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Hosted by Amy Riley · business · EN · 128 episodes
This is where top leaders tell real stories about achieving extraordinary results and share practical advice and techniques you can immediately apply for your own success. This is where you will get inspired and take bold, courageous action. Host of The Courage of a Leader™, Amy Riley is a renowned keynote speaker, #1 international best-selling author and sought-after leadership consultant who has been transforming leaders – at all levels – for more than 2 decades.Guests on The Courage of a Leader™ are powerful, successful leaders who are passionate about authentic, engaging, difference-making leadership. Amy gets beyond the theory and dives deep with her guests about how things really work, so you walk away with tangible ideas to grow your influence, inspire your team, and get extraordinary results. Join us to step into the full power of your leadership and achieve what you care about most. Here’s where you’ll ignite The Courage of a Leader!To apply for the show or to book Amy
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The Courage of a Leader is hosted by Amy Riley. The show has published 128 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Courage in Action: When Things Don’t Go as Planned, Leading Through Setbacks" (22 September 2026, 29 minutes), "Courage in Action: How Exceptional Leaders Accelerate Trust" (8 September 2026, 25 minutes), and "Fearless Feedback: Say What Needs to Be Said Without Damaging the Relationship | Katie O’Brien Ceccarini" (18 August 2026, 37 minutes).
The Courage of a Leader publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 128 episodes.
Booking probability for The Courage of a Leader is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Courage of a Leader requires a Pod Score of 82 or higher. The Courage of a Leader's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Courage of a Leader are Business & Management Consulting. The Courage of a Leader has a business audience.
Amy Riley hosts The Courage of a Leader, a business show with 128 episodes published.
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Episode #128
What should we do as leaders when things don’t go according to plan? Setbacks are inevitable. How we respond to them shapes our credibility, our teams, and the leaders we become. In this episode, we explore five hard...
Episode #127
How can we build trust faster as leaders? Trust grows over time, yet we have more ability to accelerate it than we may realize. Sometimes, a single courageous action can change how someone experiences our leadership. We...
Episode #126
How do you give difficult feedback without damaging trust? Katie O’Brien Ceccarini, author of Fearless Feedback: Everything Managers Have Never Been Taught About Feedback and founder of Endurance Management Coaching...
Episode #125
We often treat burnout as a personal failure when it is really a warning that our demands have exceeded our available time, energy, and support. Burnout prevention specialist Sophie Anderson shares five courageous...
Episode #123
What if the biggest driver of employee engagement isn't charisma? Amy challenges one of leadership's most common misconceptions, showing why authenticity, presence, and intentional leadership inspire people far more...
Episode #122
Why do accountability systems fail even when roles and responsibilities seem clear? In this episode, we sit down with Robert Snyder, Founder and President of Innovation Elegance, LLC, to explore why most organizations...
Episode #121
<p>What if the hardest thing you ever face becomes the experience that shapes you into a stronger leader?</p><p>Steve Garraty shares how a cancer diagnosis at age 18 became one of the most defining experiences of his...
Episode #120
<p>In the second episode of the Courage in Action series, Amy explores the traits that define courageous leadership in today’s workplace. She challenges the idea that leadership is about having all the answers and...
Episode #119
<p>In this first episode of the new Courage in Action series, Amy answers some questions she receives from leaders and their teams about the reality of change, especially when it is unexpected or uncomfortable. She...
Episode #118
<p>Most leaders want change, but we often avoid the one place it has to start. Truth. </p><p>In this encore presentation of our conversation with David Johnson, we challenge the instinct to jump straight to vision and...
Episode #117
<p>This encore presentation revisits our conversation with Natasha Miller Williams, a speaker and writer who brings data and insight together to advance the conversation about inclusion in the workplace. Together we...
Episode #116
<p>International Women’s Day is more than a calendar moment. It is a leadership opportunity. In this episode, we challenge ourselves to move beyond performative gestures and celebrate in ways that actually build...
Episode #115
<p>Leadership often asks us to be steady, composed, and productive, even when real emotions are moving underneath. </p><p>This is an UNFILTERED compilation, in which we bring together some of the most powerful, raw and...
Episode #114
<p>Leadership often looks confident and composed from the outside. Inside, it can feel very different. </p><p>In this UNFILTERED compilation, we slow down and talk honestly about what leaders carry beneath the surface...
Episode #113
<p>As we look back on 2025, this conversation brings together five voices who helped shape how we think about leadership when things feel uncertain, human, and real. Russell Harvey, Genevieve Retzlaff, Pat Broe, Mary...
Episode #112
<p>Crisis and change have a way of revealing what truly drives leadership. In this episode, I explore how leading through uncertainty is less about control and more about clarity, trust, and intentional choice. I...
Episode #111
<p>What if one of the greatest challenges in leadership isn’t decision-making or pressure but loneliness? </p><p>In this Unfiltered Series conversation, leadership experts Amy Riley and Daphna Horowitz get real about...
Episode #110
<p>In this episode of UNFILTERED: Courageous Conversations about Anger and What your fire is trying to tell you, Amy and Daphna explore the misunderstood emotion of anger, an experience many of us are taught to hide or...
Episode #109
<p>We all want to do things well — to be responsible, stay on top of it, make sure nothing slips through the cracks. But when does that turn into control?</p><p>In this episode of UNFILTERED, Daphna Horowitz and Amy...
Episode #108
<p>Join us as we explore how courageous leadership helps us integrate technology with purpose instead of pressure. We look at leaders who chose clarity over complexity and used vision to guide innovation. Their success...
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