Transforming Organizational Performance Through Courageous Leadership
An Enterprise and Executive Advisory to Solve the World's Most Pressing Business, Culture and Leadership Challenges
About the Institute for Corporate Courage
Our Vision
Our Leadership
Our Approach
The Institute for Corporate Courage is where the next generation of business leadership is being built.
Our vision is to become the recognized authority on future-ready leadership and organizational performance. ICC is equipping leaders and organizations to succeed in a world defined by constant change, complexity and rising expectations.
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The Institute for Corporate Courage is where the next generation of business leadership is being built.
Our vision is to become the recognized authority on future-ready leadership and organizational performance. ICC is equipping leaders and organizations to succeed in a world defined by constant change, complexity and rising expectations.
ICC identifies and removes the commitment barriers that stand between strategy and results. We help leaders build the courage, capability and organizational conditions needed to turn ambition into action and potential into measurable performance.
We envision organizations where leadership accelerates growth, strengthens culture, unlocks talent and creates high-performance outcomes for all.
Building courageous leaders. Advancing organizational performance. Shaping what comes next.on leadership and organizational performance at the intersection of people and performance.
ICC prepares leaders and organizations for what comes next. We identify and remove the commitment barriers that prevent organizations from turning strategy into action, talent into performance, and leadership intent into measurable results.
Through future-ready leadership, organizational insight and practical solutions, we help organizations build the leadership capability, cultures and operating environments required to achieve high-performance outcomes for all.
Courage is the catalyst. Performance is the outcome.we strive to be a recognized resource for excellence in organizational behavior, leadership and culture research and to make a positive impact from our work in service to greater society.
Our Approach
Our Leadership
Our Approach
At the Institute for Corporate Courage, we take a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to our research projects, advisory, organizational strategy and service programming. We believe that accountability for results can positively impact better corporate cultures and experiences. By bringing together experts from different fields,
At the Institute for Corporate Courage, we take a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to our research projects, advisory, organizational strategy and service programming. We believe that accountability for results can positively impact better corporate cultures and experiences. By bringing together experts from different fields, we develop richly innovative, practical solutions to complex problems that might not be possible through traditional research methods. In challenging times, new methods can unify and drive an informed business strategy.
We turn leadership potential into organizational performance.
ICC works at the intersection of leadership, people, strategy and performance, combining evidence-based insight with the realities leaders face every day.
Our approach begins with critical questions: What is standing between the organization and the performance it needs to achieve? What keeps talented people from their own optimized potential? What should leaders do?
We uncover the commitment barriers - behaviors, systems, capabilities, decisions and cultural conditions—that slow execution and limit performance. We then work with leaders to translate insight into action through leadership development, executive advisory, organizational strategy, research and facilitated experiences.
Rather than treating leadership development as an isolated learning event, ICC connects leadership directly to business priorities, organizational capability and measurable outcomes.
The result is leadership that is more courageous, organizations that are more adaptable, and people who are better equipped to perform—now and into the future.
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Our Leadership
Our Leadership
Our Leadership
Built on nearly three decades of leadership insight. Designed for what comes next.
Founded in 1996, the Institute for Corporate Courage has evolved from a forum for courageous conversations and thought leadership into an institute focused on one of business's most consequential challenges: building leaders and organizations capable of per
Built on nearly three decades of leadership insight. Designed for what comes next.
Founded in 1996, the Institute for Corporate Courage has evolved from a forum for courageous conversations and thought leadership into an institute focused on one of business's most consequential challenges: building leaders and organizations capable of performing in a rapidly changing world.
ICC brings together accomplished executives, business leaders, scholars, strategists and practitioners who understand leadership from multiple perspectives—and, importantly, understand the difference between studying leadership and leading organizations through consequential change.
Our leadership philosophy is grounded in the belief that tomorrow's organizations require more than traditional management capability. They need leaders with the courage to challenge assumptions, make difficult decisions, mobilize people, navigate complexity and convert strategy into performance.
Through our leadership, advisors and expert network, ICC brings together enterprise experience, evidence-based thinking and practical execution to help build the next generation of leaders—and the high-performing organizations they will lead.
Led by an award-winning team of leadership strategists, organizational transformation experts, and trusted advisors, the Institute for Corporate Courage continues to shape the next generation of enterprise leadership—equipping organizations not merely to respond to change, but to define it.
ICC Advisory Board
Liz Barentzen, Esq
Liz Barentzen, Esq
Liz Barentzen, Esq
A Senior Executive with Expansive Background in DEI, HR Leadership, Change Management, Operations Management & Law — JD, ACC with extensive research on what the Next Gen seeks in corporate experience and how alignment between the performative and lived experiences within organization must be realized. Liz is the Vice President Operations and Talent Initiatives for the Center for Audit Quality.
