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Hosted by SparkEffect · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
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Most leadership podcasts talk about strategy. Courage to Advance talks about trust, the real, measurable kind that determines whether organizations survive disruption or get crushed by it.Hosted by Kim Bohr, President & CEO of SparkEffect, each episode features executives who are redesigning work from the inside out. Leaders who have rejected legacy systems, built human-centered cultures, and proven that bold leadership actually works. We go beyond the highlight reel into the messy, operational depth of how courageous leadership gets done.Backed by SparkEffect’s proprietary Trust in Turbulence research, every conversation connects real executive stories to the data on what actually makes organizations resilient. If you’re a senior leader who knows something has to change, this is where you’ll find the permission and the playbook to do it differently.
SparkEffect hosts Courage to Advance with Kim Bohr, a business show with 30 episodes published.
Only 2% of leaders believe their performance management process adds any real value. That is a problem, because the number one driver of profit growth in any company is people growth. When the system built to grow people
Most leaders are taught that apologizing is a legal risk and a sign of weakness. So they avoid the conversations that would repair a broken relationship at work, and the damage compounds. Jon Bui, J.D., makes the opposit
If you stepped away from your business tomorrow, not for a week or a quarter but for good, would it still run? Most owners cannot say yes, and on this episode of Courage to Advance, host Kim Bohr and Ted Wolf dig into wh
Senior leaders tend to hold two stories about Gen Z at once. One says they are lazy and entitled. The other says they are digital natives who will figure the rest out on their own. On this episode of Courage to Advance,
The confidence gap that holds women back in leadership doesn't start in the workplace. It starts around age 14, and most organizations spend years trying to coach the symptom without ever naming where it began. That's th
Trust is the one thing every leader says they want more of, and the one most are quietly getting wrong. The instinct is to build it through competence or charisma: prove yourself, earn people's confidence, move on. Then
Most organizations say they care about employee wellbeing. But when your therapist's office hours don't fit the windows your employer leaves open, when you're the only person trained to run a Friday report so you can nev
Most culture problems don't surprise anyone. That's the uncomfortable truth at the center of Scott McInnes's research - a study of Chief People Officers across Ireland that set out to identify what's actually blocking pr
Most leadership advice assumes everyone on your team is okay. What happens when they aren’t? That gap between caring deeply and not knowing how to help is where most leaders live right now. Dr. Gretchen Schmelzer names w
Kim Bohr, CEO of SparkEffect and host of Courage to Advance, sees it all the time: leaders who don’t think about professional visibility until they’re forced to. A layoff, a reorg, a pivot they didn’t plan for. And sudde
Most companies treat employee motivation like a personality trait. When engagement drops, the default assumption is that the employee isn't driven enough or doesn't care enough. But what if the problem isn't who you hire
Most leadership development programs don’t fail because the content is wrong. They fail because of what organizations do, and don’t do, the moment the program ends. Richard Mirabile, PhD, is a leadership development rese
What does it actually look like when a CEO spends years intentionally handing over the reins, and both leaders are willing to tell the whole story? This episode of Courage to Advance is different from any we’ve done befo
What if the most important skill for leading a technology transformation has nothing to do with technology? It's a question Kim Bohr has been asking for years. And when she met Bob Wallis, she found someone who had spent
We’ve spent years implementing HR technology to fix workplace problems that technology was never going to fix. Calli Bakken built a career inside that system, watched it fail, and came out the other side with a different
What if 70% of change initiatives are failing for the exact same reason and your AI rollout is next? Ted Wolf, founder of Guidewise AI, has spent decades building businesses and overseeing technology implementations, inc
What if your organization’s biggest people problems aren’t a skills issue — they’re an access issue? Only 2% of global CEOs have ever been CHROs. Dr. Suzi Potts spent 25 years watching family-owned businesses hit critica
Your policies are not failing because of the 5% who might abuse them, but because they quietly erode trust with the 95% who are doing their best work. When disruption hits, control-heavy policies put managers in an impos
Your leadership skills vanish when fight-or-flight kicks in. Learn how to build trust when your brain screams "run." For executives facing high-stakes pressure. Key Takeaways: Why technical competence is useless if you c
71% of employees experienced a crisis in the past 24 months, but only 36% of organizations emerged with strengthened trust. The difference? Leaders who understand that rebuilding trust requires listening, not fixing. Whe
Sarah Harris
journalist and PhD student in the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham · Accelerate Impact
1 appearance on this show
David Eliot
PhD candidate, author of Artificially Intelligent
1 appearance on this show
Mark Kaplan
Barbri
1 appearance on this show
Maria Ross
1 appearance on this show
Kim Bohr
SparkEffect
1 appearance on this show
Mike Humphries
Waldron
1 appearance on this show
Bob Wallis
61 Keys LLC
1 appearance on this show
Ted Wolf
Guidewise AI
1 appearance on this show
Mitchell Jeffery
Ember Collective
1 appearance on this show
Harry Pickens
Strategic NeuroRegulation Institute
1 appearance on this show
BJ Coleman
Pivotal Health Partners
1 appearance on this show
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