{"id":236877,"date":"2024-06-26T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/exclusive-vulnerability-expert-brene-brown-says-executives-who-dont-have-the-capacity-to-discuss-peoples-fears-and-feelings-will-not-be-leading-in-the-future\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:03","slug":"exclusive-vulnerability-expert-brene-brown-says-executives-who-dont-have-the-capacity-to-discuss-peoples-fears-and-feelings-will-not-be-leading-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/exclusive-vulnerability-expert-brene-brown-says-executives-who-dont-have-the-capacity-to-discuss-peoples-fears-and-feelings-will-not-be-leading-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Vulnerability expert Bren\u00e9 Brown says executives who don’t have the ‘capacity to discuss people’s fears and feelings will not be leading in the future’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Bren\u00e9 Brown<\/a> delivered one of her first leadership trainings to a group of Air Force squadron commanders in 2018, she warned their brigadier general that they would be discussing fears and feelings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Brown, a New York Times<\/em> bestselling author on shame and vulnerability and a research professor at the University of Houston, didn\u2019t know how the topic would go over considering that most people are taught not to admit to their fear. His response, however, surprised her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018When your life\u2019s on the line, you have to always deal with fears and feelings. We don\u2019t let you lead people here unless you can have a deep affection for them,\u2019\u201d Brown recalls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what it means to show up and have courage as a leader,\u201d\u00a0Brown tells Fortune<\/em> in an exclusive interview. \u201cIf you are a leader and you do not have the capacity to understand and discuss people\u2019s fears and feelings, you will not be leading in the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s workplace is in turmoil\u2014plagued by high rates of burnout<\/a> and loneliness<\/a>, while also in the throes of an AI<\/a> transformation. Brown says it\u2019s more relevant than ever for leaders, regardless of industry, to model this mindset.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know we would all love to believe that we are cognitive beings who on occasion have a pesky emotion, but we are actually emotional beings who on occasion think,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

Following the success of her 2010 TED talk, \u201cThe Power of Vulnerability,\u201d which has over 65 million views, Brown developed a leadership curriculum for organizations. Her training in courage-building has reached 120,000 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To scale her curriculum, Brown announced a partnership with BetterUp, a virtual community and training platform comprised of over 4,000 coaches across 70 countries. The company partners with hundreds of organizations and offers programming around leadership and managerial effectiveness. This week, BetterUp announced the launch of the Daring Leadership Institute, naming Brown as the Executive Chair and member of the company\u2019s science board. Brown\u2019s courage-building curriculum will be available to BetterUp members, customers, and coaches through the institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alexi Robichaux<\/a>, cofounder, and CEO of BetterUp, says there\u2019s no better time to scale Brown\u2019s content for the leaders of the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGen AI is washing out the basic Peter Drucker management skills in many ways, and the ones that remain are these Dare to Lead <\/em><\/a>leadership skills. What makes modern management and middle management so hard today is that the share of emotional labor is increasing, but the enablement and the skills around that are not,\u201d he tells Fortune<\/em>. \u201cEmotional labor is like the dirty secret of management. Things like resilience matter more than ever. Things like cognitive agility matter more than ever. Things like self-compassion matter more than ever.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What does it look like to lead with resilience and courage?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After speaking with countless Fortune 500 executives, Brown says that irrespective of industry, leaders want to live more courageously but don\u2019t know how.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that courage is teachable, observable, and measurable, but we also know that for the change to be lasting, we need to go deeper,\u201d Brown says. \u201cThe most transformational leaders out there are very clear and can very quickly identify their core values.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her research, Brown found that business leaders often identified their core values but were less able to articulate how to operationalize them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know what it feels like to be in our values and what it feels like to be outside of them. There\u2019s only so much Bridgerton<\/em> you can watch to numb that fear, to numb that feeling of like, \u2018How did I show up like that today?\u2019\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Brown, whose values are courage and faith, says she can operationalize them by one action reminder: Don\u2019t talk about people, but talk to people<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe share our values with our team. We share what it looks like when we\u2019re in them, and we share what it looks like when we\u2019re out of them,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a very normal part of our culture, especially my direct reports, to come up to me and say, \u2018Hey, that was tough. I really appreciate how you lived your values there.\u201d<\/p>\n

People must also lead with curiosity\u2014admitting what they don\u2019t know and continuing to learn, Brown says. The onus rests with the leaders with the most power to shift culture and expectations to prioritize more than the bottom line. \u201cIt takes leaders willing to reward and build accountable cultures and not tolerate people who really make armor required,\u201d she says. \u201cHave you built a culture where people can take off their armor? If not, let\u2019s start there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brown tells Fortune<\/em> she isn\u2019t asking people to become counselors or to go to work tomorrow and immediately share the deeper parts of themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a therapist to everyone you lead, but you have to care about who they are as humans,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re not asking individuals to be vulnerable at work. We\u2019re asking leaders to build cultures where armor is not rewarded or required to survive work. There\u2019s a big difference there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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