Courage to Advance with Kim Bohr
Parents become better employees—gaining empathy, resilience, and time management—but lack of support and biases like the motherhood penalty drive top talent away. This episode reveals hidden retention risks and practical strategies to keep your best people engaged.
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When Everyone You Trust Says Your Best Idea is a Mistake (opens the original)
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Nobody in Seattle would show the game. So Jen Barnes built a bar where every screen, every night, plays women’s sports, with no proof it would work and almost everyone telling her it was a stupid idea. Host Kim Bohr talks with Jen, founder and CEO of Rough & Tumble, about trusting your gut when the data has not caught up, why saying no became her growth strategy, and how she built a team that stays. As Jen puts it, there was no question in her mind that it would make it. Listen and subscribe to
A Life Shaped by Listening to Build Trust (opens the original)
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Most leaders are told to close the deal first and earn the relationship later. Witney Schneidman spent fifty years proving the reverse, and host Kim Bohr gets him to explain how trust is really built. A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and the author of This Africa Idea, Schneidman shares the habits behind a fifty-year career: listening before acting, building the relationship before the deal, and staying honest about what he does not yet know. SparkEffect’s researc
Why Leading People Through AI Comes Down to Trust (opens the original)
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Most companies trained their people on AI. Almost nobody is using it. Elayne Fluker tells host Kim Bohr why that gap is not about the tools, it is about trust. Elayne is a Certified AI Consultant and executive coach who spent 25 years riding disruption in media. She and Kim get into Human Nurture, her four-part approach to developing people through the AI transition so their trust, and their willingness to adopt, actually holds. She cites a DataCamp study that frames the stakes: 82% of organizat
The Real Driver of Profit Growth Isn't Your Strategy (opens the original)
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Only 2% of leaders trust their performance management, yet people growth drives profit more than anything else. On Courage to Advance, host Kim Bohr and leadership coach Mike Goldman fix a system Mike calls broken. Author of The Strength of Talent, Mike lays out his Talent Density Framework, why unclear expectations are unfair, why the CEO owns culture, and why coaching someone out of the wrong seat can be the kindest thing a leader can do. New episodes every second, third, and fourth Tuesday. S
The Apology That Rebuilds Trust After You Break It (opens the original)
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Jon Bui, J.D., an attorney, mediator, and founder of The Negotiated Apology Project, joins host Kim Bohr to make the case that apology is a trainable leadership skill, not the legal liability most leaders are taught to fear. He and Kim break down how to rebuild trust after it breaks, the difference between restitution that repairs and gestures that only perform, and why the conversations leaders avoid are the expensive ones. With one in five workers leaving over toxic culture and a single ignore
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