Workshops & Events

Six-Week Online Workshop
Every Tuesday Beginning April 27th | 3 hours per week

Join Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Sandra Long on an 6-Week Journey To:

• Learn how to create a safe and meaningful culture
• Create teams that take risks based on courage and trust
• Learn the key components of brave leadership
• Commit to bringing your whole heart to work each day
• Be equipped to operationalize your core values
• Learn to give more meaningful feedback to your team

To develop these skills will require brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. By blending Brené Brown’s cutting-edge Dare to Lead™ curriculum with her own Core Energy methodology, Sandra will empower you with the skills and tools to lead courageously in your life and relationships. You will emerge with the skills you need to step into your purpose with confidence.

Group size is limited to 15 for a more personalized experience.

Last day to register is Tuesday, April 20th. 

Eight-Week Online Workshop
Every Tuesday Beginning January 12th | 2 1/2 hours per week

Join Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Sandra Long on an 8-Week Journey To:

• Learn how to create a safe and meaningful culture
• Create teams that take risks based on courage and trust
• Learn the key components of brave leadership
• Commit to bringing your whole heart to work each day
• Be equipped to operationalize your core values
• Learn to give more meaningful feedback to your team

To develop these skills will require brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. By blending Brené Brown’s cutting-edge Dare to Lead™ curriculum with her own Core Energy methodology, Sandra will empower you with the skills and tools to lead courageously in your life and relationships. You will emerge with the skills you need to step into your purpose with confidence.

Group size is limited to 15 for a more personalized experience.

Last day to register is Friday, January 8.

Eight-Week Workshop
Every Thursday for 2.5 hours beginning October 1

Dare To Lead™ workshops go virtual!

The world needs more courageous leaders…

I have some incredible news! During this pandemic, Dr Brené Brown has authorized her certified instructors to facilitate virtual Dare To Lead™ workshops!  While there is no doubt that our in person workshops provided us with an opportunity to share in a face to face setting, I also received some feedback that the travel and time commitment to carve out 2-1/2 days was difficult for some; especially now with day care, in home schooling let alone the fears of COVID exposure.

Our new virtual program will consist of 2-1/2 hours a week over an 8-week period. Dr Brown has updated our content with the most current, empirically based leadership research. Building on her two decade long study of courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and a seven-year study on courageous leadership, Dr. Brown’s research reveals that the ideal leader is someone who cultivates a culture in which brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts are the expectation.

As all of you know, the costs of in person learning versus virtual learning have been a hot topic across the country. Since I will not need to rent a facility or provide food, I am passing along those savings to my clients, contact me to get more details.

This is your opportunity to become a braver leader as you learn the four empirically proven skills sets of courageous leadership that are teachable, measurable, and observable:

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

 Are you ready to become a more courageous leader?  Join Sandra Long for a virtual 8-week workshop beginning Thursday, October 1^st.   Click here for more details.

June 10
Six-week online book club.

Join us as we explore the research findings of Dr. Brené Brown through her New York times best seller Dare to Lead™.

Brené has spent the last twenty years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and most recently completed a seven-year study on brave leadership. The goal of Dare to Lead™ is to share everything we’ve learned about taking off the armor and showing up as leaders in a skills-based and actionable playbook. Here are a few of the big ideas that emerged from this research:

1. You can’t get to courage without rumbling with vulnerability. Embrace the suck.
2. Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead.
3. Courage is contagious.

April 22
Santa Ynez Chamber of Commerce – Webinar

The one thing that is constant is change and now more than ever.  Resiliency or the ability to rise after set backs, is going to be the skillset that sets you apart.  Resiliency is a muscle that is built over time, join us as we explore ways to increase your stress resiliency.

April 8
Santa Ynez Chamber of Commerce – Webinar

When leaders succumb to scarcity and fear, they give up a lot of their power and influence. You as a leader have something to offer, some way to help those in your circles of influence. Your expertise and wisdom may be a lifeline for employees, clients, and colleagues, looking for one constant when the world feels turned upside down.

Join us as we uncover 3 strategies for leading your team and business in these uncertain times.

March 5th and March 6th
Loyola Marymount University

Please join us for the “Dare to Lead” Workshop based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building leadership program facilitated by Sandra Long, Certified Dare to Lead organizational development professional.

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, resulting in individuals, teams and organizations moving from armored leadership to daring leadership.

