BRAVE Conversations® Over Coffee
Our research-based, proven framework gives leaders the tools to unlock human intelligence and build cultures of belonging.
In a virtual world, companies struggle to build and maintain culture...
Virtual environments can feel empty and superficial and make employees feel disconnected and disengaged.
Leaders were never taught how to build environments where people feel safe speaking up, disagreeing or asking for help.
Leaders often unintentionally disempower, diminish and overwhelm the people on their team.
We cracked the code with BRAVE Conversations Over Coffee®
The main driver of employee experience and culture is the way leaders communicate. Every initiative starts and ends with communication. It is the one thing that everyone in your organization has uninterrupted access to, even if hybrid or remote. That makes it your greatest tool for change. We help companies use conversation to sustainably:
drive cross functional collaboration
multiply knowledge sharing and creation
align on vision and drive company initiatives
unlock innovation and untapped potential
boost morale, motivation and productivity
operationalize inclusion as part of company DNA
amplify trust and organizational resilience
diffuse stress, overwhelm and burnout
improve retention, mental health and wellbeing
build a human culture rooted in respect, purpose, belonging, growth and equality
“I think you struck it right on the head with BRAVE Conversations. All too often, I and my team avoid having the difficult conversations and as a result problems grow and trust is not built. Thanks to your enlightening, we have included having BRAVE Conversations as part of our goals this year throughout our entire team. I truly believe it will help us build trust and either avoid problems or resolve them faster. While we are still a work in progress, I would guess your impact will cause a 20-30% increase in productivity immediately, with more to come.”
— Jay Della Monica, CEO, Creative Food Corp.
Future-proof organizations are up-skilling leaders
We created The BRAVE Framework™ and BRAVE Conversations™ Accelerator programs to arm leaders with the tools and skills needed to usher their organizations into the future.
At its core, BRAVE is a shared language that transforms culture from the inside out. Rooted in the science of psychological safety, resilience and motivation, The BRAVE Framework™ provides leaders with a step-by-step roadmap for simultaneously addressing difficult issues and building high-performing cultures where teams thrive.
BRAVE Conversations™ programs harness the art and science of conversation and the principles of experiential learning to give leaders an intimate place to practice and hone these skills, so they can take your business to the next level by taking your people to the next level.
Organizations don’t change. People do.
"I 100% would have left the firm if it wasn’t for this program. Having the skills I learned in BRAVE and really going through this life changing experience has worked wonders for me mentally. I see that I am able to (i) approach situations with better mindsets (ii) engage in conversations and really listen to manage myself and my emotions instead of the other person and (iii) walk away from those conversations not feeling like a bomb that's about to explode. I CANNOT tell you enough how life changing this program has been for me."
— E.O., Manager, CITRIN COOPERMAN
How we work with companies*
BRAVE can take many forms, from workshops with leadership or individual teams to up-skilling entire organizations and all the support and capacity building that happens in between. Together, we will co-create a program that fits the needs of your people, your organization and your values.
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Whether for executives, middle management or emerging leader training, culture and psychological safety start at the top. These intimate sessions get leadership on board to start modeling BRAVE, which starts the chain reaction of employees communicating differently and overwhelm subsiding.
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Popular for onboarding, bonding, operationalizing inclusion or other cultural initiatives, addressing burnout or stress on high growth teams, getting sprint teams up to speed before project deployment, ensuring effective communication and knowledge sharing even in a hybrid or fully remote workforce.
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Known as BRAVE-ing sessions, these take place during an intensive or immersion program and target specific issues and conversations that need to be workshopped in real time so that employees at any level can focus on the real tasks at hand.
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These can be used to kick off an initiative, expand BRAVE’s impact after teams are fluent, to address specific issues that arise or for ongoing bonding and continuing a culture of truth telling and transparency.
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Our BRAVE Index is designed to take the temperature of individual contributors, leaders, teams or entire organizations. We assess before and after our time together to help unearth employee sentiment, identify areas for growth and give clear metrics of improvement.
Start your journey to becoming a BRAVE organization!
STEP 1: Click the button below and fill out the form.
STEP 2: We will reach out and create a development strategy together
STEP 3: Take your first BRAVE step toward elevating your organization!
“Elisabeth was a breath of fresh air, and quite a powerful influence on how to spark BRAVE Conversations at work and at home. We all benefited so much from her powerful facilitation of this framework. Thank you for helping us learn how to have difficult conversations and be more brave, especially during this particular moment in history.”
— Stevie Rabinowitz, L&D, FACEBOOK
Not in charge of programming at work, but want to be BRAVE?
Join the next cohort of the course that’s sold out every time it’s run! We created it for individual leaders who want a deep dive into the content I've taught with Simon Sinek the past few years. While its on a smaller scale than our corporate work, we constantly hear: “it’s life-changing!”
*We pay it forward.
We believe that giving back is the only way forward. So, a percentage of every corporate conversation is allocated to allow us to bring together diverse groups in the community to take steps forward toward mutual understanding, over coffee.
We’ve worked with 9/11 survivors, first responders, the Muslim community and students, women impacted by trauma, young women entrepreneurs and look forward to bringing BRAVE to many more groups! IF you have a group that could use BRAVE, we’d love to hear from you!
It all started over coffee…
After owning the coffee company featured in the Netflix documentary “Coffee For All” for the past decade, we’ve harnessed one of the world’s most familiar rituals as a tool to gather us and create change. The conversations we have over coffee are different than any we have in the boardroom. We believe they are the key to deeper connection - to others, to ourselves, to the purpose in our days and to the world we’re here to serve. There has never been a more perfect time to use conversation to take better care of ourselves and others, so that we can all take brave steps forward together.
…and wanting to live our legacy, out loud.
"You need BRAVE, your mother, father, significant other, and your world needs BRAVE… These small subtle shifts that you learn will not only teach you to see yourself and the world completely differently, but more kindly. Better leader and teammate? Check. Better spouse or significant other? Check. More in-tuned with who you are: strengths, weaknesses, and all? Check."
— Talya S., Associate, PwC / Officer US Army Reserve