Joanna Chmura

Uncovering the four skills found in developing brave and wholehearted leaders.

It is about time we ask ourselves: what kind of leaders does this world need? Who do we need and want to be led by? Though these questions are not easy, the answer is we need courageous leaders. We need men and women who are not afraid to lead from the heart, who know how to combine reasoning with feelings, and who know how to be vulnerable and strong. It’s time for these men and women to take the lead.

Yet the question remains how do we do that? For a long time, we all thought that courage is something you either have or you don’t. After seven years of research Dr. Brené Brown from the University of Houston uncovered that this assumption is just wrong. In fact, courage is teachable, observable and measurable. She discovered that there are four skill sets we need to develop and build the courage muscle. They are not new; we just haven’t mastered them yet. We gave our hearts and minds to technology and somewhere along the way, we forgot about the heart. So, the next stage of courageous leadership will require us to go back, pick up the heart where we left it, and include it in our everyday life.

In this informative and interactive keynote Joanna will explore all these skill sets using stories, examples and research. She will dig deeper into what it really means to be a brave leader who knows how to:

• Rumble with vulnerability and bravely enter the challenges of everyday arenas
• Find values that matter the most and how to live into those values every day
• Build trust toward yourself and towards others
• Master the skill of getting yourself back up after a fall
• Joanna will show us that if we want to become wholehearted leaders, we need to develop self-love, self-awareness and the tools to help us live with integrity and authenticity. With Brené’s research at the core, Joanna’s truest belief is...who we are, is how we lead.