Keynote Speeches
& Workshops by
Ira Chaleff
- Intelligent Disobedience applied to Child Development and Safety
- Applying Intelligent Disobedience To Workplace Safety
- Intelligent Disobedience in the Army
- Train the Trainer, Brussels
- Follow Courageously: What Does it Mean To Me
- On Intelligent Disobedience
- Application of Intelligent Disobedience to child safety and development
- The Honor of Courageous Followership
- Leading and Following Through Tango
- Followership: The Evolution of a Leader
Intelligent Disobedience applied to Child Development and Safety
Keynote speech by Ira Chaleff
CFA Institute, Charlottesville, VA
October 1, 2019

Applying Intelligent Disobedience to Workplace Safety
Keynote speech by Ira Chaleff
British Columbia, Canada
May 16, 2019
All Segments:
- Introduction to Intelligent Disobedience
- Definitions and the Nurse’s Dilemma
- Harm Prevention
- Authority Structures and Relationships
- Cultural Obedience and Pressures on Chain of Command
- Assertive vs Mitigating Language
- Workers’ Accountability
- Intelligent Response to Dissent
- Bring Intelligent Disobedience Home
Intelligent Disobedience in the Army
The Centre for Army Leadership
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK
October 4, 2017
Short clip
Follow Courageously: What Does it Mean To Me
The Bureau of Consular Affairs
Leadership Speaker Series
USA Department of State
January 5,2012
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Ira Chaleff giving keynote address to 500 teachers from 180 schools and 24 Asian countries on the application of Intelligent Disobedience to child safety and development.
Examining how children are taught to behave authority at all times, and need tools for saying “no” if what they are told to do is unsafe.