S4-Episode 1-Trusted to Change - Kim Bohr
From Calm and Confident Leader Podcast by Jason Stonehouse
January 20, 2026 · 38 min · Season 4 · Episode 1
About this episode
In this episode, Jason Stonehouse interviews Kim Bohr about the importance of trust in driving innovation and how leaders can foster a culture that encourages experimentation and learning from failure.
What if the biggest barrier to innovation in your organization isn't a lack of ideas but a lack of trust? Most leaders say they want change. They want innovation, creativity, teams that take initiative. But when someone actually steps up to try something new, the response is usually some version of "Wait, did you get approval for that?" We've created systems that demand permission slips for experimentation, and then we wonder why nothing actually changes. On this episode, host Jason Stonehouse interviews Kim Bohr, President and COO of SparkEffect, architect of the Trust Elasticity framework, and a leader with over 25 years of experience guiding organizations through leadership transitions, AI rollouts, and messy restructures. Kim helps executive teams lead through disruption without losing their people in the process, and she doesn't deal in theory or aspirational vision statements. She's all about what actually works when you're trying to shift culture, build trust, and create space for people to fail forward without getting crushed. Jason and Kim dig into why so many change initiatives collapse under their own weight, what it really takes to move from talking about…
People in this episode
Host: Jason Stonehouse
Guest: Kim Bohr
Topics covered
- innovation
- trust
- leadership
- organizational change
- culture
Keywords
- Trust Elasticity framework
- failure
- micromanagement
- change initiatives
Mentioned in this episode
Products: SparkEffect
Books & works: Trusted to Change, Courage to Advance
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