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SparkEffect

Name: SparkEffect
Address: 801 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98104, US
Telephone: +12064128300

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SparkEffect helps organizations, leaders, and employees build trust and navigate change with confidence.

Our services span leadership development, executive coaching, career transition, and board-level advising.

10/13/2026

Our very own Kristie Wi******er took the stage at DisruptHR Las Vegas for a talk titled “How to Own the Oh Sh*t! Moments of Your Career,” and she owned every second of it!

Kristie knows career plot twists firsthand, and she turned hers into something the whole room could learn from. Oh, and the pair of sparkly boots? Everyone loved them. 👢✨

We are so proud of you, Kristie. The full talk comes back to us soon, and we cannot wait to share it.

Thank you to DisruptHR Las Vegas for having her!

10/08/2026

Ten cities. Four time zones. One team.

We spend our days helping leaders and organizations through the moments that define them, like stepping into a bigger role, leading through change, or building a stronger bench for the future. That work only happens because of the people behind it, and we don’t talk about them nearly enough.

Most of us have never shared an office. We’re spread from Seattle to Las Vegas to Nashville to the South Carolina coast, and somehow it still feels like a team that sits right next to each other. Trust gets built in a lot of ways. For us, it’s built call by call, in the way people show up for each other and for our clients, no matter what time it is where they are.

Every pin is a place we call home. Some of them, we share. Over the coming months, we’re going to bring you along to meet the people behind every one.

We think you’ll like them as much as we do.

First stop... Tucson... 👀

10/06/2026

Training works great right up until the leader walks back into a team that wasn't in the room. 🚪

Swipe for what changes when everyone is in it together. 👉

2027 development plans are being built right now 🗓️ If yours is on your desk, we'd love to talk it through. Our one-page program overview is on our website, link's in our profile.

09/29/2026

Our CEO & President, Kim Bohr, took the stage at DisruptHR Bend in front of over 130 people, with Hunter Nelson right there alongside her, cheering her on and getting to know the room himself.

Talk was titled "Credibility Has a Score... Are You Afraid to Look?" and she owned every second of it! 🌟 The full version comes back to us in a couple of weeks, and we cannot wait to share it.

Thank you to DisruptHR Bend for having us!

09/24/2026

Most organizations have a plan for the big disruptions: mergers, layoffs, market downturns. Fewer have a plan for the disruption that just keeps happening, the kind that shows up in day-to-day work rather than the org chart.

Our newest research looked at what actually separates the organizations that come out ahead. 😉 Three findings stood out, and none of them are what most leadership teams assume.

The full 2026 Trust Report has the data behind all three. Grab it here: https://info.sparkeffect.com/trust

09/18/2026

Last month, SparkEffect was in Phoenix for a CHO AZ session on AI's real impact on HR. Jaime Navarro was there, and gave this room an early look at the trust research, weeks before anyone else saw it! 🤭

But it wasn't just a presentation. It was a room full of HR and people leaders talking candidly about what they're actually seeing in their own organizations, and connecting with each other over it.

The panel brought real expertise into it too: Laura Frederickson, CHRO Advisor and Founder of Aurevia HR; Ron McCarthy, COO at Horizon Recovery; and Lesjuné Aaron, Head of People at Dassian, each bringing a different angle on how AI is actually showing up inside their organizations.

This week, that research opened up to everyone: the full 2026 findings are live now.

Sessions like this don't happen without Kristie Wi******er, who runs the AZ CHO Group and keeps this community coming back. 👏

And if you're an HR leader in Arizona looking for a room like this one, real conversation, real peers, this is it. Reach out to Kristie to learn more about CHO Group membership.

09/15/2026

Trust in Turbulence™: our 2026 State of Organizational Trust™ paper just went live.

85% of employees experienced genuine disruption in the last two years, up from 71% in 2025. Trust held together wherever organizations stepped up, and slipped everywhere else.

Comment “report” below, and we’ll send you the link.

09/09/2026

There's a moment in this episode where Jen Barnes says the quiet part out loud: she wasn't sure it would work. Not the bar, not the bet on an entire audience nobody had built a business model around, none of it. She built Rough & Tumble anyway, because waiting for someone else to prove women's sports fans would show up meant waiting forever, and forever wasn't an option she was willing to give herself.

Here's the part people don't talk about enough. Courage doesn't look like confidence from the inside. It looks like doing the thing while your stomach is still in knots, because you've decided the fear doesn't get a vote.

On this episode of Courage to Advance, Jen Barnes sits down with Kim Bohr and gets into the parts that don't usually make it into the founder story: the nights she second-guessed the whole idea, what it actually felt like to have banks and "experts" tell her to wait for proof that didn't exist yet, and the moment she stopped asking for permission and just built the thing.

This isn't only a story about a bar. It's about the decision every one of us eventually has to make, the one where nobody can hand you the data, and you have to move on conviction alone. Jen's version of that decision just happens to have a scoreboard and a packed room behind it.

Hit play. This is one of those conversations you'll want to hear in her own words, not ours.

New episode of Courage to Advance is live now on YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

05/19/2026

"People don't mind change. They just don't like being changed."

That's Scott McInnes on the latest episode of Courage to Advance, and it might be the cleanest summary of why so many culture initiatives stall.

Scott is the founder of Inspiring Change, a Dublin-based consultancy that shapes culture and develops leaders across Ireland and Europe. His firm surveyed chief people officers across Ireland to find out what's actually getting in the way of building strong, aligned cultures. The result was five recurring challenges, most of them the same ones organizations were facing a decade ago.

Kim Bohr sat down with Scott to compare his Irish research with SparkEffect's Trust in Turbulence™ findings from the US. The through-line, on both sides of the Atlantic: trust is the connective tissue, and middle managers are the ones who carry it.

Scott calls them chief sense makers. We'd add: they're also the place where culture either compounds or collapses.

🎧 Listen now on your favorite platform!

05/12/2026

Most leadership advice assumes everyone on your team is okay. What happens when they're not?

This week on Courage to Advance, Kim sits down with Dr. Gretchen Schmelzer, Harvard-trained psychologist, two-time national rowing champion, and co-founder of the Center for Trauma and Leadership, for a conversation about what leaders are actually carrying right now, and what most leadership development gets wrong about it.

A few of the threads worth listening for:
The difference between trauma and moral injury, and why the second one is what's quietly burning out your most mission-driven people.

The three forms of repeated trauma: what happened, the protections people built to survive it, and what didn't happen. Why that third one is often the work an organization has to make up for years later.

Why the survival strategies that catapult people into leadership (working hard, not asking for help, perfectionism) are the same ones that derail them once they get there.

And the reframe Gretchen would want every leader to take with them: stress management isn't about feeling good. It's about being able to access your full cognitive capacity in the moments that matter most.

Listen now: https://bit.ly/42kgMzF

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801 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA
98104

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+12064128300

Website

http://www.sparkeffect.com/

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