Overview
Great teachers are great (and brave) leaders
Having the courage to show up and to be vulnerable as a leader can be challenging. But, it’s something that can be taught and ultimately, has the potential to transform your leadership and amplify your impact.
In this seminar, you will learn how to be braver as a leader in your interactions with other school leaders/teachers, students and their families. You will also explore ‘integration ideas’ - key concepts and tools that you can use to introduce brave leadership and Dare to Lead™ to your students, to help you build braver and safer classrooms.
Will you become a Brave Leader?
This interactive 3-hour Seminar will explore the key concepts of Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ and Daring Classrooms™ curriculum and provide a deep dive into the crucial skill set that leaders need to shape behaviours, influence performance and make difficult decisions easier.Don’t miss this opportunity to unleash your leadership potential with the tools and strategies of one of the greatest leadership minds of our time. Become the leader your students and school community need you to be. Understand the concepts and tools created by Dr Brené Brown and her team, and gain actionable skills from one of her certified facilitators.
This seminar will not be recorded or available on-demand and is LIVE ONLY.
What is Dare to Lead™?
Based on the research of Dr Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to be run by certified facilitators exclusively. 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 also the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers including her blockbuster book Dare to Lead. This seminar is designed as a shortcut to Brené’s extended Dare to Lead™ curriculum, as well as our own best-selling Brave Leadership Masterclass and will explore its key concepts in a compact timeframe to optimise your professional development.
What can I expect from this online seminar?
Who will attend?
This seminar is designed for School Leaders and Educators in secondary and primary schools looking to improve their effectiveness, influence and overall performance through research-backed leadership tools.Group Discounts
Groups of 10 save 10% | Groups of 20 save 20%What will you take away?
- Understand courageous leadership and how it drives high performance and builds trust to create a stronger school community
- Remove your barriers to courage by identifying the “armour” you wear at work
- Understand how to build brave spaces for students to learn and flourish
- Gain knowledge of the four skill sets that make a brave leader
- Take a deep dive into the values skill set to become a reliable, confident and effective school and classroom leader
Key Speakers


Synergy IQ
In the balmy city of San Antonio, Texas in early 2019, Michelle Holland became a Dare to Lead™ facilitator certified by Dr Brené Brown herself.
Michelle is a specialist in business culture transformation and self actualised Leadership. She brings the Dare to Lead program to life by showing you how to apply courage-building skill sets to improve your leadership style, and your team and organisation culture, and as a bonus… improve your life.
Michelle’s dream is to create workplaces where people are valued and feel safe, and organisations that are great places to work and do business. In 2013, after holding a range of positions in human resources and senior management, Michelle founded SynergyIQ, a management consultancy. Michelle now runs SynergyIQ with her business partner, and a team of amazing consulting and change professionals specialising in leadership, culture, and change.