What do you dream for your leadership?
Where are you leading? Who are you becoming as a leader?
Courageous leadership isn't about titles or how many people follow you, it's about leading with clarity, alignment, and the courage to define leadership on your own terms.
Courageous leadership begins when reflection meets access.
The Building Courageous Leadership Coaching Grant (formerly the Dreams Liberation Fund) was created by Liberated Development founder Danielle N. Davis to support leaders who are in a season of building or rebuilding their leadership, whether they’re early in their careers discovering their voice or in transition reimagining what authentic leadership looks like for them now.
This grant exists to close a gap. Too often, access to coaching is limited to those who already have institutional support, leaving early-career and transitional leaders without the space or resources to pause, reflect, and grow. The Building Courageous Leadership Coaching Grant offers recipients the time, space, and guided reflection to intentionally shape their leadership rather than defaulting to what they’ve seen modeled around them.
You can’t build new leadership by following old models.
"I created this grant because I know what it feels like to lead from misalignment—to perform leadership instead of living it. For years, I followed all the models, played the part, and climbed the ladder, but it came at the cost of authenticity and joy. When I finally began leading as myself, everything changed. This grant exists to offer others what I once needed: space, support, and courage to build leadership that's real, not rehearsed." — Danielle N. Davis, Founder & Principal, Liberated Development