously violent youth prisons, increase alternatives to incarceration and transform the state juvenile justice system from violent and punitive to rehabilitative while reducing recidivism rates.
She has co-produced two videos on shifting the narrative on racial justice related issues: The Moreno-Pacheco Story: A Case Study of Principles for Dealing with Race and Media and Sudden Custody Death? The Justice for Aaron Williams Campaign. Her articles on narrative change and communications have appeared in three books including Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice.

Executive Consultant Equity & Belonging Practice
AddieRose Mayer is the Executive Director of SEEDS. She is a dynamic, process-driven, strategic leader with a commitment to increasing social impact in the public, private and non-profit sectors. AddieRose had more than 15 years experience leading and facilitating teams to have brave communication across differences. As a practiced strategic thinker, AddieRose supports individuals, communities and institutions as they lean into discomfort to solve challenging social issues. As a leader and practitioner, AddieRose draws on principles of adult learning, leadership development, human-centered design, and social change. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Master’s in Public Health.
An East Coaster in humor and a West Coaster in style, AddieRose lived in New England until moving to the Bay Area in 2010. AddieRose has a passion for cooking and sharing food, spending time in the woods, and connecting with others. AddieRose is proud to be a community leader of the purpose driven community: Thrive East Bay.

Executive Consultant in Equity & Belonging Practice
Normella has actively managed, facilitated and advised diverse groups for over 20 years, and specializes in business operations, organizational performance and change, leadership development, team building, conflict transformation, and cross-cultural communications. She has specific and comprehensive training in diversity competencies and coursework, not just generalized skills applied to diversity issues, and has counseled individuals and groups at all organizational levels.
She is a dynamic and authentic person who understands the fears, obstacles, anxieties, and apprehensions that people often encounter as they attempt to navigate difference and change. She provides clarity and a sense of safety and support as she engages individuals and groups in learning how to break down barriers, challenge perceptions, examine cognitive dissonance and disrupt entrenched patterns of thinking.
Normella is a skilled presenter, communicator and facilitator with success targeting large and small audiences, and an expert in the identification, analysis, and resolution of diverse, organizational behavioral issues. She has also served as an independent coach, consultant and mediator, and through her work has supported business entities, government agencies, law enforcement, community groups, healthcare organizations, academic institutions and other nonprofits.
Her operational expertise, coupled with her strategic leadership capabilities provide her with insight into how to pragmatically integrate, leverage, and rapidly apply the principles associated with diversity, equity, inclusion, access and belonging. She has a B.A. in Organizational Leadership, an M.A. in Psychology with a Specialization in Diversity Management and holds diversity certificates from the Cornell School of International Labor Relations and the Yale School of Management.

Executive Consultant Equity & Belonging Practice
Ryan has facilitated, led and advised diverse groups for over 15 years. Ryan has extensive training and practice in coaching, counseling, transformative learning, conflict mediation, restorative justice, diversity, equity and inclusion planning and programming. Ryan has served as an adjunct assistant professor, teaching courses on leadership and peacemaking both domestically and internationally for Saint Mary’s College of California. Ryan is currently a Mediator for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Ryan has a high capacity for deep collaboration across differences and a commitment to practicing adaptive leadership and lifelong learning.

Executive Consultant