As professional coaches and facilitators, my colleague Moreen Branham and I are interested in hearing about the specific leadership challenges you are experiencing in these turbulent times. Ultimately, we would like to use this information to construct learning events that are optimally useful to people just like you. We know people are often overbooked these days and demands are high. Please consider helping us by sharing your thoughts and feelings on the following Courageous Leadership Survey. Please write as little or as much as you like about the following questions.
- Describe one act of courageous leadership you initiated within the last two years.
- How did this act work out for you?
- Describe one act of courageous leadership you avoided or hesitated to initiate in the last two years?
- How did the situation work out for you?
- Whether you took action, avoided it or hesitated, how do these choices reflect your own private view of yourself?
- How have these choices and what has happened as a result influenced your current willingness to exercise your leadership?
- What else would it be helpful to know about you and situations you faced?
- In general, how well are you surviving and thriving in these challenging times?
There is no special definition of leader or courage that we are using. If you consider yourself a leader formally or informally and consider your actions courageous (or not) please feel free to respond.
We will hold your survey responses entirely confidential unless you tell us otherwise. Any reporting we do of the results will be anonymized and no specific stories, incidents or other trackable information will ever be disclosed without your explicit permission.
If you would be interested in talking with us further, would like to be interviewed instead of completing the survey or would like to receive a later report about what we learn, please give us a way to get hold of you.
Thank you so much!
Please forward your email to:
dan@danieloestreich.com and/or moreenbranham@gmail.com
Who we are:
Dan Oestreich is the principal of Oestreich Associates, a national leadership coaching and consulting practice located in the Seattle area. For the last 30 years, he has worked creatively with leaders to help them hear feedback that will improve trust levels and systems performance, and facilitate the work of building strong workplace communities. He is known as an effective, articulate coach, able to sensitively help clients find their own best path of change and personal growth. He is the author of two well-known books on speaking up at work, Driving Fear Out of the Workplace and The Courageous Messenger. For ten years he led Beyond the Edge, a personal and professional leadership growth workshop in Jackson, Wyoming. Dan’s clients include healthcare systems, universities, services, governments, manufacturers and non-profit agencies. Website: https://danieloestreich.com
Dan received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Arts in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Moreen Branham brings more than 30 years of experience developing leaders at all levels, most recently as Director of Clinical Operations and Vice President and Chief People Officer for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA). Compassion, courage, and authenticity are cornerstones of her work. Her experience as a licensed social worker and at SCCA equipped Moreen with a deep understanding of what it takes to support others through difficult transitions, whether it’s supporting patients and families through trauma, loss and grief, or guiding leaders in learning to trust themselves and grow through difficult times. Moreen now makes her home in Sedona, Arizona, and continues to consult on leadership development.
Moreen received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master of Social Work, and an Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington.
