Caroline Pankhurst

Caroline Pankhurst is the Founder of Be Braver, a business coaching consultant and researcher in the psychology and philosophy of courage.

A former board director in the commercial sector working on global brands across multiple sectors, she now straddles academia, entrepreneurship, learning & development.

She launched Be Braver, bringing together her academic and applied psychological research, commercial acumen & coaching, to build braver futures and cultures. Offering practical, measurable programmes to create lasting behaviour change in organisations leadership & high potential talent her approach focuses on psychological safety, decision-making, managing change, uncertainty & values-based leadership.

Her programme & practice transforms the careers, ambitions & futures for those who want to get to the stages, places and spaces they deserve to be in.

In late 2020 she launched the Be Braver Collective in response to the COVID pandemic creating an online community of ambitious, supportive & collaborative women who work together from a range of professions, backgrounds & industries.  

Unified by one core value and ambition. To choose courage & be braver.

Considered thoughtful, passionate, empathetic, driven, fierce & inspiring with an insatiable appetite for growth, learning & creativity - there is every bit of Caroline in the programme, thinking, delivery & experience of learning to Be Braver.

Partnerships

We work with a range of partners, associates, coaches, and facilitators – Be Braver practitioners who practice courage personally and professionally.

• Offering training to coaches, leaders and facilitators who wish to be certified trainers to deliver the Be Braver programme within their own organisations or practice

• Partnerships with bodies and associations who wish to sponsor or offer programmes, or workshops  for particular sectors

  • Leadership Accelerators

  • Women in Data & Technology

  • Courage and Wellbeing

  • Future Talent

  • Inclusive Leadership

  • Psychological Safety

  • Courageous Conversations

• Collaborations with our network of incredible industry experts to design sector specific programmes around our unique Be Braver spaces and programme to tackle the nuanced challenges of practicing leadership with a specialised peer network