


She co-edited the New York Times best seller You are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame, Resilience, and the Black Experience (2021), with Tarana Burke.īrené is also the founder and CEO of The Daring Way – a teaching and certification program for helping professionals who want to facilitate her work on vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness.īrené lives in Houston with her husband, Steve, and their two children. (2018), Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (2012), The Gifts of Imperfection (2010), and I Thought It Was Just Me (2007). She gave the closing talk, Listening to Shame, at the 2012 TED Conference in Long Beach.īrené is the author of six #1 New York Times best sellers including Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021), Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Her TED talk The Power of Vulnerability is one of the top five most. Her 2010 TEDx Houston talk on the power of vulnerability is one of the most watched talks on TED.com, with over 58 million views. An insightful weekend workshop based on the research of Dr. She is also a visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business She has spent the past two decades studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.
