building Culture that Scales
High-growth startups win when culture moves as fast as code. Don’t just scale your systems. Scale what made you special— your culture. Introducing BRAVE® the only operating system that scales trust, innovation and your human potential at the speed of business.
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products and systems scale fast. people don’t.
You have what big companies wish for…
The next big idea
A mission that matters
Speed of innovation
A team giving it everything
A glimpse of what’s possible if you can 10x
But when you start moving fast, culture becomes the elephant in the room. Something feels… “off.”
If you ignore this or assume, “they’ll figure it out” — let me save you the trouble, they won’t.
This is the road to the Culture Cliff™.
Speed without cohesion will create chaos
Misalignment can costs you decisions, momentum, resources you can’t afford to waste.
You won’t win acting like the big guys, throwing money at that fancy keynote speaker or enneagram workshop. That stuff works… for 48 hours.
YOU WILL WIN BY BECOMING THE TEAM THAT MOVES FASTER, TOGETHER, BY DOUBLING DOWN ON WHAT MADE YOU SPECIAL IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOUR CULTURE.
culture isn’t a training, It’s in every conversation
CULTURE DOESN’T FOLLOW HIGH PERFORMANCE, IT’S THE FOUNDATION OF IT.
For startups, your culture is your edge. But culture isn’t the values written on a wall, it’s the system that allows you to nurture your greatest asset, your people.
So, if you want your team to move as fast as your growth curve, you need to upgrade the operating system they run on: LANGUAGE.
You need a shared language, a reliable system proven to:
Build trust and connection—on purpose
Speed up decision making and expand innovation
Turn hard conversations into momentum
Transform underperformance while increasing retention
Scale culture and high performance with every interaction
Your edge isn’t just your big idea. it’s in the conversations that become your culture. train that.
brave
INTRODUCING THE UPGRADE TO YOUR HUMAN OPERATING SYSTEM
A repeatable framework built for high-growth. Used by top-performing startups. Designed to make your culture your competitive advantage. The BRAVE Framework® is your new language of high performance leadership.
It powers:
Fast decisions
Aligned action
Unshakable teams
It helps leaders, teams and entire organizations apply the science and principles behind the language of high performance leadership to 10x their impact, manage chaos and stress, drive business results, unlock potential in others and build teams that win.
YOUR HUMAN OPERATING SYSTEM
INTRODUCING
A communication framework built for high-growth. Used by top-performing startups. Designed to make your culture your competitive advantage. The BRAVE Framework® is your new language of high performance leadership. It powers:
Fast decisions
Aligned action
Unshakable teams
It helps leaders, teams and entire organizations apply the science and principles behind the language of high performance leadership to 10x their impact, manage chaos and stress, drive business results, unlock potential in others and build teams that win.
“Elisabeth is consistently one of our most highly sought after instructors…
Her engaging teaching style and BRAVE Framework® content is just what leadership teams need to feel confident in their abilities to build teams and cultures that win, no matter how challenging the environment.”
Sharin MacPherson, Head of Experiences
Simon Sinek’s the optimism company
“Elisabeth has a way of simplifying information in a very relatable way… I had high expectations, but ELISABETH and brave way over-exceeded those expectations…
A common denominator that I find with my EOS clients is they avoid tough & difficult conversations. When I first spoke with Elisabeth, I knew she had a unique ability to communicate well… In our session, not only did The BRAVE Framework® and delivery from Elisabeth resonate, but she was able to engage 120 people via Zoom to make for a truly impactful experience…”
Stu Wolff, Certified EOS® Implementer, Wolff Leadership LLC
eos, entrepreneur operating system
“If the future of leadership had a voice, it would be BRAVE.”
Brent Weiss, Co-Founder
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#46 Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies, 2022
OUR CLIENTS LEAD OVER 400 GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS
brave programs are for leaders and teams at scaling companies.
Whether your goal is to elevate yourself and your skills or to find a program to reliably take your team to the next level, fast - you’re in the right place. Whether you are:
- a senior leader at a fast growing company
- someone who leads others (or aspires to) in any capacity, personally or professionally
- a helping professional (someone whose vocation is to serve, support and advocate)
- a partner, parent, colleague, friend, sibling, part of a community
brave helps leaders like you 10x your impact through
ORGANIZATIONS DON’T CHANGE. PEOPLE DO.
brave workshops, immersions and culture programs are ideal for fast-growing teams navigating transitions
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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 helps leaders like you 10x your impact through
Workshops
BRAVE® packed into a high-energy, interactive 90-120 minute experience where leaders are made, bonds are forged and potential is unleashed. Packed with AHA moments and practical tools, workshops empower your team and light a spark that fuels ongoing growth and success.
what you get:
✓ Engagement: Choose from a range of topics that ignite a broad team around learning the fundamentals of The BRAVE Framework®
✓ AHA moments: Create an experience that shifts perspectives, drives immediate action and lays the foundation to build greater psychological safety.
