Candace Doby
Leadership communication strategist, author and courage coach delivering practical communication tools to build courageous leaders and high-performing teams.
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- Partners with leaders of organizations to increase engagement and innovation by creating a culture of courage where employees have the support to speak up.
- Shares a Courage-Ready framework — built from a decade of courage research, award-winning leadership at Chipotle, and insights from solo global travel — to equip employees with practical tools to speak up, step up and show up fully at work.
- Offers a fun, accessible entry point into the conversation on courage with her inspirational journal, A Cool Girl’s Guide To Courage.
- Brings command, relatability and humor to the stage and screen.
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Candace Doby is founder of The Can-Do Company. She is a leadership development strategist, author of A Cool Girl’s Guide To Courage, and professional speaker who works with organizations to create a culture of courage where employees spend less time and energy censoring and hiding themselves and more time performing at their highest potential.
Candace combines a decade of research on courage with her experiences traveling the world solo and a 16-year, award-winning marketing career — much of which was spent leading teams at Chipotle. This unique combination equips her with the actionable strategies she has shared with leaders across the globe to help them courageously speak up, step up and show up in the workplace.
To account for the enormous impact of courage, Candace’s delivery of strategies and tools is equally grand. Clients often refer to her in-person and virtual presence as “captivating.”
She has worked with organizations such as The Timken Company, International Interior Design Association, Duracell, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the U.S. Navy and many others. Her work has been featured on MSNBC, NPR and TEDx.
Candace is the creator of The Courage Hotline podcast, host of The Own Your Brilliance retreat and the owner of Pep Talker greeting cards, available online and in select stores.
Candace holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and a master’s degree in Technology and Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also ran track.
Learn and apply the real-world skills that create an empowered workplace culture, where everyone is equipped and supported to speak up, show up and step up with courage.
Learn and apply the real-world skills that create an empowered workplace culture, where everyone is equipped and supported to speak up, show up and step up with courage.
This program is perfect for :
- Organizations looking to increase innovation by cultivating an environment where risk-taking is routine
- Managers and leaders who want to build teams where everyone can contribute and perform to their potential
- Organizations looking to drive long-term employee engagement and productivity
By the end of this program, participants
will be able to :
- Follow the courage process employees undergo to prepare themselves to own their brilliance at work.
- Identify key opportunities within that process to deliberately engage and support their teams in taking worthwhile risks.
- Apply key strategies to those opportunities that, when repeated, start to create a culture where employees are engaged, ready, willing and able to courageously speak up, step up and show up.
An organization’s ability to reach its highest level of excellence comes down to one thing: its people — courageously owning their brilliance, in both typical and transitional times.
An organization’s ability to reach its highest level of excellence comes down to one thing: its people — courageously owning their brilliance, in both typical and transitional times. In this leadership development presentation, participants learn a process for how to manage fear, activate personal courage and take worthwhile risks — so they can unleash their potential and make a greater impact on their organization.
This keynote is perfect for:
- Organizations that want to develop courageous leaders who can navigate change and challenges and lead the brand forward.
- Organizations looking to boost employee satisfaction by helping employees own and demonstrate their unique talents and skills.
- Organizations eager to leverage diverse, creative thinking by unlocking the potential of its employees, particularly young professionals.
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify three key components in the development of courage that will eliminate the frustrating feeling of not knowing where to start when facing a new challenge
- Convert those components into a process that prepares them to evaluate risks from insight, instead of insecurity
- Leverage that process when opportunities arise for them to step outside of their comfort zone and demonstrate their brilliance
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