Inhouse Dare to Lead Programs
The Dare To Lead™ program and experience can be customised to suit your specific organisational leadership development needs.
In consultation, we will develop your bespoke Dare to Lead™ program, which best meets your organisational culture, priorities and expectations.
Is this right for you and your team?
Reach out now for your free consultation.
What might this development program look like?
Each organisation is unique, and so we pay careful attention to program design and delivery.
Phase 1: Diagnostic
During this step, an understanding of the organisational landscape, including reviewing any leadership competency framework, prior culture work, and other relevant material, will be conducted. Through conversation and review, Michelle will gain a deep insight into the current challenges and opportunities.
Michelle will provide advice on the best structure and flow of the Dare to Lead™ program to ensure optimal outcomes and benefits.
Phase 2: Introduction and set up
Your team will be introduced to the concepts underpinning Dare to Lead™ and the pre-work for the upcoming session.
This pre-work may include the following online assessment tools, which each examine courage through a specific lens:
- Daring Leadership Assessment – measures an individual’s strengths and opportunities against the four skill sets of courage.
- Armoured Leadership vs Daring Leadership Assessment – examines the team’s cultural norms related to armoured and daring leadership behaviours.
- BRAVING Trust in Teams Assessment – explores the level of trust in the team, as measured by the seven elements of trust.
- Courage-Building Importance – assess if participants understand why increasing courage-building skills is a priority for their team.
Phase 3: Delivery
Delivery of the program’s curriculum can be sequential (i.e. three days back-to-back) or phased (i.e. over a series of days, either whole or half-day) and face-to-face, virtual, or a combination of both.
Michelle will guide you on the best option for your team based on the insights gained in Phase 1.
Phase 4: Integration and embedment
Over an agreed timeframe, typically 6 – 12 months, there are monthly one-hour online group coaching sessions. These discussions are a fabulous opportunity to refresh insights, integrate concepts into the workplace and ensure real-life application of the learning.
Phase 5: Evaluation and next steps
At the end of the rollout of the leadership program, re-taking the earlier assessments is encouraged to determine progress and areas of continued focus. For example, this may include further work on defining your organisational values, training leaders in the art of courageous conversations, building team practices to help work through setbacks and challenges, and building influencing skills across your team members.
Changing behaviour and elevating culture takes time and requires concerted focus on integrating learnings into processes, systems and behaviours.
Reach out now for your free consultation.
Praise for Dare to Lead™
“I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend Michelle’s Dare to Lead course to everyone. Michelle has a warm and engaging style and weaves her own years of skill building and experience into the research of Brene Brown. There’s lots of time for discussion and extending our learning during the course, and Michelle generously shares her knowledge with me in an ongoing way via her website: The Weekly Edition. Thanks Michelle!”
Maria Orr, Senior Programs Manager, Anglicare
“I have been looking at doing the Dare to Lead course for a while now, however I wanted to ensure that it was with the right facilitator. The time I spent with Michelle Gibbings was simply priceless. Run in a small group with other like minded individuals, it was wonderful to go through rumbling with vulnerability, how we amour ourselves, being in the arena, sharing our experiences and working together. I loved how Michelle bought her own experience and lens to the session which added to the already rich program. We have had several further connections and check ins post the course being completed. I would highly recommend Michelle as a facilitator and coach.”
Sadhana Smiles, CEO, Real Estate Industry Partners
“Thought provoking yet practical – I found Michelle’s Dare to Lead program extremely thought-provoking, with practical tools provided to encourage changing your leadership approach for the better, for good. One great facet of the learning was the in-person sessions with fellow participants – a bunch of seriously talented leaders with growth mindsets – all who were happy to share their insights, challenge their own leadership style and candidly workshop new styles of leading. The final part of the winning formula was the integration plan – a practical plan to ensure the tools provided as part of daring to lead are applied in real life.”
Felicia B (Financial Services)
“Michelle gave us the tools for real world applications that are critical to living into our values both personally and professionally. I am walking out of the course feeling empowered to have tough conversations and step into the arena.”
Alyssa Brown, Head of Content, Easy Weddings
“Great content from an inspiring leader. Michelle’s delivery and she is exemplary. It challenges the heart and mind. Very fulfilling.”
Justin Dickinson, Production Manager, Hardchrome Engineering Pty Ltd
“Michelle is a wonderful facilitator - she is knowledgeable, engaging and incredibly relatable. The Dare to Lead™ program challenges you to do better, to be better and provides you with the tools to achieve your challenge of being a daring leader.”
Kate Appledore, Program Lead - Enterprise Quality and Risk, Western Victoria Primary Health Network
“Meaningful and valuable content that Michelle skillfully and clearly shared with practical examples. Thoroughly recommend Michelle’s Dare to Lead™ program. Well worth the trip to Melbourne to attend face to face.”
Narelle Dempster, Risk & Due Diligence Lead, The Fred Hollows Foundation
“Michelle draws on and shares her own experiences which really helps bring the material to life.”
Nick Codling, Commercial Advisor, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications
“The course was well worth attending. It was extremely valuable in providing tools to work through the day to day encounters we have with our peers and stakeholders in building trust, developing and maintaining relationships and becoming more self-aware in order to lead people and bring out the best in those we influence.”
