Season 3 of The Courage Hotline Podcast is here!

Leadership development coaching for professionals who are ready to courageously show up, speak up, and step up in the workplace

Here’s what clients are saying …


Candace is an expert on courage! Her approach is something I will continue to remember when I’m making difficult decisions. The strategies are practical, and they gave me the tools to have future courageous conversations.

– Ashlee A.


Even if you believe you are courageous, coaching with Candace allows you to answer some deep questions about courage and you. Our sessions allowed me to self-reflect and do some inner-growth work.

– Imani W.


As a recent grad, my job search has been a place in my life where I was fearful and found it hard to find the courage to sell myself. Working with Candace gave me the push to get me out of my comfort zone. I can now view opportunities differently.

– Mikhayla S.

If you look at any list of must-have qualities for great leaders, you will almost always find COURAGE included.

So, let’s get to work on developing and activating yours.

You have things to do.

You have risks to take and boundaries to burn. You have divergent ideas to share, teams to lead and processes to improve. You have feedback to deliver, conformity to resist and potential to step into.

But, I get it. You’re exhausted …

… from constantly weighing a decision about whether to speak up around people who seem to have more influence, experience and testosterone than you. You’re afraid your unique ideas and opinions will be rejected because you’re young, female or introverted. You’re also burnt out from covering up an authentic expression of yourself just to make other people comfortable (and happy). And, truth be told, you’re tired of playing small to avoid stepping on someone else’s toes.
 
You’ve reached the realization that you NEED to call up your courage to move beyond your present pattern and unlock your potential.
 
But, here’s the problem …
 
You don’t actually understand how courage works. On top of that, you don’t know how to develop it and can’t seem to figure out how to leverage it. 
 
How do you know when your confidence is bigger than the risk in front of you? What’s the first thing you should do when you want to act with courage? How do you develop the part of courage helps you persevere through a challenge?
 
There’s a lot to think about. But, it’s all good. Really. 

Check your fear and build your courage ...

so you can get busy leveling up and pursuing your most meaningful goals.Together, we can push your goal out of your head and into action so you can grown into a better person and professional. Let me show you how to activate your courage to do the hard things.
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What do clients walk away with?

A lot. We’ll engage in candid conversation to work out what’s keeping you stuck, and you’ll leave well-equipped with the knowledge and tools of courage to shift from inaction to action.

 
During our time together, you’ll learn:
 


What courage really is, how it really works and why you can not do hard things without it


Three critical components of courage that lead to its development and practice


How to evaluate risks and resources to help make tough decisions from insight, not insecurity


A clear, step-by-step process to activate courage that can be rinsed and repeated endlessly

As a result of coaching, previous clients have:


Had difficult conversations with colleagues and managers about boundaries and belonging


Spoken up in meetings with their unique perspective and divergent ideas


Advocated for their team members privately, publicly and unapologetically


Powerfully stepped into new roles that require them to manage teammates who were previously peers


Amplified emotional intelligence to build better relationships at work


Gone after promotions and negotiated salaries

Who is coaching for?


Emerging leaders and young professionals who:

— Are ready to speak up and step up at work but get caught up in a loop of second guessing themselves and avoiding the first step forward.

— Have specific career goals but get overwhelmed with change and are stuck in place with no clarity, no motivation and no plan.

— Need help recognizing and believing in their brilliance so they can make a greater impact on their team and organization.

— Want to have hard conversations about boundaries and belonging but become consumed with fears of failure. 

— Are in transition between positions and feel shaken by a lack of control.

— Want to model courageous leadership for their team.

MEET CANDACE, the Courage Coach

Hi, I’m Candace — a courage coach, habitual risk-taker, speaker, author, former marketing strategist and perfectionist in recovery.
 
When I first stepped foot into a marketing leadership role for a billion-dollar brand, I speculated that my most important assignment would be to teach my young team of marketers how to build strategic plans and measure the success of them.
 
But, when our conversations turned to fears about giving feedback, discomfort from standing up for their ideas and hesitation around bringing their full selves to work, I knew my most critical task was something else: to help my team call up their courage to own their brilliance — to lay claim to their unique skills, ideas and experiences so they could grow into better people and professionals.
 
It’s a skill I — often the only Black woman in the room — had to practice and learn for myself to be able to share my unique perspective with colleagues who had more extroversion and tenure than me.
 
I came to understand that when employees don’t courageously own their brilliance, they can’t demonstrate it. When they can’t demonstrate it, their colleagues can’t recognize it. When their colleagues can’t recognize it, they can’t learn from it. When they can’t learn from it, they don’t see the value in it.
 
Now, I’ve taken what I learned from my professional experience and combined it with a decade of research on courage to help over 40,000 emerging leaders and managers conjure their courage and grow into the the leaders their organizations know they can be.
 
Let’s get to work on building your courage muscle.