culture isn’t a training, it’s in every conversation
Speed is easy. Culture at speed is not. BRAVE® is the secret weapon behind the fastest-moving, highest-performing teams—building cultures that win through hyper-growth and constant change.
EXPLORE BRAVE® WORKSHOPS, CERTIFICATIONS AND ONGOING ADVISORY.
our clients lead
YOU CAN AUTOMATE PROCESSES, NOT HUMANS
Culture doesn’t scale like systems
The smallest unit of culture is a conversation. Each one builds or destroys trust, surfaces truth or buries it, creates ownership or dependency, regulates pressure or amplifies it.
ESPECIALLY DURING PERIODS OF HYPER-GROWTH AND CHANGE, CULTURE ISN’T A TRAINING, IT’S IN EVERY CONVERSATION.
When growing fast, you need a structure for communicating under pressure so feedback lands, silos dissolve, accountability increases, decisions speed up, alignment multiplies, and performance accelerates.
In an AI world, this is the one skill that separates companies that keep pace from those that fall off the Culture Cliff™.
that’s what brave was built to solve
we are more powerful because of BRAVE.
I have never seen a more operable team, especially when considering the stresses we put them beneath!
Haddy (the world’s largest 3d printing microfactory)
John “Jay” Rodgers Jr., CEO & Co-Founder
SCALE YOUR HUMAN POTENTIAL AT THE (NEW) SPEED OF BUSINESS
THE BRAVE FRAMEWORK
After a decade of working with leaders through periods of high growth and transition, we saw a trend: as growth accelerates and your org chart expands, communication contracts. Progress is inevitably slowed by burnout, bottleneck and bureaucracy and culture falls off a cliff.
BRAVE® helps organizations bridge the gap we call - The Culture Chasm. BRAVE® isn’t a script, a one-off workshop, an assessment or personality type. It’s the language of high performance leadership and it’s built on the science of the human brain under stress.
The BRAVE Framework® is a proven, step-by-step, neuroscience-backed tool that gives teams in hyper growth a shared language to:
regulate under pressure
unlock others when they’re defensive or shut down
surface issues early
inspire ownership without micromanaging
scale trust, clarity, and accountability through conversation
brave gives you a way to leverage every conversation to scale human potential at the speed of business
“The ROI of BRAVE is endless. These are the kinds of leadership trainings that companies should really be spending money on.”
MEDICAL SOLUTIONS, 17x Inc 5000 list awardee
Travis P., Director, Omaha, Nebraska
ORGANIZATIONS DON’T CHANGE. PEOPLE DO.
brave PROGRAMS are ideal for teams navigating fast growth and constant change
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When growth and scale is the focus, no matter how well meaning leadership is, culture shifts. Doing more, faster, with less recognition and support impacts your people.
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Raising money is stressful. Having a framework to align ideas amidst tough conversations and the skillset to identify and diffuse stress is a non-negotiable.
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Whether hiring or right sizing, even great cultures fall victim to fluctuations that happen too fast, too slow or without the right amount of transparency.
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When two cultures become one, there is a period of co-creating a new identify. It’s never one or the other, when intentional the new culture will unify, align and inspire.
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Maybe you’re promoting emerging leaders, maybe you’re hiring from the outside, but no matter where they’re rising from, they need a common language.
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Any sort of change requires a relearning. Culture follows structure so, having a universal framework for how to interact will create familiarity amidst the newness.
“I've taken so many leadership classes in the past year and Elisabeth clearly stands out among a very talented field. BRAVE hit it right on the head. All too often I and my team avoid having the difficult conversations and as a result problems grow and trust is not built. Thanks to Elisabeth’s enlightening, we have included having BRAVE conversations as part of our goals this year through out our entire team and can already say that…
BRAVE created an immediate 20-30% increase in productivity, with more to come. now we avoid problems or resolve them faster.”
creative foods co. / burger king
Jay DellaMonica., CEO, New York
brave helps fast growing companies scale human potential through
Workshops
Gather and engage your people around the proven system that turns connection into performance, builds greater psychological safety and drives accountability, alignment and immediate action.
what you get:
✓ Choose from a range of topics around the fundamentals of how to have conversations that drive results.
