The Brave Proximity Library
A free workbook for every episode — diagnostic tools, scripts, worksheets,
and permission slips for leaders navigating real corporate culture.
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S1 E17 - The Culture Heist Playbook
Ten micro-heists, a risk continuum canvas, and the system architect's audit. No coalition required.
S1 E14 - The Career Mobility Audit
Diagnose your holding pattern, map your transferable genius, and build the case for your next move — on your terms
S1 E11 - The Truth-Teller's Toolkit
Assess how filtered the truth is at the top of your organisation, introduce drafty work, and deliver the unvarnished version upward.
S1 E8 - The Burnout Proximity Audit
Find out if your leadership pipeline is actually a burnout track — and identify the silent heroes who are about to walk out the door.
S1 E5 - The Transformation Reality Check
Audit the language your organisation uses during hard changes — and get the scripts for being the leader who says the real thing.
S1 E2 - The Performance Audit
Audit the gap between the leader you perform and the leader you actually are — and get the language for showing up as yourself.
S1 E16 - The Brave Conversation Blueprint
Assess your truth-telling conditions, get the disarming scripts, and build structures that make honesty a workflow — not an act of courage.
S1 E13 - The Purgatory Worksheet
Who are you when the title disappears? A reflection tool for the space between one chapter and the next — with guest Geoff Curtis.
S1 E10 - The Signal Audit
Identify whether your organisation is using data to make decisions or delay them — and reclaim judgment as a leadership skill.
S1 E7 - The Low-Value Work Audit
Name the tasks nobody actually needs, get the deletion scripts, and redirect your team's energy toward the work that moves the mission.
S1 E4 - The Visibility Pivot
Move from performing on LinkedIn to building real alliances — and audit whether your visibility is working for you or just exposing you.
S1 E1 - The Silence Isn't Neutral Workbook
Examine the silence you've been calling professionalism — and commit to the one specific thing you'll say in the next seven days.
S1 E15 - The Managing Up Audit
Score your invisible labor load, get three word-for-word upward feedback scripts, and decide what you want to do about it.
S1 E12 - The Attunement Audit
Separate performing authenticity from practicing it — and build the conditions where bringing your whole self is actually safe to try.
S1 E9 - The Storytelling Audit
Diagnose your deck dependency, learn the four-part story architecture, and commit to the presentation that replaces ten slides.
S1 E6 - The Accountability Audit
Expose the toxic promotion cycle, surface the silent heroes absorbing the damage, and start measuring the 'how' — not just the 'what.'
S1 E3 - The Proximity Audit
Map the isolation in your leadership, find the human-centered allies already around you, and build the connections that make brave leadership sustainable.
S1 E0 - Breaking the Silence
Name the elephants. Start the conversation you've been delaying. Take the first step toward leading from proximity rather than performance.