Courage America: Reinventing Corporate Culture to Value Brave Action over Business As Usual
May 21, 2024
When so much of our organizational focus is locked on hitting on quarterly goals and keeping up with unpredictable technological change, playing it safe feels right. Rather than dive headlong into an uncertain future or challenge our assumptions about how we serve our customers, “business as usual” avoids risk. But what if it was bold action that was most likely to achieve our goals? Courage catalyst Ryan Berman joins us this week to share how leaders can release themselves from feeling stuck, scared, stale or safe, in favor of bravery.
Ryan Berman is a keynote speaker, author, and instigator of the Corporate Courage movement. He has worked with countless C-suite leaders from global organizations to celebrate and catalyze courageous action. For his book and podcast, Ryan has interviewed hundreds of “brave, bullish, and brainiac” public figures and leaders. Through this process, he has developed an acute and impactful definition of courageous action that he in turn inspires audiences with every day.
Join us as we discuss:
- How we can bring our true, whole personalities to work, and why doing so is critical in courageous workplaces
- Why corporate values have been rendered nearly obsolete, and how we can return power to them
- A practical definition of “courage,” and how we can discover it in our work and lives
- How positioning an organization’s services can make a massive difference in talent recruitment
- Experimental Task Forces and the potential impact of exploring new business and learning directions
- Ryan’s desire to rebrand corporate America as “Courage America,” and your brain as a reverse onion
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