Candace Doby

Leadership development advisor providing actionable strategies to help organizations create a culture of courage where employees perform at their highest potential.

Expert on

  • Corporate Culture
  • Leadership – Entry Level
  • Leadership – Mid Level Managers
  • Personal Development
  • Associations
  • Resilience
  • Motivation

Fee Range

$17,500–$25,000

Travels from

GA, US

Biography

Candace Doby is a  speaker, author of A Cool Girl’s Guide To Courage, and coach who works  with organizations to create a culture of courage where employees  perform at their highest potential.

Candace combines a decade of research on courage with her  experiences leading marketing teams at Chipotle and traveling the world  solo. This unique combination equips her with the implementable  strategies she has shared with thousands of leaders to help them  courageously speak up, step up and show up in the workplace.

Candace is known for delivering those strategies with a blend of  truth, love and a bit of attitude to match the realness of courage, which  prompts clients to refer to her in-person and virtual presence as  “captivating”. She has worked with organizations such as the The Timken  Company, MARTA, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,  American Camp Association and many others. Her work has been featured on  MSNBC and NPR.

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.

Speaker Videos

CREATE A COURAGE-READY CULTURE™

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 keynote 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 presentation, 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 ready, willing and able to courageously speak up, step up and show up

COURAGE AT WORK: HOW TO TAKE MORE RISKS AND OWN YOUR BRILLIANCE

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