Programme
Leadership is proven in the arena.
A human-centred leadership programme built on ten lessons, four domains and thirteen years of sitting with leaders at their bravest.
The promise
Courage as a daily practice, not a personality trait.
BRAVE is not about being fearless. It is about recognising the armour a leader puts on, understanding what it costs the people around them, and choosing to lead without it.
Ten lessons, four domains, and thirteen years of sitting with leaders at the moments where courage was the only thing left to use.
Four domains
What the programme works on, in the order it works on it.
Recognising fear and armour
What we protect, and what it costs.
Vulnerability as foundation
Courage that connects.
Psychological safety
The conditions leaders create.
Accountability and repair
Clarity is kindness. Repair is a skill.
Ten lessons
Ten conversations most leadership programmes leave out.
Each lesson is a conversation rather than a lecture, and each one is practised in the room before anyone is asked to take it back to their team.
It Starts With You
What You Resist Persists
The Fish Rots from the Head
The Smell of the Place, Own It
Walk the Talk
Lead Like Andy
No More Ostrich-in-the-Sand Moments
Clarity Is Kindness
Accountability Without Armour
Repair Is a Leadership Skill
How it runs
Four domains, worked through together.
- Delivered to a leadership team or a cohort, so the new behaviour has witnesses
- Ten lessons, each one a conversation rather than a lecture
- Practised in the room: the hard conversation, the repair, the moment of clarity
- Anchored in BRAVE: The Courage to RISE, so the language stays alive afterwards
Who it is for
Leaders whose teams have gone quiet.
- Executive teams where the real conversation happens after the meeting, not in it
- Leaders newly carrying a team, who have not yet been shown how to hold one
- Organisations that have named psychological safety as a value and want it to be true
- Women in leadership, through the BRAVE Women gatherings and the movement around them
The book and the movement
BRAVE did not stay a programme.
BRAVE: The Courage to RISE is Christina’s fifth book and the source of the programme.
BRAVE is also a movement: BRAVE Women in Leadership gatherings, Imbokodo Rising on International Women’s Day in Johannesburg, and the BRAVE Rising Foundation, our not-for-profit lane in South Africa.
Be BRAVE. Be the Light. Leave a Legacy.
BRAVE for Women in Medicine
A version built for the hospital, and a way to bring it to yours.
Two short guides: what the programme involves and who it is for, and how to bring it into your own hospital or team.
In Australia
Christina Foxwell
Founder and Global CEO
Let us introduce ourselves properly.
If any of this resonates, we would value a short conversation to understand your people priorities and show you where we could help. No pitch, and no obligation.
In Australia you will hear from Christina Foxwell and the Sydney team.