Ken Bouyer
Liz Barentzen, Esq
Liz Barentzen, Esq
EY Americas Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Recruiting Leader| Author| As the Americas Director of Inclusiveness Recruiting, Ken is an accomplished public speaker, and established industry resource cited regularly in major media outlets on various diversity and inclusiveness topics.
Richard Caturano
Liz Barentzen, Esq
Richard Caturano
Richard Caturano is the pioneering past Chairman o f the AICPA and a member (retired) of the RSM leadership team.. He was among the first professionals and enterprise leaders to call for corporate DEI programming and investment as a business imperative - against opposition. A man of innumerable honors and recognitions, his mission vision and values are evidenced by action against inequity in every aspect of business.
Joe Briggs Esq.
Kimberly Ellison Taylor
Richard Caturano
Global Head of Equity Strategies And Initiatives for Amazon. Over 15 years of senior leadership experience working in legislative advocacy and governmental relations for both public and private sector entities. A law professor and key thought leader on the future of corporate courage.
Kimberly Ellison Taylor
Kimberly Ellison Taylor
Kimberly Ellison Taylor
Board Director Mutual of Omaha, US Bank, Marathon Petroleum. Qualified Financial Expert: Governance, Risk, Compliance, Internal/External Audit, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, 20 years Board Experience, Operational Experience, Global Leadership to know. Past Chair, AICPA.
Guylaine St. Juste
Kimberly Ellison Taylor
Kimberly Ellison Taylor
NABA, Inc. CEO creating a platform that empowers and mobilize Black business and accounting professionals to ensure equitable representation at all levels advocating for over 200,000 professionals. 25 years in the banking industry in various leadership roles most recently as the Business Banking Virginia Market Executive at Capital One Bank.
ICC Subject Matter Expert Contributors
Dr. Tim Clark
Stephen M.R. Covey
Stephen M.R. Covey
Oxford-trained social scientist, CEO of LeaderFactor, HBR contributor, author of "The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety," cohost of The Leader Factor podcast designed the leading approach to Psychological Safety and a foremost voice on the newest approaches to corporate courage.
Stephen M.R. Covey
Stephen M.R. Covey
Stephen M.R. Covey
Author of "The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything" and compelling speaker on the subject of corporate effectiveness with trust at the foundation. He is the co-founder and CEO of a company called CoveyLink Worldwide and former president and CEO of Covey Leadership Center.
Kelly MacDonald
Stephen M.R. Covey
Dr. J. Bruce Stewart
Kelly McDonald is considered one of the nation’s top experts in diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I), leadership, marketing and sales to people “not like you”, consumer trends, and leveraging the customer experience. Kelly is a 4X bestselling author and renowned professional speaker. She is also the founder of McDonald Marketing, which has twice been named one of the “Top Ad Agencies in the U.S.” by Advertising Age magazine and ranked as one of the fastest-growing independently-owned companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine
Dr. J. Bruce Stewart
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary
Dr. J. Bruce Stewart
Author, professor and speaker, formerly the Deputy Director Training, Compliance, and Strategic Initiatives in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and was responsible for implementation of President Obama’s Executive Order on Diversity and Inclusion. Designed, the first-ever government-wide diversity and inclusion strategic plan and was the chief architect of The New IQ and the 6-step change management process course the first-ever government-wide diversity and inclusion accountability audit process known as Feedback Assistance Roundtables (FARs) advancements.
Suri Suriender
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary
Mr. Surinder is co-founder and CEO of CTR Factor, a certified woman-owned, minority-owned professional services firm in the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) space for the past 14 years. At CTR Factor, he has served 225 companies in 21 different sectors, including Crowe Horwath, PwC, Prudential, Voya, Mass Mutual, Pixar, Walmart, & Disney, and has been Chief Learning Officer at Kaleidoscope & ALPFA. His work serves a broad US & international footprint, including England, Europe, Africa, Canada, India and the Middle East. His experience spans 33 years as an executive, consultant, board member, author, entrepreneur & professor.
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary
Dr. Stephanie Creary is an assistant professor of management and faculty fellow of the Coalition for Equity & Opportunity (CEO) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She conducts research on the topics of identity, diversity and inclusion, and relationships across differences (e.g., allyship and sponsorship). She also shares corporate insights on the following topics:
- Building stronger relationships in the workplace among people from different backgrounds (allyship, sponsorship)
- Improving leader engagement in diversity, equity, and inclusion work
- Creating evidence-based diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies