Research professor and TED talk phenomenon Dr Brene Brown reveals how to choose courage over comfort, so we can step up, make a difference and dare to lead.
Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation-Brene Brown Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She is also a visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Brown has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy, and is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers- The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the bestselling anthology You Are Your Best Thing- Vulnerability, Shame Resilience and the Black Experience. She hosts the Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead podcasts, and her TEDx talk, "The Power of Vulnerability", is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world with more than 50 million views. Her Netflix special, The Call to Courage, is the first filmed lecture by a researcher on the streaming service. Brown lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie.
With Dare to Lead, Brene brings decades of research to bear
in a practical and insightful guide to courageous leadership. This
book is a road map for anyone who wants to lead mindfully, live
bravely, and dare to lead. * Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook,
founder of LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org *
Brene visited Pixar to talk with our filmmakers. Her message was
important, as movies are best when they come from a place of
vulnerability, when the people who make them encounter setbacks and
are forced to overcome them, when they are willing to have their
asses handed to them. It is easy to sit back and talk about the
values of a safe and meaningful culture, but extraordinarily
difficult to pull it off. You don't achieve good culture without
constant attention, without an environment of safety, courage, and
vulnerability. These are hard skills, but they are teachable
skills. Start with this book. * Ed Catmull, president, Pixar and
Walt Disney Animation Studios *
Whether you're leading a movement or a start-up, if you're trying
to change an organizational culture or the world, Dare to
Lead will challenge everything you think you know about brave
leadership and give you honest, straightforward, actionable tools
for choosing courage over comfort. * Tarana Burke, senior director,
Girls for Gender Equity, founder, the Me Too movement *
We asked Brene to bring her work on courage and vulnerability to
our Air Force base. This is a tough audience, many of them with
significant combat experience. Within five minutes, you could have
heard a pin drop. Brene cuts through the noise and speaks to what
makes us human and makes the mission happen. Dare to Lead is
about real leadership: tenacious, from the heart, and full of grit.
* Brigadier General Brook J. Leonard, United States Air Force *
Brene is Google Empathy Lab's Obi-Wan Kenobi. She has profoundly
inspired our product leaders to design in and embrace
vulnerability, rather than engineer it out. It's a critical and
transformative act to bring your alive, messy, wholehearted human
self to work every day. Dare to Lead is the skillful and
empowering Jedi training we have all been waiting for. * Danielle
Krettek, founder, Google Empathy Lab *
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