Candace Doby equips leaders at every level with tools of courageous communication that foster courageous leadership and fuel organizational growth.

Unlike other leadership development experts, she fuses storytelling, research and pop culture to deliver refreshingly relatable, immediately actionable, and fiercely empowering programs that position courage as a practical tool for professional impact.

Participants walk away with concrete, high-impact communication strategies to own their brilliance at work and model courageous leadership, leading to higher engagement and accelerated organizational growth.

Candace Doby’s Speech Topics:

Courage-Ready Culture™:

How to get and keep teams engaged for good Learn and apply the real-world skills that create an empowered workplace culture, where everyone is equipped and supported to speak up, show up and step up with courage.

This program is perfect for:

• Organizations looking to increase innovation by cultivating an environment where risk-taking is routine.

• Managers who want to build teams where everyone can contribute and perform to their potential.

• Organizations looking to drive long-term employee engagement and productivity

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Follow the courage process employees undergo to prepare themselves to own their brilliance at work. • Identify key opportunities within that process to support their teams in taking worthwhile risks.

• Apply key strategies to those opportunities that, when repeated, create a culture where employees are able to courageously speak up, step up and show up.

Courage at Work: How to take more risks and own your brilliance

An organization’s ability to reach its highest level of excellence comes down to one thing: its people — courageously owning their brilliance, in both typical and transitional times. In this leadership development presentation, participants learn a process for how to manage fear, activate personal courage and take worthwhile risks — so they can unleash their potential and make a greater impact on their organization.

This program is perfect for:

• Organizations that want to develop courageous leaders who can navigate change and challenges and lead the brand forward.

• Organizations looking to boost employee satisfaction by helping employees own and demonstrate their unique talents and skills.

• Organizations eager to leverage diverse, creative thinking by unlocking the potential of its employees, particularly young professionals.

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify three key components in the development of courage that will eliminate the frustrating feeling of not knowing where to start when facing a new challenge

• Convert those components into a process that prepares them to evaluate risks from insight, instead of insecurity

• Leverage that process when opportunities arise for them to step outside of their comfort zone and demonstrate their brilliance

Courage is essential at every level of leadership, making Candace’s programs relevant across industries. Traction is especially strong in:

• Advertising, Marketing & Communications (agencies, in-house, internal departments)

• Education (Higher ed, associations)

• Food & Beverage (CPG, restaurants, hospitality)

• Women’s leadership

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Bio:

Candace Doby, founder of The Can-Do Company, is a leadership communication strategist, author of A Cool Girl’s Guide To Courage, professional speaker and courage coach. She partners with organizations to create a culture of courage where employees spend less time and energy censoring and hiding themselves and more time performing at their highest potential. Her work on courageous communication and leadership has been featured on MSNBC, NPR, TEDx and more.

Candace combines a decade of research on courage with her experiences traveling the world solo and a 16-year, award-winning marketing career — much of which was spent leading teams at Chipotle. This unique combination equips her with the actionable strategies she has shared with leaders across the globe to help them and their teams courageously speak up, step up and show up at work. She is the creator of The Courage Hotline podcast, host of The Own Your Brilliance retreat and owner of Pep Talker greeting cards, available online and in select stores.

Candace holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communications and a master’s degree in Technology and Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also ran track.