Brooke Deterline Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000

Brooke Deterline is the CEO of Courageous Leadership, LLC, an organization dedicated to helping boards, executives, and teams develop the understanding and skills to act with ethical courage and ingenuity in the face of complex social and business challenges. Drawing from her experience as the founding Corporate Director for the Heroic Imagination Project with Dr. Phil Zimbardo, she integrates social and cognitive psychology with a strategic focus, emphasizing leadership excellence, inclusion, empowerment, and collaboration. Previously, Deterline co-founded Street Smart IR, a San Francisco-based investor relations firm, focusing on leadership candor and credibility. She also served as a journalist at SmartMoney magazine and is a trained mediator. Her work centers on building positive relationships, identifying and addressing systemic challenges that hinder collaboration, and fostering structural, team, and individual patterns that support long-term success. Deterline has a passion for working with multicultural teams and organizations focused on making a difference. She has completed numerous courses in leadership, multicultural facilitation, and social entrepreneurship, including certifications in corporate social responsibility and corporate board training at Berkeley’s Haas School, mediation training at the Justice Center of Atlanta, and executive finance at Stanford. Recently, she completed an intensive professional course on Positive Neuroplasticity with Dr. Rick Hanson. As a sought-after speaker, Deterline's talks are highly interactive, compelling, and effective. She provides audiences with evidence-based, easily applicable tools to address non-productive team behaviors that can lead to poor decisions under pressure, corporate missteps, and financial loss. Her clients include organizations such as Google, Kaiser Permanente, Columbia University Medical Center, MIT Sloan Management, and the Australian Government. Deterline's work is grounded in the belief that fostering ethical courage and collaboration leads to healthier, more resilient organizations and communities. Through her leadership and expertise, she continues to inspire individuals and teams to act with integrity and purpose in the face of challenges.