When you Make Courage Contagious, you'll lift followers out of fear - so they engage, invest and contribute before they're comfortable. And so they champion the possibilities you imagine, to help you reshape the next new standard of care.

This FREE Introductory Courage Quest will show you how to PowerUP your presence, resilience and confidence, even in challenging turbulent times. To get funded and get traction by winning the confidence of investors, buyers and users. To mobilize Key Opinion Leaders as champions. To PowerUP each other's brilliance - so conflict and tension spark ingenuity. And get bosses and boards to trust you with bigger broader responsibilities, staying ahead of what enterprise growth or pivots require.

You'll get a profile of your courage-building superpowers + growth needs on the 5 courage-building leadership secrets. And tips to pitch your aspirations to Sponsors and Champions you want to mobilize. You'll see how Courage can build your self-awareness. skills, application and culture-shaping.

Click the GET STARTED button to open your FREE Introductory Quest. And see if Courage is right for you - before you purchase more Quests in a Courage Leadership Journey, to make yourself capital-ready and opportunity-ready.

This Leadership Quest equips you to refine the Content and Delivery of your Investor Pitch - so you pique investor interest and win confidence in your ability to deliver a compelling ROI.

Why Make Courage Contagious? Because it takes courage for an investor to say, "Yes" and jump into a deal, bring syndication partners along with them, and commit the time and reputation capital required to engage in due diligence. It takes even more courage for them to step up and champion your deal to other investors and decision-makers.

Courage isn't just the magic you create with an inspiring presence and message. It's also the confidence you earn in Due Diligence, so investors see how you'll execute and get traction. In this Quest, you'll learn the 5As to build that Courage.

The GET STARTED button will open your Pitch Prep Quest - with a series of Missions to refine your pitch and get ready for a Pitch Prep Coaching Session. When you're ready to purchase a pitch prep session - or add more Courage Leadership Quests to your growth journey - use the Coaching button to reach out to your Courage Coach and make arrangements to purchase more than this free quest.

To see more Courage Leadership Quests, go to the Catalog Landing Page and you'll see the leadership Quests that will build your self-awareness, finesse, skill and team mobilization. To purchase more Courage Leadership Quests, your Courage Coach can help Or email us @ Info@CourageGrowthPartners.com

This Pitch Prep Quest equips you to…

• See your deal from the investor's perspective - so you can show what's in it for them to fund your venture and risk their reputation and time, as well as their capital
• Show that you have the right stuff to do a successful launch and grow the venture - which may be different from showing you had the right stuff to get your solution or your venture to where it is now
• Give investors confidence that they can earn a good ROI - and that they're top of mind, rather than an afterthought
• Learn - with agility to be coachable, listen to feedback, use market feedback and persuade buyers and users to adopt, in a way that makes you an indispensable upgrade
• Use "drip irrigation" and good two-way communication to foster a relationship, so investors get to know you and invest in a partnership, not just a transaction
• Form a board that validates your value proposition, sharpens your thinking and champions your values - not just represents the interests of a faction who has a stake in your success
• Build a sustainable win/win/win relationship - so investors jump in as proponents and champions, not just do a one-off transaction

Build your Development + Growth Plan. Meet your Courage Coach for your Aspiration + Positive Future Interview. Use insights from yourAppetite + Readiness and a Courage Leadership Self-Assessment. Make the most of high-level Sponsor support from your boss, board and buyer decision-makers. Make space in your work schedule for check-ins, huddles, skill practice + traction monitoring. AIM high and set goals for your growth and the difference you'll make when you step up, reach out and take charge. Post your growth map as your Courage GPS, to keep your focus and direction in mind, no matter how busy it gets.

Continue to this Power UP Quest, after your FREE Introduction, and you'll get…

• An Aspiration + Positive Future Interview with a certified Courage Coach - to get clarity about the leadership development plan that will take you forward fast, in the right direction
• A Sponsor Support Mission to get your boss and board onboard - so you they help you get traction on your development goals
• A Quickee Self-Assessment on the 5As that Make Courage Contagious and lift followers out of fear and risk-averse comfort-zone trap
• A Growth + Individual Development Plan to continue to build self-awareness, skills, actions and a culture that accelerates and optimizes success, which you'll update and refine as you continue to get new insights, practice and apply new skills
• Access to the entire Menu of Courage Building Quests - in a step-by-step learning journey that will equip you to get traction, get funded, get support and get ahead
• The rigour and discipline to make the most of the support that your coach can provide and to keep the followers you need to mobilize connected and on belay

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Victim thinking is the risk-averse trap that surrenders control to external forces - like luck, market forces, frustrating buyers or supporters who let you down. Victim thinking keeps you at Level 0-1-2, waiting for the fog to clear or others to step up and deliver. With a take-charge mindflip, you can shape your fate, rather than settle for the fate you find. You can approach Volatile Uncertain Complex Adverse (VUCA) conditions with an internal locus of control and a find-solutions make-things-happen mindset, rather than an external surrender-your-power locus of control. You can create a culture of accountability, not wait-and-see passivity. This Quest shows you how to…

• Recognize victim traps - when you feel trapped by bad luck, broken promises or events beyond your control
• Own your power (without delusions of grandeur) - so you imagine what you can do to keep the ball in your court, take charge and find new levers of influence 
• Shift from passive to active, by taking control and taking action to get more traction than you'd get finding fault or waiting and hoping
• Foster accountability by looking for solutions and actions to seize opportunities and make things better, rather than excuses or blame
• Bring a triumph mindset, not a defeatist mindset, to thrive and profit through turbulence and VUCA conditions

There's a motto associated with one of our country's Founding Parents: "If you have the will, freedom need not be a dream." Our Founding Parents knew - it took courage to step up, throw off centuries of oppression and shape our destiny, rather than wait for the next chapter of destiny to shape us. The same is true with the innovation you are bringing to buyers and investors in your enterprise. You can drive adoption, rather than waiting for users to find you. Here's how.

