Brené Brown Appointed as Executive Chair of New
Daring Leadership Institute Addressing Challenges Faced by
Organizations Across the Globe
Today BetterUp®, the human transformation company and inventor
of virtual coaching, announced a groundbreaking partnership with
Brené Brown, the globally renowned researcher and author. Together,
they will launch the Daring Leadership Institute, a
first-of-its-kind integration that amplifies Brené Brown's
empirically based, courage-building curriculum with BetterUp’s
category-defining human transformation platform. This partnership
strengthens BetterUp's unique platform approach that braids
coaching, science and AI-enhanced experiences to best meet the
needs of people and drive the performance organizations need.
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Globally renowned researcher and author
Brené Brown pictured with BetterUp CEO and Co-founder Alexi
Robichaux (Photo: Kirby Stenger)
The workplace is facing an evolutionary moment for leadership as
the velocity of change continues to accelerate. Technological
advancements including the advent of AI are changing more than how
people do their jobs — it’s upending 50+ years of conventional
wisdom around leadership. This moment demands courageous leaders
with often-overlooked uniquely human skills.
BetterUp’s data reveals that 72% of us aren’t working with the
optimism, agency or confidence we need to make the most of this
technological inflection point. Even amid a dramatically
accelerating pace of change, managers with the right interventions
can, and do, develop skills like tenacity, courage and trust. When
they do, their teams perform 34% better and are 21% more
innovative.
A combined 30+ years of research and insights from BetterUp and
Brené Brown show that these uniquely human skills are observable,
coachable, and measurable. The Daring Leadership Institute will
directly address this rising need with a solution that can scale
with integrity.
On establishing the Daring Leadership Institute at BetterUp,
Executive Chair Brené Brown explained, “As new technologies,
chronic uncertainty, and ever-shifting markets continue to reshape
industries and redefine the future of work, we need to develop
skill sets, mindsets, toolsets, and systems that support feedback
cultures, reward critical and anticipatory thinking, and foster
deep collaboration and inclusivity. Additionally, we need to
embrace new and uncomfortable ways of working that will feel
paradoxical in many ways – like learning how to be both very
focused and very agile, how to move with urgency and
thoughtfulness, how to lead by excavating the unsaid rather than
expending energy working around it. Our new collaboration will
allow us to bring these skill and mindset transformations to
organizations in measurable and meaningful ways. It’s a
game-changer!”
Brown’s empirically based Dare to Lead courage-building
curriculum and other comprehensive offerings will be exclusively
available to BetterUp’s community of customers, world-class coaches
and passionate members through the Human Transformation Platform.
Under Brown’s leadership, the Institute will instill bold,
transformational leadership through a measurable approach that
equip leaders with the skill sets, mindsets, systems and tools they
need to ready their performance and that of their people. Effective
immediately Brown, as Executive Chair of the Institute, will
actively contribute to customer growth through research and
advancing organizational development. Brown will join BetterUp’s
Science Board bringing her decades of experience in developing
brave leaders and courageous cultures to BetterUp’s innovative
offering.
“With Brené Brown at the helm of the Daring Leadership
Institute, we have the unique opportunity to scale her decades of
experience transforming organizations and helping CEOs accomplish
audacious goals with integrity and impact,” said Alexi Robichaux,
CEO & Co-founder of BetterUp, “Our human-first change model
combined with our trusted technology platform enables organizations
to personalize the development of their people and teams at
unprecedented scales. Partnering with a foremost expert like Brené
will transform our customers, enabling them to drive peak
performance, embrace emerging technological advancements, and
foster courageous cultures that last.”
Brené Brown shared her excitement about joining forces with
BetterUp: “Over the past five years, we’ve taken over 120,000
people across 45 countries through our Dare to Lead program. Our
evaluation data are clear - this courage-building work has a
tremendous impact on individuals, teams, and organizations. Like
all leaders, I’ve been working to understand how to meet this
once-in-a-lifetime moment of sweeping global change. I started
searching for a partner who shares our values and is bravely
innovating at the intersection of technology and human
transformation. I stopped looking when I found BetterUp! Since
meeting Eddie and Alexi a couple of years ago, I’ve had the
privilege of getting to know BetterUp and the larger team, and I’ve
been blown away. I’m proud that The Daring Leadership Institute at
BetterUp is where we’re going to develop and deliver all of my
leadership work. I believe with my whole heart that, together, we
can develop braver leaders and more courageous cultures around the
world. Let’s go!”
New product capabilities will start rolling out in Fall of 2024.
For more information about BetterUp and the collaboration with
Brené Brown, please visit Betterup.com.
About BetterUp
Founded in 2013, BetterUp® is the human transformation company
driving peak performance in individuals and organizations through
unparalleled access to coaching, content, community and AI.
BetterUp is the inventor of virtual coaching and the largest mental
health and coaching startup in the world, with the world’s largest
network of over 4,000 Coaches offering support in 64 languages
across over 70 countries. Trusted by more than 600 organizations
including NASA, Google, Chipotle, Salesforce, Hilton and other
leading Fortune 1,000 companies, BetterUp delivers on key impact
areas – transformational leadership, resilience and readiness as
well as manager effectiveness – all with the vision to inspire
people everywhere to live with greater clarity, purpose and
passion. BetterUp’s Science Board is composed of leading
researchers and luminaries in the fields of positive psychology and
human performance including Martin Seligman, Shawn Achor, Quinetta
Roberson and Adam Grant who also serves as the Chairman of the
BetterUp Center for Purpose & Performance. BetterUp has been
recognized by Inc. 5000, Fortune’s Great Places to Work, and PEOPLE
Magazine’s Companies that Care. Investors include Wellington
Management, ICONIQ Growth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Threshold
Ventures, PLUS Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures,
Mubadala Investment Company, Morningside Group, SV Angel, Freestyle
Capital, Crosslink Capital and Tenaya Capital. To learn more, visit
www.betterup.com.
About Brené Brown
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of
Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at
the Graduate College of Social Work. She also holds the position of
visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at
Austin McCombs School of Business. Brené has spent the past two
decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is
the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers and is the host of
two award-winning podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead.
Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages,
and her titles include Atlas of the Heart, Dare to Lead, Braving
the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of
Imperfection. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the bestselling
anthology You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience,
and the Black Experience.
Brené’s TED talk on the Power of Vulnerability is one of the top
five most-viewed TED talks in the world, with over 60 million
views. Brené is the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on
Netflix, and in March 2022, she launched a new show on HBO Max that
focuses on her latest book, Atlas of the Heart.
Brené spends most of her time working in organizations around
the world, helping develop braver leaders and more courageous
cultures.
About Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead is an empirically based program that focuses on
developing the four skill sets of courage: Living Into Our Values,
Rumbling with Vulnerability, Braving Trust and Learning to Rise. In
addition to skills building, the program develops mindsets that
support innovation, trust, and agility, and harnesses tools that
allow participants to embed and integrate what they’re learning
into everyday challenges and situations in tactical, actionable
ways. Dare to Lead has a long history of helping organizations
build system sets that deliver against daring goals. Over the past
seven years, over 113,000 participants in 44 countries have
completed the program, from tech disruptors, professional athletes,
and underwater engineers, to artists, global peacemakers, and NASA
Astronauts.
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