Sarah Cass, Group Risk Assurance Manager, Australian Super
“Michelle is an amazing facilitator who leads and guides the group through the content bringing her own authentic and real life examples from her prior experiences and brings the content to life. The Dare to Lead™ program far exceeded my expectations”.
Tamsin Beale, Senior Corporate Marketing Consultant, UniSuper
“Michelle is always enthusiastic, knowledgeable and real. Her experience shows. Her authenticity brings Brene Brown’s work to life in an Australian context.”
Tracy McGowan, Associate Director, Regulatory Controls, National Australia Bank
“The Dare to Lead™ program will definitely change the way you think about leadership. Makes you understand what is required to be a daring leader”.
Ven Ramanan, Client Services Manager, Easy Weddings
“Great course, enjoyed Michelle’s practical application/experiences in applying the tools and concepts.”
Phil Tudor, University of Melbourne
“Great facilitators who presented high diversity material clearly, energetically and authentically. So many useful skills to take back to my workplace which I am confident will improve outcomes for myself and my team.”
Tabitha Healey, Consultant Physician, Mary Potter Hospice
“Dare to Lead™ was a fantastic opportunity to get a better insight into how to implement effective leadership and change within a team or organisation.”
Phoebe Wainer, Speech Language Pathologist, Gumboots Child Therapy Service
“Genuine, caring leaders presented the course. It was professional, well-pitched and practical.”
Michelle Simmonds, Paediatric Occupational Therapist, Gumboots Child Therapy Service
“Highly recommend Dare to Lead™. The course provides insights and practical tools for caring and courageous leadership.”
Dr Susan Entwisle, Asst. Vice President, Cognizant Digital Business
“Never really thought about vulnerability as a leader of people. I now head to the arena with vulnerability front of mind.”
Ross Gaudian, State Manager, MAX | A Tabcorp Company
“I wish I had these skills and knew about these techniques years ago!
Julia Wilkinson, Employee Communications Partner, Tabcorp
“Moving through the Dare to Lead™ process as a management group helped strengthen our understanding of each other’s lenses and how we can support each other to be courageous leaders and be kind to our teams.”
Vanessa Wolf, Gumboots Child Therapy Service
"This program is life changing. The content is powerful and is something every leader would benefit from on their journey to being a better leader and a better human."
Judy Greenslade, Group Head of People, Panthera Finance
"A wonderful opportunity to think about leadership and how we can all become better leaders."
Liza Allen, Dean, Dunmore Lang College
"Learning about the armour I am putting on and how that is inhibiting our conversations with my team is going to be so helpful in supporting them better."
Alex Miller, Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia
"Great course for anyone looking to build their leadership kit out further. Recognising armoured leadership habits and how you can change them was my biggest take out to take back to my team."
Jo Sales, Rabobank
"Michelle and Julia have well executed the Dare to Lead™ program! The two days were well structured - worth taking the time out from the office. 'Learning to Rise' is something I shall practise everyday. Thank you!"
Reshma Gandhi, Senior Change Manager, Westpac
"The Dare to Lead™ program was exceptional. We were all engaged throughout the entire two days and are leaving with lots of tangible tools to take back to work. Thank you!"
Linda Murray, Speaker, Trainer and Executive Coach, Athena Leadership
"The course was very well structured and it really challenged my thinking on what it means to be vulnerable at work. I learnt the link between vulnerability and courage, what it means to be empathetic versus sympathetic and why being in the arena is what matters most."
Ama Aidoo-Sam, Strategic Procurement Manager, Canon Australia
"Michelle and Julia led an engaging two days and provided interesting and practical tips on Brené Brown's learnings to take back to work. Great personal growth too."
Leanne Bridges, Manager, Community Engagement, Cycleways and Streetscapes, City of Sydney
"This is a must for everyone who considers themselves to be a leader. It will challenge you, but you will come out the other side more vulnerable, yet strong and better equipped for anything that comes your way."
Melissa Clohesy, Chief Financial Officer, Dunmore Lang College
"I really enjoyed this course. It provided me with an opportunity to explore some pretty raw emotions which I think will help me be a better leader."
Kelly Mitchell, Employee Experience Lead, Tabcorp Holdings Ltd
"I was initially put off by the whole vulnerability and shame research this course was built on but getting through that I have found this training very insightful and thought provoking."
Tony Graham, Delivery Lead, Tabcorp Holdings Ltd
"Courageous course - get ready to get deep in reflection and rumble with your vulnerability."
Emma Smith, Culture & People Partner, Woolworths
"Dare to Lead™ is a great way to build further self awareness as part of a journey to being a true leader."
Simon Vertullo, Operating Partner, Spiique
"This course has changed the way I think about leading people. Practical insights into how to think about and prepare for tough conversations."
Jarrod Harrington, Head of Technology – Delivery & Transformation, Tabcorp Holdings Ltd
"Many insights about self which will go a long way for personal / professional development. It was an engaging and inspiring workshop."
Alison Aqulinia, Project Change Communications Consultant, Hesta
"It was a great course that immersed us into insights and well researched learnings. It is helpful to go deep with Brené Brown’s theory and to connect dots on how this may help me and my organisation evolve."
Tina Brunet, Service Designer – Employment, Vision Australia