Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

Why did Springbank Collective Founding Partner Courtney Leimkuhler start her own firm?

12 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Courtney Leimkuhler left to start Springbank Collective because she wanted to be captain of her own ship. She saw that legacy firms' efforts to promote women into leadership, while well-intentioned, had limits. Building her own firm let her pursue a more impactful path on her own terms.

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How did you decide to go out on, on a limb and start your own firm versus joining, like, as, as you've done before, a legacy institution and creating meaningful change within it?
It's such a great question. I haven't thought about it through that frame before. I think part of it was at some stage, I think we all want to, like, be the captain of our own ship. So I think part of it was having worked for these really big institutions, I kind of wanted to build my own thing, but More of it was just having a lot of conviction around our thesis. So in all this time in corporate, I saw a lot of really well-intended efforts to figure out how do we get more women into positions of leadership and a lot of emphasis on something which is important, which is representation. And, you know, I was a part of representation and I certainly appreciated having the chance to have these, you know, leadership jobs and could see that that was obviously significant.