A virtual development programme that builds courageous leadership, deepens human connection, and cultivates compassionate, high-performing cultures within organisations.
Over 4.5 months, your people grow in courage, connection and resilience, strengthening collaboration, retention and engagement across the business. Fully virtual, and designed to fit around the work.
Outcomes are drawn from participant surveys, measured against the behaviours the programme teaches.
90%
are now more likely to speak up in their organisations.
92%
are more likely to practise self-compassion.
76%
feel more engaged at work as a result of the programme.
61%
are now more likely to stay at their organisation.
Success stories
Courage, in the organisations we serve.
How leading organisations unlocked courage, collaboration and innovation to achieve extraordinary results.
Breaking silos to drive revenue growth
When Microsoft aimed to accelerate revenue growth within a key business unit, the path forward was clear: braver conversations and stronger collaboration. Leaders needed to foster trust, break down silos and build deeper, more meaningful relationships, with clients, resellers, and each other.
We have partnered with The Bravest Path for a number of years on cultural transformation and their work is world class. The impact their programmes have had on my organisation’s engagement, connection, and ability to have more difficult conversations together has consistently exceeded my expectations.
Senior Vice President, Consumer Sales & Marketing, Microsoft
Building trust to drive team innovation
When BP set out to strengthen collaboration within its operations team, leaders recognised the need for greater openness, psychological safety and shared trust. Through the programme, team members developed the skills and confidence to have braver conversations, share honestly, and support each other through change.
The level of engagement in the conversations in our team is different. I feel more comfortable and confident that I can share anything going on in this team. This programme has really accelerated the level of trust, we’re trying new things together!
Senior Operations Manager, BP
Public sector · Braver than Before®
Local council: building braver leaders to address a major workforce challenge
When this local council set out to strengthen leadership capability across its workforce, the context was stark: among the highest sickness absence rates in the region, a workforce strategy explicitly calling for “resilient leaders and managers who empower and support the workforce,” and a clear organisational target to improve attendance. The path forward needed leaders who could hold difficult conversations, model psychological safety, and build the inner resilience that sustainable change leadership demands.
The challenge
Employing more than 18,000 people, the council had identified mental health and musculoskeletal issues as the leading drivers of a sickness absence bill running into tens of millions of pounds a year. Its own workforce strategy named resilient, empowering leadership as a core priority: equipping managers to have the courageous conversations that stop small issues becoming long-term absence, building self-awareness and self-compassion in leaders who were themselves stretched and burnt out, and embedding behaviours such as speaking up, reflecting and supporting others, so they could outlast a single training intervention.
The solution
The Bravest Path delivered a cohort of 100 leaders through Braver than Before®, a 4.5-month, fully virtual courage-building programme built around six modules. Core modules built the courage to take smart risks, give clear and kind feedback, and meet challenge with resilience. Courage Circles gave leaders from different services small, confidential peer groups to unpick issues from emotions and gain outside perspective. Structured pre and post measurement tracked participants across five leadership domains, from baseline to completion.
The impact
80%
more likely to practise self-compassion
80%
more likely to speak up
76%
more productive
54%
more engaged at work
42%
more likely to stay
Leaders were also 72% more equipped to handle challenges and 82% ready to apply their learning: a direct line to the council’s retention and attendance priorities.
In their own words
I have grown so much these past 4.5 months. Thank you for the work you do. It has certainly been transformative for me.
Senior Practitioner
Massively helpful. I shared a very live issue, and my group was able to unpick the issue from my emotions. Hugely grateful to share a very sensitive issue in a confidential setting.
Team Manager
This programme has helped me see myself more clearly, not as someone who needs to remove all doubt, but as someone who can lead with courage alongside it.
Service Manager
My most valuable takeaway is learning to pause, quiet the inner critic, and choose values-led action instead of perfectionism.
Operations Manager
The learning held
Months later, an alumni follow-up confirmed the change had lasted: 83% of alumni were still applying the skills daily or weekly, 67% reported lasting changes now built into how they work, and 68% said the programme had changed how they collaborate with colleagues.
The programme
A 4.5-month, fully virtual courage-building programme.
Enhance retention
Keep your best people by helping them feel connected, valued and able to grow where they are.
Cultivate a speaking-up culture
Give teams the frameworks and confidence to raise issues, give feedback and challenge well.
Promote employee wellbeing
Build self-compassion and resilience so people can sustain performance under pressure.
What’s covered
Six courage-building modules.
Each module is a distinct, practised behaviour, learnable, observable in the work, and revisited in cohort and back at the desk.
01
The Courage to Connect
Deepening connection to ourselves and others by understanding the barriers that get in the way and clarifying what we stand for as leaders.
Build awareness of the personal and relational barriers to authentic leadership, articulate your values, and learn how vulnerability supports openness, trust and team innovation.
02
The Courage to Think Differently
Exploring how mindset shifts, vulnerability and releasing perfectionism enable smart risk-taking and innovation.
Reframe your inner critic into an inner mentor, identify the fears and myths around risk and emotional exposure, and let go of “not good enough” thinking.
03
The Courage to Challenge
Using the Brave Conversations framework to handle tough conversations with empathy and accountability.
Separate fact from story, use a simple proven structure to give kind and courageous feedback, and feel empowered to ask for what you need.
04
The Courage to Create
Understanding the conditions for innovation and how vulnerability supports experimentation and intelligent risks.
Recognise the levers that spark innovation, build adaptive thinking under pressure, and create a culture that welcomes creativity, collaboration and new ideas.
05
The Courage to Keep Going
Stepping into greater self-worth and confidence to lead with courage and sustain growth.
Share your leadership story through Courage Speak Easy, use accountability strategies to embed learning, and build cultures of appreciation and honest feedback.
06
The Courage to Rise
Deepening self-worth and confidence to step into the arena and show up courageously.
Courage Speak Easy, accountability strategies to sustain learning, and an Appreciation and Feedback learning journey.
Small-group coaching · three sessions
Courage Circles
Small-group coaching spaces where the learning becomes practice. In a safe, confidential setting, you bring real leadership challenges, receive coaching and gain fresh perspective, building the confidence to lead courageously in your everyday work.
What’s included
A complete 4.5-month programme.
30 hours CPDEquivalent to structured continuing professional development
15 hours live modulesSix interactive sessions streamed via Microsoft Teams
4.5 hours group coachingSmall-group sessions for deeper learning
10.5 hours reflective learningStructured self-paced exercises between modules
Recordings + materialsFull module recordings and downloadable resources
Downloadable workbookA comprehensive end-of-programme resource to keep
3 months extended accessOnline materials available after the final module
Community + alumni accessOngoing peer connection beyond the programme
Certificate of completionFormal recognition of 30 hours CPD
Alumni refresher sessionsPost-programme sessions to revisit tools and sustain momentum
Trusted by leading organisations
In their own words
Watch their story.
Lisa shares how Braver than Before® helped Fife Council build stronger, more connected leadership teams.
Building Stronger Teams
Lisa's Story: Building Stronger Teams
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