Candace Doby, founder of The Can-Do Company, is a leadership communication strategist, author of A Cool Girl’s Guide To Courage, professional speaker and courage coach. She partners with organizations to create a culture of courage where employees spend less time and energy censoring and hiding themselves and more time performing at their highest potential.

Her work on courageous communication and leadership has been featured on MSNBC, NPR, TEDx and more.

Candace combines a decade of research on courage with her experiences traveling the world solo and a 16-year, award-winning marketing career — much of which was spent leading teams at Chipotle. This unique combination equips her with the actionable strategies she has shared with leaders across the globe to help them and their teams courageously speak up, step up and show up at work.

She is the creator of The Courage Hotline podcast, host of The Own Your Brilliance retreat and owner of Pep Talker greeting cards, available online and in select stores.

Candace holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communications and a master’s degree in Technology and Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also ran track.