Courage to Advance with Kim Bohr · SparkEffect

Find your people. Hear what courage actually costs.

Join leaders building organizational trust under pressure. Every week, get a new conversation from Courage to Advance with Kim Bohr, delivered straight to your inbox.

One email a week, the new episode, key takeaways, and the question Kim wishes more leaders were asking.
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Courage to Advance Season 2 with Kim Bohr
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Short, useful, and never promotional. The kind of email you'd actually forward to a peer.

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A new conversation,
every week
Kim sits down with senior leaders who've actually led through the hard part, not just consulted on it.
02
Key takeaways,
in plain language
The three or four things you can actually use on Monday, pulled from each episode and written for busy leaders.
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Tied to the SparkEffect Trust Study and our work with Fortune 1000 leaders. Insight first; everything else later.
Kim Bohr, President and CEO of SparkEffect
Host·President & CEO, SparkEffect

Why Kim. Why now.

Kim Bohr is the President and CEO of SparkEffect, a firm built on the conviction that business gets better from the inside out. Her work with leaders at Fortune 1000s, scaling startups, and mission-driven organizations sits at the intersection of trust, transformation, and the courage it takes to lead either one well.

Courage to Advance is where she brings practitioners who've actually done the hard part into one room, and asks the questions most podcasts don't. Not what worked, but what it cost, and what it built.

71%
of organizations face significant disruption in any three-year window
36%
emerge from disruption stronger than before
Read Kim's full bio at SparkEffect
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From the people in the room

Insight you can actually
use
on Monday.

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Bob Wallis
Ep. 14 · Trust Before Technology
"Most organizations focus almost entirely on the doing side of leadership while nearly ignoring the being side."
Richard Mirabile, PhD
Ep. 16 · Are You Doing Leadership or Being a Leader?
"Start early. Don't let it be a tragedy that brings succession to the front of your mind."
Mike Humphries
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