Dare to Lead™ 3-Day Workshop - First Responders Only

First responders carry weight that most people will never understand — split-second decisions, impossible situations, organizational cultures that can build you up or wear you down. You show up for everyone else. This workshop is designed for you to show up for yourself and your team.

Core Leadership Academy is proud to sponsor an exclusive three-day Dare to Lead™ workshop — open to first responders only.

Whether you’re in fire, law enforcement, EMS, emergency management, or dispatch, this is your space to build the leadership skills that matter most in high-stakes environments.

What makes this workshop unique: you won’t just be learning from a facilitator — you’ll be learning alongside and from first responders who have already completed Dare to Lead™ training and will be in the room helping to guide this experience. They’ve done this work. They understand your world.

Because bravery on the job starts with courage in the culture.

Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston and five-time New York Times best-selling author, spent years researching leadership and organizational cultures.

She interviewed 150 global C-suite level executives on the future of leadership, asking: “What, if anything, about the way people are leading today needs to change in order for leaders to be successful in a complex, rapidly changing environment?”

Brené wrote in her 2018 book Dare to Lead™, “There was one answer across the interviews: We need braver leaders and more courageous cultures.”

Based on her research, Brené developed Dare to Lead™ – an empirically based courage-building program. It’s a game-changer for leaders at all levels.

Dare to Lead™ includes facilitation, self-reflection, practical activities, dialogue, and short videos hosted by Brené on the four teachable, observable, and measurable courage skill sets:

1. Rumbling with Vulnerability: Facing risk, uncertainty, and emotional exposure with courage and clarity.
2. Living into our Values: Identifying, operationalizing, and practicing the beliefs that we hold most important.
3. BRAVING Trust: Creating or deepening connections in relationships and teams based on the seven elements of trust.
4. Learning to Rise: Learning and growing from the failures, setbacks, and disappointments that are inevitable when we are brave with our lives.

Daring Leaders are self-aware, know how to have hard conversations, hold themselves and others accountable, build trust, lead with empathy and connection, take smart risks that lead to innovation, reset quickly after disappointments and setbacks, and give and receive feedback – especially when it’s tough.

Join us to uncover YOUR call to courage!

Included in this 3-day Workshop: Updated Dare to Lead™ Workbook (includes new material and content from BBEARG), Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Dare to Lead™ Trained Certificate, Dare to Lead™ Trained LinkedIn Badge, courage swag and lunch.

Where: Electric Works - Fort Wayne, IN

When: September 23-25, 2026 8:30a-5:30p EDT (this meets 3 consecutive days)

Attire: Casual, Business Casual

Who should attend: All first responders including command staff and executive leadership

About the Facilitator(s): Sabrina L. Moon, MEng is the owner of the Problem Solving Institute and founder of Core Leadership Academy, a former industrial operations leader, facilitator and executive coach. She is one of Dr. Brené Brown's global Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators and enjoys helping individuals learn courageous leadership skills.

Mitch McKinney is an ctive-duty police officer with FWPD, academy instructor, and leadership trainer specializing in procedural justice, recruitment, and retention. Mitch and Sabrina co-founded Core Leadership Academy in 2025 to bring people together through leadership development.

More information about Mitch & Sabrina is here: https://www.coreleadershipacademy.com/about

THIS IS A SPONSORED WORKSHOP MADE AVAILABLE BY CORE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. WE ARE A 501(C)(3). YOU MUST BE A FIRST RESPONDER TO ATTEND. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL A REGISTRATION IF YOU CANNOT CONFIRM THAT YOU HAVE THIS TYPE OF ROLE.

Important:

Only Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitators are approved to facilitate this workshop at the permission of Dr. Brené Brown and BBEARG (Brené Brown Education and Research Group). Brené Brown will not be facilitating this workshop. Certified facilitators are authorized to issue "Dare to Lead™ Trained" certificates to individuals who successfully complete the full 24-hour training. In addition to receiving a certificate of completion, these individuals are allowed to put a "Dare to Lead™ Trained" badge on their LinkedIn account. While becoming Dare to Lead Trained doesn't certify you to facilitate this material as an instructor or host workshops, it does indicate that you can integrate your learnings into your organization's culture, meetings, and more. Further information is available at https://daretolead.brenebrown.com

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