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, Culture Immersions, and Leadership Certifications.
our clients lead
YOU CAN AUTOMATE PROCESSES, NOT HUMANS
Culture doesn’t scale like systems
that’s what brave was built to solve
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™.
I know I speak for the entire team when I say 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
THE HUMAN OPERATING SYSTEM THAT SCALES
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.
BRAVE created an immediate 20-30% increase in productivity, with more to come. It will help us avoid problems or resolve them faster.”
“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…
creative foods co. / burger king
Jay DellaMonica., CEO, New York
brave helps fast growing companies scale human potential through
Workshops
A catalytic reset for fast-moving teams who need to communicate at the speed of growth. A 2-hour or half-day experience that gives your people the operating system that turns connection into performance that they wish they’d learned years ago.
what you get:
✓ Choose from a range of topics that engage a broad team around the fundamentals of how to have conversations that drive results.
✓ Create AHA moments that shift perspectives, drive immediate action and lay the foundation to build greater psychological safety.
✓ Equip your team with tangible tools to implement ASAP and foster trust, accountability and faster decision making.
IMMERSIONS
OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAM: Learn the BRAVE® language and practice it until it becomes automatic. Permanently upgrade how you lead, make decisions, and navigate hard conversations. Collapse time between where you are and the results you want to achieve.
✓ 3-6 month certification program that takes an intimate group of leaders through three phases of fully supported transformation: Identify, Immerse, Integrate.
✓ Participants receive group training, one-on-one mentorship and accountability in learning, practicing and modeling The BRAVE Framework®.
✓ Content customized specifically to serve and elevate the particular participants and the dynamics of the group itself.
what you get:
For leadership teams who want to create a full high performance culture flywheel, with a fractional Chief Culture Engineer and thought partner alongside you to create a culture that scales as fast as business and a system that turns connection into performance.
crossing the culture chasm
what You get:
✓ Ongoing, custom programming that creates a “new operating system” for culture that your company installs once—and benefits from forever.
✓ A thought partner to assist leadership in managing one of the most pivotal times in an organization’s lifecycle - when culture eats strategy for breakfast.
✓ Full BRAVE certification, ongoing onboarding, developing leaders and advisory support for increased productivity, performance, morale and retention.
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 course is for individual leaders who want to deep dive into the content that made Elisabeth and BRAVE top rated leadership instructors with Simon Sinek’s Optimism Company. It sold out every time it ran, and now, we’ve created a version that you can take on your own time! While its on a smaller scale than our corporate work, we constantly hear: “it’s life-changing!”