This two-day “Dare to Lead” Workshop will help you:

• Be the kind of leader others will want to follow
• Be the kind of partner/parent/friend you want to be
• Get results and be even more effective and productive
• Create a stronger, more effective team
• Tap into your values and lead your life authentically

Upon successfully completion of this the full 16-hour Dare to Lead program you will receive a Dare to Lead Trained badge that can be posted on their LinkedIn account.

Two-day workshop from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm each day.

January 22 – Three Part Series
Loyola Marymount University Children’s Center

The Dare To Lead Program Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based Leadership Development program. Brené is a research professor at the University of Houston. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and most recently completed a seven-year study on courageous leadership.  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 couragebuilding skills.

Over the next 3 sessions we will meet as a team to move from armored leadership to daring leadership.  Sandra will take us through the Dare to Lead™ program, utilizing video, workbooks and team interaction.  Our first meeting will be on January 22nd.  Future dates will be available at our first meeting.

December 16
IACC Annual Convention

Succession planning must be treated as an ongoing, essential process that needs to be baked into the fabric of the organization. Otherwise, the organization will be less likely to grow, attract top talent, and—for for-profit organizations—attain its highest-possible valuation. Also, leaders and managers will not have the leverage they need to focus on strategic issues rather than constantly fighting fires and immediate crises.

During this presentation participants will learn a comprehensive succession planning process.

• Foundation: Vision and Talent Needs. Lay out the vision for where the organization is going and what types of talent is needed. Identify what roles require succession plans, individuals that have the potential to be future leaders, and roles that might require external hires.
• Get the House in Order: Assess and create an action plan to get the house in order so that succession planning can become part of the fabric of the organization (e.g., human resource best practices). Including processes to recruit, retain, and develop top talent, and how to improve them.
• Maintenance: Performance review cycles, participants discuss specific employees with an eye to succession planning. Determine who has high potential, might be ready to move up, and how to get them to the next level. Examine key roles that might need a successor soon, and review/develop a plan to fill them. During these reviews, participants can also discuss flight risks and how to keep them engaged.

December 12
Caine & Weiner

Daring Leaders live into their values. When tough conversations arise or difficult decisions need to be made, these values serve as an anchor and keep them grounded.  Have you ever explicitly defined your values and the behaviors that support them? In this workshop we will drill down to two anchor values and identify ways these values can help you build your courage muscle in work and life.

In this four-hour workshop, we will explore how values operate in our professional lives and the role they play in integrity and daring leadership.

You will:

• Identify your core values and the behaviors that support these values so you can learn to recognize when you are acting from a place of integrity (and when you are not).
• Learn the daring leadership skills that help guide tough conversations including giving and receiving feedback.
• Learn how authenticity is cultivated by Living BIG: establishing boundaries, practicing integrity, and extending generosity.
• Learn to recognize how shame, scarcity, and comparison show up in the workplace and how they affect engagement, trust, and connection.

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. Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to help everyone in your organization learn the skills, practices and tools needed to support brave leadership and build more courageous cultures.

November 21 and 22
Hillcrest Country Club, Los Angeles

Are You Looking To:

• Elevate your current role?
• Redefine your career?
• Deepen the connection in your relationships?
• Find your purpose?

The two-day Dare to Lead™ workshop is based on the groundbreaking research of Dr. Brené Brown, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, most-watched TED Talk speaker, leadership guru, and University of Houston research professor.  Brought to you by Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Sandra Long, PCC, this immersive bootcamp will help you become braver and more solution-oriented in your work and/or personal life. The format is intimate and interactive, using group teaching, small group discussion, exclusive video segments, and self-exploration exercises to help you develop Brene’s four skill sets of courage. To develop these skills will require brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. By blending Brene’s cutting-edge Dare to Lead™ curriculum with her own Core Energy methodology, Sandra will empower you with the skills and tools to lead courageously in your life and relationships – from work to management to marriage to parenting. You will emerge with the skills you need to step into your purpose with confidence.

October 16
IACC Webinar

Influence is what sets top leaders apart from the rest. We have developed an approach that can help anyone be more influential, from C-level executives to up-and-coming managers. This webinar will make a difference to anyone who gets results by influencing others, including customers, investors, employees, or colleagues.

Participants will leave understanding the The Principles of Influence including:

• The biggest mistakes leaders make when trying to influence others, and how to avoid them
• A six-part planning process that gets the desired result in almost any influence conversation
• Seven different ways to influence somebody else
• How to handle conversations when the other person gets emotional, and other challenges