The Call to Courageous Leadership in Nonprofits

About the Workshop: The Call to Courageous Leadership in Nonprofits

What is your call to courage? Find the answer to this question and more at this interactive 2.5 hour workshop with Dare to Lead certified facilitator, Julie Boll.  Julie is passionate about helping nonprofits learn the skills, practices and tools needed to support brave leadership and build more courageous cultures. Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empirically based courage-building program designed to be facilitated by organizational development professionals. Brené is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and most recently completed a seven-year study on courageous leadership. She is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly,Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and Dare to Lead, which also debuted at #1 on The Wall Street Journal and Publisher’s Weekly list. 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. Join us to learn more about these skill sets and start your journey to more courageous leadership and braver cultures. 

Session Learning Objectives: Participants will learn that daring leadership requires for sets of skills that can be learned: rumbling with vulnerability, living into our values, braving trust, and learning to rise; Participants will begin practicing how to ask for what you need, set boundaries, and reach out for support; Participants will determine their call to courage as a leader.
About the Presenter: Julie Boll

Julie Boll, M.Ed. is the founder of Julie Boll Consulting, which provides grant writing and strategic planning support to nonprofits. Julie is a certified Dare to Lead Facilitator, and, in 2019, was a part of the inaugural global cohort of Leadership and Organizational Development professionals selected by thought-leader Brené Brown to facilitate her work in organizations. As a Courage Catalyst in the Dare to Lead™ program, Julie focuses her work on helping nonprofits learn the skills, practices and tools needed to support brave leaders and build more courageous cultures. Over the course of her career, Julie has helped her clients and employers secure more than $9.4 M in competitive grants from foundation, state and federal funders. From 2011 to 2017, she wrote more than $6.2 M in awarded competitive grants for Quincy University including the university’s first NSF grant in over 25 years and a $2.25 million US Dept of Education grant.  Julie has more than 18 years experience in the nonprofit sector, serving in marketing, public relations and grant development roles. She is Grant Professional Certified by the GPCI Institute and a Grants Professionals Association (GPA) Approved Trainer. Julie has taught a graduate level course in Grant Writing at Quincy University, presented at state-wide conferences, and recently co-authored a peer reviewed journal article in the Grant Professionals Association Journal.