Principal Change Activation Partner, Center for Daring Leadership

The Opportunity

The Center for Daring Leadership (CDL) is a partnership between BetterUp and Brené Brown, focused on bringing the Dare to Lead methodology to large organizations through coaching, facilitation, and curriculum-based programs. As a Change Partner within CDL, you'll drive the change management strategies that turn program launches into lasting organizational shifts. You'll work directly with senior client leaders — helping them build belief, sustain momentum, and cascade transformation across their organizations. You bring the strategic range to architect a change plan and the communications craft to make every message land.

• Lead Change Strategy for Enterprise Deployments
• Audit existing CDL communications for effectiveness, usage, and audience fit — and build the benchmarks and feedback loops that will inform future work.
• Create reusable communication frameworks and templates (cascade emails, executive talking points, manager guidance) that can be adapted across clients without feeling off-the-shelf.
• Establish listening loops and use real-time signals to refine messaging and interventions as programs evolve.
• Build the playbook — you'll help define what great looks like within a function that is still taking shape.

What You'll Do

• Translate complex organizational and leadership challenges into clear, compelling change narratives that build belief and inspire action.
• Map stakeholders and cascade paths, identifying champions and skeptics, and designing strategies that build trust across complex, global organizations.
• Design communications that drive transformation, producing and directing high-quality deliverables across multiple channels (email, live events, digital platforms, executive forums).
• Equip managers and frontline leaders with toolkits, talking points, and coaching to act as multipliers of the Dare to Lead transformation.
• Develop platform communications that shift participant interactions from transactional to transformational — adapting Dare to Lead principles into messages that resonate with senior leaders and their teams.
• Build and sustain client partnerships, design account-specific launch narratives and engagement rhythms that establish belief early and sustain momentum through completion.
• Develop executive-voiced communications — including ghostwritten messages, talking points, and mid-program moments — that help senior sponsors show up with credibility and authenticity.
• Partner with CDL account leads to understand the strategic context, cultural landscape, and communication needs unique to each enterprise client.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in change management, organizational transformation, or human capital consulting — with a track record of leading complex, org-wide initiatives in large, global enterprises.
• Deep change management expertise — you know the fundamentals of transformation success and can speak fluently to change models, resistance management, and adoption frameworks, whether through formal certification or demonstrated equivalent experience on the job.
• Exceptional communications craft — skilled at architecting persuasive, human-centered communications strategies and guiding others in developing stakeholder-targeted storytelling that moves hearts and minds.
• Campaign strategy and execution chops — you think like a marketer, identify key stakeholder groups and their unique needs, and tailor campaigns across communications, learning, and behavior change to drive measurable adoption.
• Organizational complexity and consultative acumen — multiple at-bats in large, global organizations across multiple languages and cultures. You parachute in, synthesize context quickly, build trust, and move things forward without a formal mandate.
• A builder's mindset — you identify and proliferate best practices, build scalable and teachable frameworks, and role-model a "teach, learn, teach" approach. You thrive in ambiguity and don't need templates to get started.
• Resilience and adaptability across the intensity spikes and quieter sustain phases that come with enterprise program cycles.
• AI fluency and judgment — you remove barriers to AI adoption, drive cultural change that embraces continuous reinvention, and exercise exceptional judgment in when to simplify and when to stretch. You embody "Do Less, Deliver More."
• Executive ghostwriting and long-form editorial skills are a plus.

Benefits

• Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member
• A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible paid time off
• All federal/statutory holidays observed
• 4 BetterUp Inner Workdays
• 5 Volunteer Days to give back
• Learning and Development stipend
• Company wide Summer & Winter breaks
• Year-round charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp
• 401(k) self contribution

Pay

• New York City and San Francisco/Bay Area: $204,000 - $255,000
• Austin and D.C. Area: $183,600 - $229,500

Schedule

We are a hybrid company with a focus on in-person collaboration when necessary. Employees are expected to be available to work from one of our office hubs at least two days per week, or eight days per month. Our US hub locations include: Austin, TX; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; and the Washington, DC metro area. If this is a role based in Europe, our Europe hub locations are London, UK and Amsterdam, NL.