ONE IN TEN Podcast

In our culture, when we think of examples of leadership bravery, we often think of huge risk and very heroic images. Hollywood reinforces this with movies like Sully, about a pilot that landed his plane on the Hudson River, or war movies—really, too many to even name. And business TED Talks and articles likewise focus on turnaround artists or grandiose start-ups.

Once we set aside the fictionalized accounts of gutsy leadership, how do we know what bravery in leadership really looks like? Our guest today, leadership coach and author Nicole Bianchi, argues for something more real and within the reach of every single leader: the next small brave move.

What could that look like for us as child abuse professionals? For our organizations? And for our multidisciplinary teams? And how might we change ourselves and our agencies and the system for kids by making successive small brave moves?

Topics in this episode:

• Origin story (1:34)

• Bravery is an acquired behavior (3:19)

• The top three fears (5:22)

• Examples of small brave moves (9:15)

• The process (15:16)

• When a small brave move doesn’t go well (25:30)

• The table read (prepare!) (27:16)

• Working with teams (37:13)

• What’s next (40:28)

• Nicole at NCA’s Leadership Conference (43:32)