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Challenge yourself to profit through turbulence. In this simulation, you'll travel back to the time of Marco Polo - to find innovative food tech solutions and bring them back home. If you're successful, you'll improve the lives of everyone who eats (and who doesn't eat?). And you'll enrich yourselves and the investors who funded your expedition.

You'll have 90 minutes of gameplay - facing competition, adversaries, dangers and turbulent market conditions. You'll debrief to ask, "So what?" - see how well your team performed. And to see what opportunities you seized and when you made risk-averse compromises.

Have fun, compete well, and may the very best team win!

It takes courage to commit - and be accountable. This Courage Quest starts with your aspirations and ambitions - and converts them into real AIMs, so you and your Sponsors commit to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

With S.M.A.R.T. OKRs - that are Specific Measurable A-level Relevant and Time-bound - your Sponsors move from fear to confidence, and from hopes and dreams to concrete plans they can support. Partners move from asking, "How are things going?" to asking, "How can we contribute?" You'll have tracking tools and a WorkOS in place - with dashboards that you can monitor, to see who's doing what, who deserves appreciation and encouragement, and who needs help.

You'll build a culture of accountability from the bottom-up, top-down, inside-out and outside-in. To reshape standards of care. Make the most of investments. Learn from seeing what works (and what doesn't). Delight your champions. And celebrate your triumphs, as you profit through turbulence, lift your game and make a difference.

It takes courage to reach out, take initiative, think ahead and orchestrate for impact and team success. Especially when you're not everyone's big boss, and the players you need come from different specialities, partners and business units.

This quest equips you to orchestrate the efforts of a virtual matrix multi-enterprise team who's pulling together, supporting each other and co-ordinating efforts to get traction. You'll expand your reach and orchestrate as the lynchpin who's co-ordinating, integrating, directing and facilitating the efforts of a virtual or matrix cross-functional multi-enterprise team. If you're the Sponsor, you'll delegate and empower Orchestrators - to get the traction your enterprise needs. And if you're another contributor, this quest will help you understand what adds value when you show up with your A-game.

In this Quest, you'll

• Map the support you need to mobilize, to get traction, get funded, get adoption, get buyers to say Yes, and transform your industry or accepted standards of care
• Look beyond your silo, chain of command and pay grade, when you figure out who has to be in the right position doing the right things so that your deal or your initiative gets traction
• Recognize when you need more than a "pair of hands" from the players you mobilize - so you get their ingenuity and initiative, so solve problems you haven't yet imagined
• Prevent role confusion and role conflicts, so the partners you mobilize are clear about what's needed when - with the agility and fluidity you expect
• Set rhythms for huddles, scrums, accountability check-ins, updates and for ongoing asynchronous co-ordination

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Be a challenger and ennobler, who can lift buyers out of old habits so they embrace game-changing innovations and new standards of care, rather than an order-taker who enables them to stay were it's easy and comfortable? This Quest will equip you to deliver the 5As with finesse to overcome risk-averse compromises like sandbagging, groupthink, summit fever, and tunnel vision. It will equip you to earn the credibility to be a trusted advisor, when you ask followers to stretch, learn and champion something new.

This Quest will equip you to…

• Respond to fear by engaging, exploring and challenging, rather than acquiescing
• Use your empathy and EQ to connect with fearful and reluctant buyers, so they feel your support and understand you're on their side
• Step up, reach out and initiate ennobling dialogues with supporters who can lift their game and make a difference

Boost your agility to appreciate diverse perspectives, even when they rub you the wrong way or challenge your hegemony. Lift antagonists out of win/lose rivalries, bias against outliers, and other risk averse traps, when diversity threatens to become a zero-sums game. Tap opposing Myers Briggs Types - and other diversity dimensions - so abrasion sharpens everyone's best thinking and accelerates traction. Anticipate sensitivities and triggers so you build trust and bring out the best in others and so you PowerUP the superpowers and initiative that you need to get traction and make a difference.

This Quest equips you to…

• Broaden your appreciation - so you see the artistry in music, personalities and diverse backgrounds that rub you the wrong way
• Own the superpowers in your Myers-Briggs Type - so you make your best impact and ask others for the support that brings out their best
• Bridge other diversity dimensions - nationalities, cultures, racial/ethnic backgrounds, genders, neurodiversity, professions, age groups, etc - so a healthy mix of perspectives accelerates your traction
• Be aware of unconscious biases - so you counter risk-averse traps like bias against outliers, win/lose rivalries and underestimating people who rub you the wrong way

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Want to know your leadership impact - and see how your actions PowerUP the courage of the teams you mobilize? Want to be more intentional about the culture you are shaping and the way you accelerate adoption of new best practices and new standards of care?

This 360 feedback process will make you aware of how your leadership affects those around you - the higher-ups who delegate to you, the colleagues who support and co-ordinate with you and the executors you depend on after you delegate assignments.

Your Courage Coach will work with you to nominate the best raters - who can give you good feedback - and to build an Individual Development Plan with the results.

How to hire the talent you need to accelerate traction

If you ennoble effectively with diverse contributors, you're going to create conflict. And if you approach conflict with courage, you'll find it makes your network more effective at finding the best solutions, rather than settling for risk-averse compromises.

Here's how you can orchestrate conflict-resolution so diverse parties focus on outcomes and interests, rather than positions, egos and personalities. And so they look beyond risk-averse compromises to find good win-win-win solutions.