✓ Tangible Tools: Equip your team with practical strategies to implement right away to foster trust, collaboration, innovation and faster decision making.
Immersions
OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAM: The best way to become fluent in a language is to immerse yourself in it. Immersions are structured specifically to optimize the speed at which your team can learn, practice and integrate the language of high performance leadership into their day-to-day.
✓ 6 month immersion that takes an intimate group of up to 10 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:
After nearly 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 too often, culture unintentionally falls off a cliff. BRAVE® helps organizations bridge the gap we call - The Culture Chasm.
crossing the culture chasm
what You get:
✓ Ongoing, custom programming to ensure that leaders are fully equipped with the tools and skills to thrive through high-growth spurts and usher their team across the chasm.
✓ 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.
✓ Increased productivity, performance, morale and retention.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS AND TEAM MEMBERS
BRAVE CERTIFICATION
You’re busy, but leaders like you don’t give yourself excuses. This certification was created specifically for high achievers with packed schedules. It lets you dive into BRAVE® and learn the language of high performance leadership at your own pace with live support and workshops throughout. Divided into bite-sized lessons and impactful exercises, you can devote 1% of your day (~14 minutes) to up-leveling.
RESULTS We’ve seen lives transform, corporate cultures shift, team members unlocked, marriages saved, relationships rebuilt, bullied children empowered…
This group is exactly what I need to be the best version of me possible.”
“Thank you for providing a space to explore and process real life challenges with BRAVE.
Being on the call live was very helpful today in confirming why I decided to join the group and your thoughts were very validating for me…
FOR FAST GROWING TEAMS AND COMPANIES
The best way to integrate learnings and become fluent in the language of high performance leadership is to practice alongside others on the same journey. Research says that having accountability and a forum to practice and reflect significantly impacts our ability to turn knowledge into mastery. Community options include live, virtual sessions, like:
Implementation Labs (Q&A with Elisabeth to workshop real life scenarios get mentored in applying BRAVE in real life).
BRAVE Leadership Forums (Elisabeth applies The BRAVE Framework® to work challenges and areas where leaders often struggle). Bonus, you’ll have the opportunity to invite colleagues to certain forums as well!
WORKSHOPS
FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND EXECUTIVE TEAM
IMMERSION PROGRAM
You asked, we answered! Learning and applying The BRAVE Framework® is a transferrable skill that amplifies our professional impact and personal fulfillment. We wanted our BRAVE leaders get recognized for the work they put in, so… we will launch a program that will not only certify you as a BRAVE Ambassador for your organization, but will also earn you Continuing Education credits for a host of designations!
Hi! I’m elisabeth…
SINCE I WAS A KID, I’VE BEEN ENDLESSLY FASCINATED WITH THE MINDSET, SKILLS AND NEUROBIOLOGY THAT SET LEADERS APART. DORKY, RIGHT?
This infinitely curious, coffee-loving, Brooklyn-native was running around around handing out business cards at the age of (thanks, Dad). Fast forward…
I created The BRAVE Framework® because I needed it. That’s a story for another day, but let’s just say, I needed a “how to guide” for some really high stakes conversations…
I tested concepts for a while, researching the ability of conversation to change our biological state and unlock human potential. Not long after BRAVE® was officially born, I joined forces with Simon Sinek and quickly became one of his top leadership instructors. The need to share this work with the world, to empower mission driven founders and leaders with the tools they need to build cultures that scale became a my mission.
I’ve spent over 14,000 hours teaching The BRAVE Framework® to leaders at over 500 companies across the globe and am a trusted Advisor to some of the nation’s fastest growing companies.
I’ve given 2 TEDx talks, spoken at the United Nations, in front of Congress and on stages from NYC to Johannesburg, South Africa to Omaha, Nebraska. And you might recognize my face from a Netflix documentary called “Coffee For All” that features and my first company, Caffè Unimatic…
“BRAVE is unmatched…
Other programs always sound like a good idea, but they're too boring, long and contrived - and don’t move the needle. There was always a roadmap for our sessions, but nothing was off limits, so when people needed advice, Elisabeth was ready to listen and guide a discussion to help.
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Paige R., Director, New York
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what clients are saying
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"“Elisabeth was a breath of fresh air and quite a powerful influence on how we have conversations… Thank you for helping us learn how to have difficult conversations in a more effective way."
Laurie Payton
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“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”
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“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”
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“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”
Keith Finley
“Elisabeth was a breath of fresh air and quite a powerful influence on how we have conversations…
We all benefited so much from her powerful facilitation of The BRAVE Framework®. Thank you for helping us learn how to have difficult conversations in a more effective way at work and at home and be more brave, especially during this particular moment in history!”
Stevie Rabinowitz, Partner, Learning and Development, NYC