Insights

Bold Isn’t Loud: Why Women Leaders Have the Wrong Definition

by Windy Borman | May 20, 2026 | B.R.A.V.E. Framework, Bold Leadership, Executive Storytelling | 0 Comments

Most women leaders have been shown the wrong model of bold their entire careers. Here’s the reframe that changes everything — and why specificity beats volume every time.

What BOLD Actually Means in Leadership (And What It Doesn’t)

by Windy Borman | May 14, 2026 | B.R.A.V.E. Framework, Bold Leadership, Executive Storytelling | 0 Comments

Bold leadership for women isn’t about volume — it’s about architecture. Here’s what BOLD actually means, why most women have the wrong definition, and the free framework to fix it.

The B.R.A.V.E. Framework: The Executive Storytelling Architecture That Came from the Cutting Room Floor

by Windy Borman | April 3, 2026 | B.R.A.V.E. Framework, Executive Storytelling, Narrative Architect | 0 Comments

Stop polishing your story and start architecting it. The B.R.A.V.E. Framework™ is the repeatable structure that gets the real you from the Green Room to the mic.

ELEPHANTS LOSE LIMBS AND LIVES IN THAILAND

Oct 8, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director, Press Release

D.V.A. Productions, in association with Indiewood Pictures, currently in production on the powerful feature-length documentary film, “The Eyes of Thailand”, about the plight of Asian Elephants grossly injured and disfigured from stepping on forgotten landmines buried along the Thai-Myanmar border, will attend and film November’s International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)’s Youth Leaders Forum in Vientiane, Laos.

ACTION ALERT: Can you help us film in Thailand & Laos?

Oct 4, 2010 | Action Alert, Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director

Can you help Director Windy Borman film in Thailand & Laos, Oct 28 – Nov 13, 2010? All donations are tax-deductible.

Update on Boonmee, FAE’s newest landmine survivor

Sep 13, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from Soraida and FAE, Notes from the Director

Boonmee is a 10-year old Thai elephant who stepped on a landmine on September 11, 2010 after being taken across the border into Burma to haul logs with her mother. She arrived at FAE’s Elephant Hospital on September 13, 2010.

BREAKING NEWS: Another elephant landmine victim arrives at FAE

Sep 13, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director

Boonmee (10) is the fourth elephant landmine survivor at FAE’s Elephant Hospital. She joins Mae ka pae (22), Motala (49) and Baby Mosha (5). Motala and Mosha each received a prosthetic limb from the Prostheses Foundation in 2009, a process Windy Borman filmed for “The Eyes of Thailand” documentary.

Lessons learned from the Mine Ban Treaty

Sep 13, 2010 | DVA Productions Blog, Media Productions Blog, Notes from the Director

After three years and two new international conventions have entered into force that bear particular relevance to the mine ban community, the ICBL reflects on the lessons learned and how we can apply them to cluster bomb removal–the next chapter of creating a mine-free world.