April 2026 Dare to Lead™ in Astoria, Oregon

This workshop is a transformative experience designed to equip you to become a courageous and effective leader in both your personal and professional life.

Where and how do you want to be braver?

Brené Brown, Ph.D., defines a leader as “anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.” We all have the potential to lead courageously in our families, schools, organizations, businesses, and communities. Dare to Lead ™ supports you in developing the skills and qualities essential for growing and thriving in today's world.

About The Dare To Lead™ Program

Join this interactive, research-based courage-building workshop designed by researcher and thought-leader, Dr. Brené Brown. This Dare to Lead™ program focuses on how we can be brave leaders and individuals who create courageous cultures. Leaders who know how to skillfully have hard conversations, take proactive risks that lead to innovation, reset quickly after challenges and setbacks, hold themselves and others accountable, lead with empathy and connection, and give and receive feedback - especially when it's tough.

The most significant finding from Brené’s latest research is that courage is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, measurable, and observable. The Dare to Lead™ program focuses on developing these courage-building skills through workshops, trainings, and coaching to help individuals, teams, and organizations move from armored leadership to daring leadership.

Skill Set 1: Rumbling with Vulnerability - Facing risk, uncertainty, and emotional exposure with courage and clarity.

Skill Set 2: Living into Our Values - Identifying, operationalizing, and practicing the beliefs that you hold most important.

Skill Set 3: BRAVING Trust - Creating or deepening connections in relationships and teams based on the seven elements of trust.

Skill Set 4: Learning to Rise - Learning and growing from the failures, setbacks, and disappointments that are inevitable when we are brave with our lives.

What to Expect

This in person workshop is designed as a facilitated leadership intensive offering meaningful learning opportunities and intentional time to connect with the material and with fellow participants. Individuals who complete this full 24-hour Dare to Lead™ program will receive a certificate of completion and the Dare to Lead™ Trained badge for LinkedIn.

Together, we will explore and practice the four empirically based, teachable, measurable, and observable skill sets of courage. You will increase your ability to cultivate relational vulnerability, lead skillfully and in alignment with your values, better understand the elements of trust, and rise from struggle and difficulties. The experiential learning and self-reflection exercises will tap into your authenticity and inner wisdom while developing your courage and grounded confidence as a leader - and person.

When:

• Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 9 am - 4:00 pm (Pacific)
• Thursday, April 30, 2026, 9 am - 4:00 pm (Pacific)
• Friday, May 1st, 2026, 9 am - 3:00 pm (Pacific)

Where: We will meet in the Barbey Center at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon. For more information on beautiful Astoria, Oregon, visit the Oregon Coast Visitor's Association: https://visittheoregoncoast.com/cities/astoria/

Agenda: Attendees will receive an email with details, pre-work, and logistics after registration and leading up to the workshop.

Bonus Follow-up Integration Coaching: Virtual availability in May 2025 (optional).

Investment: Individual registration is available at two investment levels. Group pricing is also available for three or more participants from the same organization. Feel free to reach out for more information - [email protected].

Registration Deadline: April 20, 2026.

Cancellation or Refunds: Refunds are available up to 3 weeks before the event (April 8, 2026). Eventbrite fees are non-refundable. You can also transfer your paid registration to another participant by emailing the organizer at [email protected]. In the event of unforeseen changes or circumstances impacting the delivery of this program, the organizer will inform you of your rescheduling, transfer, or refund options as soon as possible.

What is Included in thisIn-Person Leadership Experience:

• Three days of interactive learning sessions combined with independent reflection (24 hours total) facilitated by Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator (CDTLF), Angela Lehr, Ed.D.

• Dare to Lead™ Workbook

• Dare to Lead™ Trained Certificate

• Dare to Lead™ Trained badge to add your LinkedIn profile

• Individual 30-minute virtual pre-training preparation meeting

• The bonus option of a post-workshop 30-minute individual integration coaching session with your facilitator (virtual)

• Documentation for reimbursement, professional development approval, or CEUs available by request. Dare to Lead™ leadership competencies often qualify (CME, CNE, PMP, ICF, BCC, SHRM). Check with your employer, funder, or accrediting bodies to see if this applies.

About your Certified Facilitator

Dr. Angela Lehr is a leadership facilitator, consultant, transformational coach, educator, entrepreneur, and licensed counselor/clinical supervisor in Oregon and Montana. Her personal and professional guiding values are connection and authenticity, weaving together wholehearted leadership, relational generosity, and humanistic mindfulness.

Angela integrates a holistic perspective into her work with others as a Certified Dare to Lead ™ Facilitator (CDTLF) trained by Dr. Brené Brown in June 2019. Although Angela coaches and works with individuals and groups across many sectors, her specialty within the Dare to Lead ™ facilitator community is as a Courage Catalyst supporting educators and non-profit organizations wanting to cultivate braver and more connecting communities and work cultures.

Angela promotes a Humanistic Leadership perspective and is a specialist in the areas of transformational learning, human development, Interpersonal neurobiology, trauma, grief, transitions, relational connection, systemic change processes, well-being, and self-care. She is a published social science writer and researcher focused on humanistic leadership, creating cultures of care in organizations, fostering vital communities of practice, and leading and living authentically in the post-Covid world.

Angela deeply values the resilience of the human spirit and the power of courageous leadership!

More About Brené Brown, Ph.D.

Brené is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and most recently completed a seven-year study on courageous leadership. She is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and Dare to Lead, which also debuted at #1 on The Wall Street Journal and Publisher’s Weekly lists.

More information on Dr. Brené Brown and this program is available at daretolead.brenebrown.com

*Note - Only Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators (CDTLF) are approved to facilitate this workshop at the permission of Dr. Brené Brown, Better Up, and BBEARG (Brené Brown Education and Research Group). Brené Brown will not be facilitating this workshop. Only certified facilitators are authorized to issue "Dare to Lead™ Trained" certificates and the "Dare to Lead™ Trained" badge for LinkedIn to individuals upon successful completion of the full 24-hour training.

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