A company built on one equation.
Openness plus honesty equals real communication. Founded in Grand Rapids in 2016.
The team.
Founders, facilitators, and the people who hold the work together.
Ken Bogard
Ken's Know Honesty approach is enhancing the lives of hundreds of professionals, delivering significant financial gains for companies, improving leadership collaboration, and creating a movement. His enthusiasm for results, extensive experience, and entrepreneurial grit provide the momentum people need to achieve what they really want out of life.
Through years of tackling issues within organizations, Ken has realized that the pains and pleasures across a variety of people are remarkably alike. Everyone needs, and can have, a simple and effective approach to get quick, sustainable results. His relentless pursuit of finding the organization's true condition has helped improve the lives of over 300 owners and leaders, thousands of employees, and over 60 organizations.
Grace Gavin
Grace Gavin is a three-time founder and open and honest expert, helping leaders simplify how they communicate and eliminate the divides that stall progress. As co-founder of Know Honesty, she helps organizations build cultures of real communication, and has impacted thousands through her book, workshops, and keynotes.
With nearly seven years in the field and a background shaped by family business, Grace brings a heartfelt and straightforward approach to every interaction. Her work has been featured on stages, podcasts, and media outlets including Fox17 and NPR.
Tiffany Fitzsimmons
Tiffany joined the Know Honesty team as the Conference Space Manager to enhance her creativity and willfulness, ensuring that her teammates and client meetings are held in a warm and inviting atmosphere.
She goes above and beyond when organizing the schedules and meeting special requests to enhance the education and forward motion for all our clients. Tiffany enjoys exceeding client expectations and is an innovator when it comes to space management. She lives into our Core Value of Grow or Die every single day with her can-do attitude. Her ability to adapt to any situation is a part of the magic at Know Honesty.
Our core values.
Five values that show up in every room we walk into. They are how we work, not words on a wall.
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Help First
We lead with what serves the person in front of us, before anything else.
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Grow or Die
Comfort and growth do not occupy the same space. We choose growth.
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Be Open
We listen without reservation, putting our needs and wants on pause for someone else.
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Be Honest
We say the true thing, even when it is the harder thing to say.
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Humbly Confident
We know our work and hold it with humility at the same time.
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Special thanks to.
The partners and collaborators who help us build the work.
Deksia
Shelly Berkoski · Joe Novaco · Aaron Vandergalien · Joshua Conran
Bloom Social
Jeff Pipp · Ethan Weliver
Emberly Digital
Cameron Embers
Justin Spizman
Book consultant on Know Honesty.
Capstone CPA
Tony Clark · Becca Geeting
Crafted Law
Kevin McLaughlin
Awaken Leadership Solutions
Aaron Einfeld
313 Media Co
Dillon England
Igniting Souls
Kary Oberbrunner
Legacy Leadership
Robert Heath
Pressure-Free
Elle Ingalls
Connect with us.
To learn more about Know Honesty, speak with our team, and begin your pursuit of honesty.