Public Speaking

Brooke Deterline, CEO

As CEO of Courageous Leadership, Brooke Deterline and her colleagues help boards, executives and teams develop the understanding and skills to act with ethical courage and ingenuity to overcome complex and challenging business problems under pressure. She combines social and cognitive psychology and a strategic focus with a passion for leadership, collaboration, inclusion, and impact. Brooke is a former journalist at SmartMoney magazine and a trained mediator. Her talks and workshops are highly interactive and engaging. They provide groups with research-based tools and practice that build relationships; surface individual and systemic dynamics that interfere with ethical courage and wise action; and, create patterns that support long-term creativity, well-being and success. Brooke is a TEDx speaker and a HuffPo Blogger on Courageous Leadership.

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Public Speaking Topics

  • Achieve the awareness, skills and social support to help ensure ethically courageous and wise individual and team action under pressure.

  • Build Socially Fit™ teams to increase competence, collaboration, morale and organizational resilience. Similar to athletes, teams learn to leverage stress and adrenaline in challenging times to improve performance through new mindsets, increased collaboration, and social support.

  • Ensure that teams have the required awareness and skills to consistently act with ethical courage under pressure. This circumvents the often-invisible social dynamics that lead to small and large-scale scandals, and significant loss of human and organizational value.

  • Identify unconscious bias and social influences that can inhibit full engagement from diverse teams to honor and empower all voices and communication styles.

  • Learn to leverage stress and adrenaline to improve performance, increase competence and collaboration, and improve well-being.

  • Develop ethically courageous leaders who are trusted, respected and effective by ensuring that they have the skills to act in accord with their values while under pressure and inspire the best in others.

  • Understand the unique opportunities and challenges facing women in leadership. Empower women with the understanding and skills to positively and powerfully influence teams and organizations. Safeguard against invisible and negative situational influences. Help raise team and organizational awareness of unconscious bias and patterns that hinder the greatest engagement and collaboration.

 
Testimonials

“Conducting ‘social flight simulations’ of challenging organizational situations was one of the most significant experiences of my professional career. It gave me the opportunity to confront - head-on - some issues that have been both stressful to me, and without a clear solution to the organization. The program has changed the way I see challenging situations to where I actually welcome them as a source of team and organizational learning and growth."

— Clint, CEO Participant

“I really enjoyed the presentation. It was informative, resourceful and motivating. I feel I will definitely use these tools in the future.”

— Unnamed, Omidyar Participant

“Armed with tools from Courageous Leadership, I began to expand my capacity to apply personal values in situations where I formerly coasted through on mental auto-pilot.”

— Luke, Toigo Participant

Lynne Henderson, Ph.D., CCO

As the Chief Curriculum Officer of Courageous Leadership, Dr. Henderson  is translating her Social Fitness Training ™, a cognitive behavioral model developed over 25 years, into structured exercises that facilitate skillful courageous conversations in stressful situations. 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.

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Public Speaking Topics

  • Learn how Dr. Lynne Henderson's evidence-based cognitive-behavioral model, called Social Fitness Training TM, can help transform what people do in stressful, challenging situations into courageous actions that enhance group collaboration and support the creation of adaptive leadership in the workplace.

  • Discover how compassion-focused techniques are an integral part of helping people to act in accord with their values - particularly in business and healthcare, two industries where social influences unwittingly affect behavior and increase the risk of scandals, misconduct, and missed opportunities.