Join Giselle Corbie, MD, MSc, Senior Vice Provost and Kenan Distinguished Professor, as she leads this interactive 60-minute session, Brave Conversations – Building Fearless Teams Through Conscious Leadership. This session will explore how to create psychological safety while having courageous conversations that transform relationships and drive results. Participants will learn how individual communication practices and organizational culture intersect to enable honest dialogue, productive                                                                                conflict, and continuous learning.

   Learning Objectives

1. Build psychological safety as the foundation for fierce conversations – Understand how leader behaviors create or destroy the safety needed for open communication and learn to recognize the four stages of the fearless organization.
2. Navigate conflict consciously – Shift from reactive patterns to curious, open dialogue using frameworks from conscious leadership while maintaining the trust and safety that enables truth-telling.
3. Apply practical tools immediately – Leave with concrete techniques for asking good questions, framing difficult conversations, and creating conditions where teams speak up, challenge constructively, and learn from failure.

 Target Audience: All SOM faculty and staff

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Speaker

Giselle Corbie, MD, MSc

Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine

Accreditation Statement

The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Statement

The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.