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Dare to Lead™ — 3-Day Courageous Leadership Workshop | Chattanooga


  • The Chattanoogan Hotel 1201 Broad Street Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37402 United States (map)

This is an open-enrollment event available to individuals and participants from any organization.

Build the courage to lead when the work gets hard.

Dr. Brené Brown spent years researching leadership, courage, vulnerability, trust, and organizational culture.

As part of her research, she interviewed 150 global C-suite executives about what needs to change in the way people lead in order to succeed in increasingly complex and rapidly changing environments.

One answer consistently emerged:

We need braver leaders and more courageous cultures.

Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to help leaders develop the skills needed to navigate difficult conversations, uncertainty, accountability, trust, change, setbacks, and the everyday challenges of leading people.

This highly interactive 24-hour workshop combines facilitated discussion, self-reflection, practical exercises, dialogue, and Dare to Lead™ curriculum and video content.

The Four Skill Sets of Courage

Rumbling with Vulnerability

Learn how to face risk, uncertainty, difficult conversations, and emotional exposure with greater courage and clarity.

Living into Our Values

Identify the values that matter most to you and translate them into specific, observable behaviors that guide how you lead and make decisions.

BRAVING Trust

Learn the seven elements of trust and how to intentionally build, repair, and deepen trust within teams, relationships, and organizations.

Learning to Rise

Develop skills for navigating failures, setbacks, disappointment, and difficult experiences so you can learn, reset, and move forward.

What Does Daring Leadership Look Like?

Daring leaders develop the ability to:

  • Have hard and courageous conversations

  • Hold themselves and others accountable

  • Build and repair trust

  • Lead with empathy while maintaining clear boundaries

  • Give and receive meaningful feedback

  • Navigate uncertainty and change

  • Take thoughtful risks that support innovation

  • Recognize when fear and self-protection are influencing leadership

  • Recover and learn from setbacks

  • Create stronger, more connected teams

  • Turn values into everyday leadership behaviors

This workshop will connect the Dare to Lead™ research to the real cultural and leadership challenges organizations and individuals are navigating today.

You will leave with practical tools, common language, and leadership practices you can begin applying immediately.

What is your call to courage?

Event Details

Where: The Chattanoogan Hotel 1201 Broad St Chattanooga, Tennessee

When: February 23–25, 2027

Time: 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. each day

Program Length: 24 hours

Attire: Casual or business casual

Your Registration Includes

  • Full 24-hour facilitated Dare to Lead™ experience

  • Updated Dare to Lead™ workbook and program materials

  • Facilitation by a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator

  • Dare to Lead™ Trained certificate upon successful completion of the full program

  • Eligibility to display the Dare to Lead™ Trained badge on LinkedIn

  • Workshop materials

  • Courage swag

  • Snacks

  • Continental breakfast

  • Catered lunch each day

Who Should Attend?

Dare to Lead™ is designed for people who want to strengthen how they lead themselves and others.

Participants may include:

  • Executives and senior leaders

  • Directors and managers

  • Front-line supervisors

  • Board members

  • Entrepreneurs and business owners

  • Engineers and technical leaders

  • Operations leaders

  • Skilled trades professionals

  • Union leaders and stewards

  • Human Resources professionals

  • Trainers and facilitators

  • Mental health and wellness practitioners

  • Public-service leaders

  • First responders

  • Nonprofit leaders

  • Individual contributors

  • Anyone who wants to develop greater courage in their leadership, work, or life

Participants from for-profit, nonprofit, government, public-safety, education, healthcare, manufacturing, operations, and community organizations are welcome.

You do not need to attend with an organizational team. Individual registrations are welcome.

About Your Facilitator

Sabrina L. Moon, MEng is the owner of the Problem Solving Institute and a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator.

Sabrina brings more than two decades of operations and leadership experience to her work with leaders and organizations. Her background includes operational leadership, executive coaching, leadership development, problem solving, organizational culture, and facilitation.

She is an ICF credentialed executive coach and works with leaders across industries including manufacturing, operations, public service, public safety, nonprofit organizations, and corporate environments.

Her facilitation style connects research and leadership concepts to the realities of leading people through complexity, accountability, conflict, change, and uncertainty.

Learn more about Sabrina and the Problem Solving Institute at:

https://problemsi.com/about-sabrina

About Dare to Lead™ Certification

Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators are independent professionals who have been trained and certified to facilitate the Dare to Lead™ courage-building curriculum based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown.

Participants who successfully complete the full Dare to Lead™ program with a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator become Dare to Lead™ Trained and are eligible to display the Dare to Lead™ Trained badge on LinkedIn.

Becoming Dare to Lead™ Trained does not certify an individual to facilitate or teach the Dare to Lead™ curriculum. It does provide participants with tools, language, and practices they can integrate into their own leadership, teams, meetings, relationships, and organizational culture.

Dr. Brené Brown will not be facilitating this event.

Additional information about Dare to Lead™ is available through Brené Brown and the Dare to Lead program.

https://brenebrown.com/hubs/dare-to-lead/

Join Us in Chattanooga

Three days.

Twenty-four hours.

A room of people willing to examine how they lead when things become uncertain, uncomfortable, or hard.

If you are ready to strengthen your courage, deepen trust, navigate difficult conversations more effectively, and lead with greater intention, we invite you to join us in Chattanooga.

February 23–25, 2027 | Chattanooga, Tennessee

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