Create a Culture of Authentic Thriving
To create a positive impact as a leader, what really matters is how you care for and return to your best self, the way you take courageous action, and the vision you inspire. When you bounce forward from setbacks and share your authentic self, you magnify the influence you have on your colleagues, your organization, and the world.
This certificate course builds on the wisdom of the best-selling book, Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership, and is designed for women who want honest conversations and practical advice on how to truly thrive in leadership and help others do so too.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for women leaders who want to lead with more ease, courage, and authenticity so they can thrive. You will learn proven practices to help you invest in your best self, respond to setbacks with resilience, and inspire others with your bold vision.

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Impact and Outcomes
- Lead with more ease by building on your strengths and focusing on what gives you personal joy and vitality.
- Minimize the risks and strengthen your ability to act with courage.
- Build your capacity for resilience so you can “bounce forward” from setbacks.
- Gain clarity on how to move the needle on your specific leadership issues, challenges, and barriers to thriving through executive coaching.
- Identify who you are at your best and how you can lead from your best self.
- Lead your team with more purpose towards a clearly defined, shared vision.
- Learn how to create a healthy team environment that allows everyone to thrive.
- Bring a more authentic version of yourself to your leadership practice.
Curriculum
Program Kickoff
Set the stage for a high-impact learning experience:
- Get to know your learning community.
- Understand the learning journey.
- Prepare to make the most of your time investment.
Investing in Your Best Self
Spend more time operating from your best self:
- Understand who you are at your best.
- Learn what enables you to be in your best self and what blocks you.
- Consider what would be possible if you lived more of your life from your best self.
- Discuss how harshness towards yourself and others impacts your ability to be your best self.
- Learn a process for returning to your best self when you are activated into harshness.
Embracing Authenticity
Navigate the complexities of authenticity to show up more authentically at work:
- Understand the relationship between you best self and your authentic self.
- Discuss how to navigate the desire to be true to yourself with the need to grow and evolve.
- Clarify your values to support your understanding of your authentic self.
- Explore how to show up as your authentic self in a balanced and measured way, especially when you aren’t in the majority population.
Cultivating Courage
Take courageous and thoughtful action when risks emerge:
- Understand the sources of courage and identify your personal sources.
- Discover how you have already created conditions for courage.
- Learn tools for taking courageous action.
- Discuss how to act with courage despite the risk of failure.
Fostering Resilience
Bounce back more quickly from setbacks and adversity:
- Understand resilience’s role in thriving and how it differs from coping.
- Use the “S Curve of learning” to understand your current state and how that impacts your need for resilience.
- Discuss the role of well-being in resilience.
- Develop your personal circles of support.
Inspiring a Bold Vision
Develop and compelling enroll others in your bold vision:
- Capture the “whispers of your heart” to inspire your vision.
- Develop a vision statement for your organization and for yourself.
- Ground your vision in purpose.
- Practice how to communicate your vision with enthusiasm.
Creating a Healthy Team Environment
Help build a team environment where you and your team members can thrive:
- Discuss how to develop psychological safety.
- Learn how to bring an appreciative approach to challenging interactions.
- Explore how to understand and unleash team member strengths.
- Plan how your team can learn and develop together.
Path to Action
Ensure ongoing thriving:
- Create your thriving inspiration tools.
- Develop your action plan.
- Commit to action and establish how you will stay accountable.
Program Schedule
Join Us for the Winter 2024 Program
This certificate program is delivered in a dynamic virtual format, featuring highly interactive live sessions along with coaching and reflection time at the end of each session.
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Jan. 25, 2024 | 2:00pm – 4:30pm | Welcome & Building the Foundation |
Feb. 1, 2024 | 1:00pm – 5:00pm | Investing in Best Self |
Feb. 8, 2024 | 1:00pm – 4:15pm | Embracing Authenticity |
Feb. 15, 2024 | 1:00pm – 4:15pm | Cultivating Courage |
Feb. 29, 2024 | 1:00pm – 4:15pm | Fostering Resilience |
March 7, 2024 | 1:00pm – 5:00pm | Inspiring a Bold Vision |
March 14, 2024 | 1:00pm – 5:00pm | Healthy Team Environment + Path to Action |
Our Faculty
Susan MacKenty Brady
Co-author Susan MacKenty Brady will share the insights she gained while writing the Wall Street Journal best-selling Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership, as well as her latest thinking on how to increase your positive impact as a leader, both for yourself and for your colleagues.
Susan is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at Simmons University and the first Chief Executive Officer of the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership. Susan has published three books on leadership.
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