Dare to Lead
Cultivating Courage-Consciousness™
Tovi is a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator
trained personally by Brené Brown in her
first cohort March 2019
The Dare to Lead: Leadership Intensive Experience delivers the empirically-based Dare to Lead™ program with a lens of belonging. We must embrace courage as a part of our work in order to be more impactful and effective in getting the outcomes we want for our schools and organizations. Before we can tackle systems, we must first look inward, to our internal conditioning because we are the organization.
Courage is the cure!
In the past, jobs were about muscles, now they're about brains, but in the future they’ll be about the heart.
Minouche Shafik,
London School of Economics
The Future is NOW.
Key Messages
What courage looks like and is.
What courageous leadership is and why it matters.
Transforming school culture with brave leaders.
The four skill sets of courage and connecting to courageous leadership
The pre-work and inner-work in order to do the outer work
more effictively.
How does Dare to Lead™ help me or my organization?
The Dare to Lead™ leadership development program is a skills-based, action-oriented program/playbook that develops leaders in courage-building skills. Imagine a workplace where leaders can have hard, respectful conversations, build trust through genuine connection, and tend to individuals' fears and feelings.
Dare to Lead™ teaches leaders how to lead with whole hearts and manage uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. Who we are is how we lead.
What are The 4 Skills of Courage?
Rumbling with Vulnerability
This means it's time to show up and have a real conversation, even if it's messy. Lean into and stick with the tough conversations. To do this, you need courage, and there is no courage without vulnerability.
Living Into Your Values
This means you know your values, and we not only profess them, but we practice them. It's important to be clear about the things we find important and make sure our behaviors align.
BRAVING Trust
Trust is a learned skill, and this training uses the seven essential elements: Boundaries, Reliability, Accountability, Vault, Integrity, Non-judgment, and Generosity, aka B.R.A.V.I.N.G.
Learning to Rise
This means that, as leaders, we need to recognize that we are also human. When we take risks, we occasionally mess up. Resilience is critical to daring leadership. So, dust off and go again!
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Dare to Lead Intensives!
Register for Oct 16 & 17, 2026
Dare to Lead Training
in Natomas, CA
THE IN-PERSON INTENSIVE EXPERIENCE
This courageous leadership training will change your life and your leadership. You will walk away with a greater understanding of yourself, and the tools you need to live out your personal call to courage. This experience provides a safe environment for learning and allows you to build meaningful relationships with others that last well beyond the training.
The Dare to Lead™ program is designed for individuals and teams who are ready to embrace brave leadership, shed their armor, and show up with whole hearts in their work and life. The research says, "To scale daring leadership and build courage in teams and organizations, we must cultivate a culture in which brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts are the expectation, and armor is not necessary or rewarded."
In addition to receiving a certificate of completion, individuals who complete the program may put the Dare to Lead™ Trained badge on their LinkedIn account.
Want to share the Dare to Lead™ flyer? Download it here.
Tovi was effortless, graceful, honest, vulnerable, and full of knowledge. Not only did I take away tools for my learning and role, but also priceless gifts for myself.
Just what I needed: affirmations of beliefs, expansion of theory & ideas, exploration of fears, hopes, trauma, joy in a brace space. Nutrition for the head, heart, body, and spirit. Tovi is phenomenal.
The Dare to Lead™ workshop was transformational! Tovi’s workshop was thoughtful, intentional, and full of opportunities to self reflect. I loved every minute of my 3 days!
This was one of the best trainings I’ve ever participated in. Not only did I learn more about myself as a person, I learned more about others and how to come from a place of empathy and not shame.
Tovi brought us to kindness, authenticity, and knowledge. She challenged my thoughts while providing me room to grow. I look forward to the next opportunity to learn from this amazing leader!
Engaging and inspiring session. Thank you for the opportunity to go on this journey and leading me through with an expert lens.
I highly recommend the Dare to Lead™ course offered by Tovi C. Scruggs. Never have I before experienced such a transformational curriculum. Their mastery of the content on courageous leadership, expert facilitation, and individualized coaching approaches will forever change your outlook on leadership and give you the tools to embody your aspirations. The course goes beyond concepts to produce integrated outcomes that drive sustainable leadership changes. In addition, you will experience this transformation in a cohort of world-class educators and nonprofit leaders. This course holds the key to making our academic institutions and mission-based organizations more courageous and equitable.
- Caroline Simard
PhD, Managing Director, Stanford VMware Women Leadership Innovation Lab
Dare to Lead
Investment: $1440
Teams of 4 or more: $1240 (per team member)
Registration closes October 9th!
Invoices accepted: Email weconnect@ticiess.com
Only 40 spots available!
Location: Natomas Charter School - PACT Academy, Sacramento, CA
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