Leadership begins
Your audience deserves the inside scoop
on how leading with courage can amplify
team engagement and performance.
Shift your audience’s perspective.
With keynote presentations, audience members get a dynamic introduction into the courage-ready model that invites and equips them to rethink their approach to speaking up, stepping up and showing up in the workplace.
Shift your audience’s behavior.
With workshops, audience members get to personalize strategies and practice techniques that put courage at the foundation of personal, team and organizational performance.
Programs
Courage-Ready Culture™ : How to get and keep teams engaged for good
Learn and apply the real-world skills that create an empowered workplace culture, where
everyone is equipped and supported to speak up, show up and step up with courage.
- This program is perfect for :
- Organizations looking to increase innovation by cultivating an environment where risk-taking is routine
- Managers and leaders who want to build teams where everyone can contribute and perform to their potential
- Organizations looking to drive long-term employee engagement and productivity
- By the end of this program, participants
will be able to :- Follow the courage process employees undergo to prepare themselves to own their brilliance at work.
- Identify key opportunities within that process to deliberately engage and support their teams in taking worthwhile risks.
- Apply key strategies to those opportunities that, when repeated, start to create a culture where employees are engaged, ready, willing and able to courageously speak up, step up and show up.
Courage at Work: How to take more risks and own your brilliance
An organization’s ability to reach its highest level of excellence comes down to one thing:
its people — courageously owning their brilliance, in both typical and transitional times. In
this leadership development presentation, participants learn a process for how to manage
fear, activate personal courage and take worthwhile risks — so they can unleash their
potential and make a greater impact on their organization.
- This program is perfect for:
- Organizations that want to develop courageous leaders who can navigate change and challenges and lead the brand forward.
- Organizations looking to boost employee satisfaction by helping employees own and demonstrate their unique talents and skills.
- Organizations eager to leverage diverse, creative thinking by unlocking the potential of its employees, particularly young professionals.
- By the end of this program, participants
will be able to :- Identify three key components in the development of courage that will eliminate the frustrating feeling of not knowing where to start when facing a new challenge
- Convert those components into a process that prepares them to evaluate risks from insight, instead of insecurity
- Leverage that process when opportunities arise for them to step outside of their comfort zone and demonstrate their brilliance
If you’re wondering whether these programs can be delivered virtually, the answer is:
Yaaas.
Audience members said it best.
Source: Talkadot
Videos
Candace Doby Speaker Reel
TEDx Talk: Be Courageous. Not Fearless.
Own Your Brilliance Program Snippet
7 Reasons to love and hire Candace
The last thing you need is a speaker who puts your audience to sleep. Candace strikes an impeccable balance between educating and entertaining.
“Candace’s presentation was like a performance.”
– Dr. Miral P., MD Anderson Hospital
You’re looking for a speaker who can inject new ideas and concepts into the industry. Candace leverages her background, education and experiences and combines the academic, artist and activist to uniquely approach courageous leadership in the workplace.
“She presented a different slant that I had not experienced.”
– Anthony D., Environmental Protection Agency
The feedback you continue getting from audience members is, “we want more than motivation.” Candace honors audiences’ hunger for real growth and equips them with tangible tools of courage they can apply at work tomorrow.
“Incredibly engaging and impactful session with many actionable tools that I am certain I will put into action immediately. One of the best sessions I have ever been to.”
– Audience member feedback from Talkadot
Spotty communication with a speaker stresses you out big time. Candace creates a no-stress zone by getting clients what they need before they need it.
You want a speaker who respects your event and audience. Candace is serious about connecting with audiences in the most impactful way. That’s why she does interviews to hear real stories and real challenges from people who will be in the room.
“The process was just so easy. And, I appreciated Candace’s commitment to getting to know the audience.”
– Kristin Graham, Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented
You’re committed to exposing your audience to diverse voices. Candace is a Southern born and bred, Black woman who unapologetically leverages her experience to connect to, interact with and elevate attendees.
It’s not easy to admit, but at the end of the day, you want a speaker who helps you look good. Candace gets it. Past clients share that after Candace speaks, colleagues don’t ask, “why did you hire her?” Instead, they want to know, “where did you find her?”