- Partners with leaders of organizations to increase engagement and innovation by creating a culture of courage where employees have the support to speak up
- Shares a Courage-Ready framework — built from a decade of courage research, award-winning leadership at Chipotle, and insights from solo global travel — to equip employees with practical tools to speak up, step up and show up fully at
- work
- Offers a fun, accessible entry point into the conversation on courage with her inspirational journal, A Cool Girl’s Guide To Courage
- Brings command, relatability and humor to the stage and screen
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About Candace Doby
Download ProfileCandace 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.
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Candace Doby: Be Courageous. Not Fearless.
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Speech Topics
Download TopicsLearn 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.
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.
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