Leadership and Team Advisor | BraveCore
Advisor to F500s I Ex-Apple, Ex-Disney


Most teams are capable, experienced, and full of untapped creativity. But without the right system, their intelligence stays scattered across people, functions, and meetings. The result is work that falls short of what it could become.
The Braintrust Method gives leaders and teams a practical system to build new products, platforms, and AI solutions — together.
Across four 90-minute sessions, what you'll walk away with:
The conviction of a leader who can make any team think bigger
A repeatable co-creation system you can apply to real work
A practical method for building stronger ideas together
Innovation framework to shift from meeting culture to braintrust culture
Facilitated by Chris Deaver and Ian Clawson, co-authors of Brave Together. Their co-creation work helped scale AirPods Pro into a $24B business, launch billion-dollar incubators at Apple and Dell, and drive Disney transformations inspired by Pixar's Braintrust approach. Their work has been featured in Next Big Idea Club, Fast Company, Forbes, Big Think, and The Wall Street Journal.
Backed by outcomes connected to co-creative leadership:
↑2.4x performance | ↓40% turnover | +10x co-creation growth
Use Braintrusts to give your team a shared approach for surfacing truth, shaping stronger ideas, and owning better work.
See why traditional collaboration breaks down and what teams actually need.
Explore what makes a Braintrust different from a meeting, committee, or working group.
Identify where your team’s intelligence can get trapped inside roles, hierarchy, or habits.
Anchor Braintrusts in real challenges, decisions, opportunities, and tensions.
Practice reframing experiences with a creative question, not just status updates.
Use the “Right 3” to choose who belongs and create focus, candor, and momentum.
Harness the Four Waves to move from confusion to clarity and shared creation.
Apply the co-creation method to Identify, Ideate, Iterate, and Integrate.
Turn the best thinking in the room into a clear, useful next step.
Collaborate in a small Braintrust to improve how communication flows inside a team.
Practice pressure testing ideas against real team dynamics, friction, and constraints.
Shape a simple 30-day Braintrust plan and refine it through feedback.
Use the Braintrust Diagnostic to see where co-creation is strong or stuck.
Identify where your team needs more clarity, candor, ownership, or rhythm.
Build a repeatable way to turn important conversations into better work.

Leadership Advisor | Team Facilitator | Co-Author of Brave Together

Co-Founder & Advisor to F500s I Ex-Apple & Disney I Co-Author, Brave Together
Mid-level, senior leaders in large orgs who are done with team friction and ready to lead differently--and grow into bigger rooms.
Product leaders and founders scaling fast who need a proven system for collective intelligence before politics and bureaucracy take over.
Innovation, AI, and transformation leads whose job is making teams think bigger and need a method that actually delivers.
Live sessions
Learn directly from Ian Clawson & Chris Deaver in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Two-part braintrust build lab
A hands-on lab where you practice the Braintrust Method in two parts: generating better ideas together and strengthening them through real-world feedback.
1:1 personalized coaching session
A focused coaching session scheduled during the course to help you apply the Braintrust Method to your team, leadership challenge, or real work context.
A braintrust diagnostic tool
A practical tool to assess where your team’s co-creation is strong, where it is stuck, and what to improve next.
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Live sessions
6 hrs
4 live sessions | 90 mins each | Delivered over two weeks
Tue, Aug 4
5:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
Thu, Aug 6
5:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
Tue, Aug 11
5:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
Thu, Aug 13
5:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
Join the co-creation movement.

Marshall Goldsmith
Helps leaders explore their creativity and creatives to expand their leadership.

Randy Nelson
An exhilarating exploration of genuine collaboration, where every voice matters and every idea is a potential catalyst for transformation.

Daniel Pink
An entirely new experience. Discover how to work creatively together.

Fast Company
This will transform your business.

Inc. Magazine
Deaver and Clawson know a thing or two, and a lot more, about what works best in the workplace.

Forbes
Maven for Teams
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