Brooke Deterline Email & Phone Number

Brooke has spent her career working with colleagues, teams and organizations to positively affect organizational culture, equity and engagement. As CEO of Courageous Leadership, Brooke and her colleagues use evidence-based tools to help people develop the understanding and skills to act with ethical courage and ingenuity to overcome complex challenges together. Influenced by her work with Dr Phil Zimbardo at Stanford, Brooke combines social and cognitive psychology and a strategic focus with a passion for equitable and inspiring relationships and systems and positive societal impact. Previously, Brooke co-founded Street Smart IR, a San Francisco-based investor relations firm, focusing on leadership candor and credibility. A former journalist at SmartMoney magazine and trained mediator, she focuses on building positive relationships, surfacing individual and systemic challenges that interfere with engagement, collaboration and powerful outcomes. She helps teams achieve structural, team, and individual patterns that support long-term learning, connection and inspired action. Brooke completed an intensive professional course on Positive Neuroplasticity with Rick Hanson, PhD. Brooke has also completed numerous courses in psychology and organizational effectiveness, psychological safety, compassion cultivation, systemic change, equitable relationship dynamics and systems, leadership, multi-cultural facilitation and social entrepreneurship. She has certifications in Social Fitness (TM) a cognitive behavioral protocol, corporate board training at Berkeley’s Haas School, mediation training at the Justice Center of Atlanta, Brooklyn Mediation Center and Community Boards, and executive finance at Stanford. Brooke is blessed to have the work of her dreams and family, colleagues and beloved community that inspire learning, courage and joy.

Listed skills include Strategy, Leadership, Organizational Development, Training, and 30 others.