Bellomo Leadership
Thane
Bellomo
Architect of the Courage Economy. Executive coaching that does not let you off the hook.
Author of The Courage Economy: Why Companies Lie and How to Change Yours.
The book · Available now
The Courage Economy: Why Companies Lie and How to Change Yours
Every organization pays a tax that never shows up on the P&L: meetings where everyone agrees and no one believes, initiatives called strategic that no one funds, good people who stop speaking up and then stop showing up. The Courage Economy shows leaders how to redesign work so that telling the truth becomes the rational choice, not the brave exception.
Most leaders try to fix silence by asking people to be braver. Thane Bellomo shows why that never works, and how to redesign work so that telling the truth becomes the rational choice.
Dr. David Burkus, author of Best Team EverBellomo frames the three states of an organizational culture so clearly that a leader can leverage them the same day.
Gregg Ward, The Center for Respectful Leadership; author of The Respectful LeaderWhat lies do we tell at work and why, what is the cost, and what would our organizations look like without those lies?
Kathryn Zukof, author of The Hard and Soft Sides of Change Management
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See what comfortable silence is costing your organization.
The Courage Economy Diagnostic scores your organization across the five elements (Important Work, Curiosity, Challenge, Trust and Community) and estimates the annual dollar drag of the Lie Economy. Confidential, and free.
35 questions · 15–20 minutes
The work
Most organizations do not have a strategy problem. They have a courage problem. Leaders say the right things about honesty, merit, and development. The system rewards the opposite.
Thane spent 25 years watching that pattern from the inside — Fortune 500 consulting and 15 years leading organizational development in the nuclear industry, where silence is not a metaphor.
He works with C-suite and VP-level leaders who are done buying harmony with comfortable lies.