Dare to Lead™ – 8 Weeks with Cheryl Cofield

Unlock your courage, deepen your leadership, and transform your organization from the inside out with Dare to Lead™, an organizational courage-building program rooted in the research of New York Times best selling author, Dr. Brené Brown. Join Cheryl Cofield, Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and leaders from across the nation, for an immersive experience.

8-Week, Blended, Asynchronous & Synchronous Dare to LeadTM Certificate Program

Flexible,1.5 hours/week self-paced learning (engaging videos, readings & activities) and 1.5 hours/week of synchronous Zoom facilitation (deep dialogue, coaching & reflection), “Dare to Lead Trained” certificate and global badge for LinkedIn profile included.

About the Dare to Lead™ Program

Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is a highly interactive, empirically based courage-building program for leaders focused on the following 4 skill sets that are measurable, teachable and observable:

Rumbling with Vulnerability

Bravely navigate risk, uncertainty and emotional exposure, lay down protective “armor,” master shame resilience, explore how shame, fear, and perfectionism show up in leadership, and navigate tough “truth to power” conversations with clarity, empathy, and grace.

Living Into Our Values

Identify top values and what you stand for, identify behaviors that help you live into your values, and learn to show up from a place of integrity in every aspect of life.

BRAVING Trust

Build authentic connections, and create, restore and foster workplace trust by setting clear boundaries, demonstrating reliability, and holding yourself and others accountable.

Learning to Rise

Learn self-mastery to regulate your emotions, interrogate your stories, and bounce back to lead courageously even after failure, setbacks, and disappointments.

 What You’ll Learn

This is more than leadership theory—it’s practical, personal, and powerful. With Cheryl’s guidance, you’ll work through:

🛡️Heart of Daring Leadership 

• radical self-awareness and emotional literacy
• Examining our “call to courage” and ways leaders “armor up” in the face of fear
• skills and tools to lead with “grounded confidence” 

🛡️Rumbling with Vulnerability 

• dispel myths around vulnerability
• recognize and regulate shame triggers and patterned responses to shame
• learn how scarcity, perfectionism, and comparison derail workplace connection
• strategies for shame resilience and skills for empathy and self-compassion

🛡️Living Into Values 

• identify top 2 core values and concrete behaviors that support values
• alignment recognize“power over” as destabilizing/limiting, and “power with” as creating expansive possibilities

🛡️B.R.A.V.I.N.G. Trust 

• skills to operationalize the 7 behavioral elements of trust 
• strategies for building trust incrementally over time
• strategies for setting boundaries and navigating tough feedback conversations 

🛡️Learning to Rise 

• reset after setbacks utilizing Rising Strong™ framework 
• harness “meaning making” to decrease reliance on stories that shape thinking and behaviors
• practice “curiosity cues” to stay in tough conversations with courage, clarity, and integrity

Who should attend?

Any leader who wants to be braver and who is committed to leading authentically, ethically inclusively, and wholeheartedly. HR, DEI, People, Culture & Learning Leaders, Business Leaders, In-house employment counsel, educators, community leaders, health professionals, coaches and consultants.

What You’ll Learn ...

• Skills, strategies, tools, frameworks, and common language to manifest deep courage in both professional and personal settings
• Lead bravely and cultivate courageous work cultures
• Gracefully navigate tough, delicate, workplace conversations
• Clarify and meaningfully operationalize core values
• Practice empathy, self-care, and emotional wellbeing
• Build trust through accountability, reliability and boundary setting
• Strategically rise and reset from setback and failures

What you'll get:

• Science-based, transformational learning
• Master-level, highly interactive, facilitation by a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator
• Digital Dare to Lead™ Workbook
• Brené Brown videos created exclusively for Dare to Lead™ participants
• Networking opportunities with like-minded, equally yoked, professionals from across the nation

'Circle Back' group coaching session approximately 1 month after program

• Dare to Lead Trained Certificate and digital LinkedIn badge, globally recognized leadership credentials (24-hour program graduates only)
• Access to semi-annual group coaching circles (24-hour program graduates only)
• Possible CEUs - Dare to Lead™ leadership competencies often qualify (CME, CNE, PMP, ICF, SHRM), check with your accrediting bodies.

Cheryl Cofield | Cultural Strategist | Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator

Cheryl, a 25 year veteran attorney, HR, LOD, DEI practitioner, and master storyteller brings lived experience, deep wisdom, street smarts, and transformative facilitation to this journey. With a voice that invites reflection and essence that fosters belonging, Cheryl creates safe containers for individuals and organizations to evolve beyond performative leadership toward the real work of courage, trust, authenticity, and self-mastery.

About the Facilitator

Cheryl Cofield is a corporate leadership trainer, executive coach, storyteller, keynote speaker, and Certified Dare to LeadTM Facilitator (trained by Dr. Brené Brown). She assists leaders with increasing authenticity, building courage, aligning values, and deepening emotional literacy. Cheryl is a seasoned storyteller best known for her ability to masterfully hold space for courageous conversation, build connection across difference, and evoke powerful transformation.

With over 20 years of experience, Cheryl has managed complex human capital portfolios for Fortune 10 corporations, served as a civil rights, employment, and trial attorney for a myriad of local and national governmental entities, served as dean of inclusive leadership, chief dialogue officer, and curator of storytelling integration in Higher Education administrations, and led global Belonging & Inclusion efforts for international humanitarian and global social justice organizations.

Cheryl has served on advisory boards for The Conference Board, Linkages Institute for Leading Diversity & Inclusion, the College & University Professional Association, the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate Academy’s Executive Leaders Program, and the American Institute for Managing Diversity. Her award-winning leadership development programs have been recognized in publications such as Psychology Today, The Academic Leader, and The Higher Education Workplace Magazine.

Cheryl is the founder and CEO of Culture of Civility International, a leadership development and courage building consultancy serving clients in more than 20 countries; Story Masters International, a boutique storytelling agency focused on preserving social justice, identity, and healing stories; and Power Within: Sisters Rising Bravely, a women’s empowerment movement dedicated to building courage and self-efficacy in women. She has served a host of prominent leaders in organizations such as Federal Reserve Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Dropbox, March of Dimes, Yale University, Cornell Medical Center, National Center for Civil & Human Rights, Barclays, Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, Sunshine & Sachs, The Atlanta Girls School, Jack and Jill of America, Inc., YWCA,, CARE USA, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Cheryl enjoys fencing, art collecting and performing magic, and believes in the liberating power of naps. Cheryl is the proud mother of Zoe Ariana, a 4th year student at Emory University School of Medicine.

About 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 including Dare to Lead, which also debuted at #1 on The Wall Street Journal and Publisher’s Weekly list.