Vulnerability isn't weakness. It's the most accurate measure of courage a leader has.
Dare to Lead™ Facilitation for teams ready to build the specific skills of courageous leadership. As a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Kristi Frederick brings Brené Brown's research off the page and into lived practice: real conversations, real friction, real repair. This is Brené Brown's methodology, delivered as its own dedicated engagement, built around the four skill sets that research shows separate daring leaders from everyone else: rumbling with vulnerability, living into values, braving trust, and learning to rise. Here's what I know to be true: courage is a collection of measurable, teachable skills, not a personality trait. Every session is built to build those skills in the room, out loud, with a Courage Treat passed around the circle to make the practicing feel lighter than it sounds.
Ways to Work Together
Dare to Lead™ Intro Workshop
For teams ready to build a shared language for courage
A focused, high-energy introduction to the four skill sets of courageous leadership: rumbling with vulnerability, living into values, braving trust, and learning to rise. Teams leave with a shared language, and Courage Treats along the way to make the practicing feel lighter than it sounds.
Ideal for: teams new to Dare to Lead™, all-staff kickoffs, culture-change launches
Full-Day Dare to Lead™ Workshop
For teams ready to go all in for a day
A full day of experiential learning and honest conversation most teams never get permission to have. Enough time to actually integrate the work, not just hear about it.
Ideal for: leadership teams ready to go deep, offsites, annual retreats
Dare to Lead™ Train the Trainer
For leaders ready to bring this work in-house
A pathway for your own people leaders to become certified internal facilitators, carrying Dare to Lead™ forward inside your organization long after the initial engagement ends.
Ideal for: organizations building internal L&D capacity, HR and people teams, multi-year culture initiatives
Kristi has spoken for and facilitated with:
SHRM Oregon State Council, Mid-Valley SHRM, LCHRA, Southern Oregon Safety Conference, UCAN Douglas County, NW Youth Corps, Lithia Motors, Dutch Bros Coffee, Rogue Credit Union, Wildlife Images, and organizations across healthcare, education, and the nonprofit sector.
Available for regional, national, and virtual engagements.
Kristi Frederick is a Leadership and Culture Alchemist, keynote speaker, and Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator with 20 years of experience helping leaders and organizations do the hard, human work of actually working together. She holds a Master's in Organization Development and Change from Penn State, credentials through the International Coaching Federation, and is a BetterUp certified coach.
Her rooms are brave and kind. She tells the truth. And people leave changed, not just informed.
Kristi is based in Southern Oregon and available for engagements nationwide and virtually worldwide.
Here's what I know to be true: the teams that thrive aren't the ones with the fewest hard conversations. They're the ones who know how to have them and still like each other after.