Thursday Luncheon: Liz Jolley, Founder, The School of Courage

Liz Jolley is a speaker, leadership coach, podcast host, and founder of The School of Courage™. After more than 20 years in the corporate energy industry, including leadership roles in innovation, culture, and organizational transformation, Liz now helps high-achieving professionals lead with more courage, clarity, and intention at work and home.

Her work focuses on the conversations and decisions that shape how people lead, collaborate, and live. Through her Power Question Framework™, Liz teaches leaders, teams, and individuals how to ask better questions, create stronger alignment, solve the right problem, and move from frustration to meaningful action.

Liz is also the host of The Great Leader, Great Mom podcast, where she explores leadership, emotional intelligence, work-life integration, tough conversations, decision-making, and the inner work required to create a life that works both professionally and personally.

Known for her practical, grounded, and relatable style, Liz brings together corporate leadership experience, coaching tools, and real-life examples to help audiences think differently, communicate more effectively, and lead themselves and others with greater intention.

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The Leadership Questions That Build Trust, Reduce Conflict, and Move People Forward

Most teams, boards, committees, and community groups are full of people who care deeply and want to do good work. But even well-intentioned people can get stuck in repeated conversations, unclear decisions, quiet frustration, and meetings where everyone nods but nothing really moves forward.

When people are not truly aligned, trust erodes, follow-through gets harder, and conflict becomes more personal. Learn how the questions leaders ask shape collaboration, build trust, reduce unnecessary conflict, and move people toward meaningful action.

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