✓ A 2-hour / half day experience + a “Leader’s Lab” one week later to tackle questions that arise as participants apply the material (increasing retention, real world application and skill use in context up to 100%+)
✓ Equip your team with AHA moments that shift perspectives and tangible tools to implement immediately to foster trust, accountability and faster decision making.
GREAT FOR: Broad cross-org impact, aligning teams, installing a shared language, boosting morale, kicking off a quarter or project.
BOOTCAMP
Permanently upgrade how you lead, make decisions, and navigate hard conversations by learning to speak a shared language that creates psychologicial safety inside our HOW TO TALK TO HUMANS BOOTCAMP.
what you get:
✓ Give your leaders the human skills to accelerate trust, accountability, confidence, self awareness, speed in identifying issues and making decisions.
✓ Over three months, participants are immersed in learning, practicing and modeling each step of BRAVE’s five observable, coachable skills that are proven to get the best out of people.
✓ A hybrid of self-paced content, live labs for workshopping and coaching to apply theories to real life situations, this program is created with busy leaders in mind, making the most of every moment.
GREAT FOR: Elevating leadership teams’ ability to move fast and get the best out of their teams, developing rising and next-gen leaders, aligning teams who need to accomplish big goals.
IMMERSIONS
For companies who are growing rapidly and want to create a flywheel for sustainable high performance with a Fractional Chief Culture Engineer and thought partner alongside you.
what You get:
✓ Customized six month program that arms your leaders/team with the human skills that turn connection into performance at the highest level.
✓ Transform leaders at multiple levels of the organization with varying degrees of development inside our customized accelerator program.
✓ Designed around your organizations needs and realities, we always pair cognitive learning with implementation cycles so skill-building isn’t left to chance and the tools learned actually make their way into your leaders’ toolbox.
GREAT FOR: Executive and leadership teams at the helm of hyper growth companies, startups who are about to enter the scaling phase and care about their people, fast moving teams who need to reach new heights.
ONGOING ADVISORY
Too often we see companies wait to address cultural issues because they’re about to hire or promote. We wanted to change this tendency and ensure that your investment in Bootcamp or an Immersion is not just protected, but multiplies in value.
As you hire, promote, and scale, your people keep learning the same language, applying the same tools, and leading with the same standards. Your culture grows stronger as your company grows bigger and complexity increases — not by accident, by design.
what you get:
✓ # Seats in quarterly Bootcamps and Leadership Immersions for new hires, rising leaders, lateral or external hires
✓ # Seats in Alumni Insider Labs for real-time application, challenge-solving and mentorship and # topical workshops to multiply the use cases of BRAVE® capabilities
✓ Direct access to Elisabeth as a strategic thought partner and Fractional Chief Culture Engineer
I solely partner with companies whose mission I genuinely believe in and leaders who care about performance and people — and who refuse to treat them as mutually exclusive. I only take on a handful of teams every year, because this work requires depth and my full attention. Plus, I’m allergic to surface-level trainings and letting you use budget on things that won’t create deep and lasting change. [Did you know that 3/4 of culture programs have 0% impact after one year?]
At work, I spend my days helping leaders identify and quiet the internal noise and self-doubt that shape how they and their teams show up, drive results and make positive impact. At home, I’m raising a daughter whose inner voice is still forming. The irony isn’t lost on me. I am deeply devoted to both roles, so I build my life around one principle: what you model consistently is what grows — in people and in companies — so be intentional.
if you’re building something meaningful and want to take exceptional care of your people and culture as you grow, say hi — we’ll be a great fit!
A note about working together
AS SEEN IN
"Over the years, I’ve done a lot of leadership development programs, both personally and professionally. And I can easily say that…
I’ve seen faster growth with brave than all the others, combined.”
Citrin Cooperman
Erin O., Manager, New York
Not in charge of TRAINING at work, but want to uplevel?
Our signature program, HOW TO TALK TO HUMANS BOOTCAMP is for individual leaders who want to deep dive into the content that made Elisabeth a top rated leadership instructor with Simon Sinek’s Optimism Company. You get a BRAVE® Level 1 Certification and learn the language of high performance leadership.
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