Apr 16, 2026
The Courage Lab with Dr. Margie Warrell, born at Google—Now Available for Teams and Organizations like Yours
When Dr. Margie Warrell keynoted at Google HQ, the conversation didn’t stop when she left the stage. Google brought Margie back as a Strategic Thought Partner to design and deliver a bespoke Courage Lab for executive teams.
That program is now available for your clients.
McKinsey research finds that leaders with a courage mindset are 2.4x more likely to outperform their peers. Yet most transformation efforts stall — not from a lack of strategy, but from hidden derailers: loss aversion, sunk cost bias, misalignment, and a persistent tendency to underestimate the real cost of inaction. The Courage Lab is built to surface and dismantle exactly those blockers.
It moves executive teams through three structured acts:
- Define: Build genuine cross-functional alignment around a compelling mission-grounded future — beyond safe bets and incremental goals
- Reframe: Challenge the risk narratives and organizational blind spots keeping teams stuck in “play not to lose” mode
- Act: Leave with a shared commitment charter, concrete decision frameworks, and individual next steps
Leaders don’t just leave inspired – they leave aligned, with a clear roadmap for action.
The program is a full day and can be tailored for executive offsites, leadership summits, and broader enterprise initiatives, with half-day and multi-day formats available depending on your client’s needs.
Grounded in Margie’s doctoral research, decades advising Fortune 500 C-suites and leading transformative programs, and her bestselling book The Courage Gap (2025), this is rigorous, research-backed work that lands powerfully with senior audiences.
To explore availability or customization, contact info@bigspeak.com.
Speaker

Dr. Margie Warrell