Courage is a teachable leadership skill made of four key competencies: clarity on values, staying in integrity and vulnerability, understanding your defensive armor, and emotional granularity. Brené Brown reveals why CEOs kicking the ball at head-height in crisis miss strategic opportunities, and how cognitive empathy—not affective empathy—builds resilience in organizations facing AI disruption and rapid change. Courage is teachable and measurable, consisting of value clarity, vulnerability, armor awareness, and emotional granularity, not the absence of fear.