Couch Scholar

Learn from the Stories You Love

Couch Scholar turns the shows and films you already love into guided conversations that build real leadership skills.

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Try Spark of the Day · 5 min

How it works

  1. 1

    Pick a story

  2. Potato, the Couch Scholar AI learning coach

    Talk it through with Potato, your AI learning coach

    Meet Potato →
  3. 3

    Leave with something you'll use.

How learning works →

Featured experiences

Artwork for BELIEVE

Ted Lasso

BELIEVE

How do you build a team people want to belong to?

You'll be able to:

  • Build psychological safety on high-performing teams.
  • Navigate conflict and accountability with empathy.
  • Design team rituals that reinforce shared purpose.

You'll leave with: My Team Culture Experiment

No need to have seen it first.

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Artwork for In the Room

The West Wing

In the Room

How do leaders make sound, defensible decisions when information is incomplete, advice conflicts, and every available choice carries a cost?

You'll be able to:

  • Name the values a decision must protect before weighing options, and recognize when a personal stake compromises judgment.
  • Structure advice so that disagreement and bad news reach the decision-maker before the decision, not after.
  • Make and own a decision with incomplete information, separating process quality from outcome quality and noticing emotional influence.

You'll leave with: Decision Brief

No need to have seen it first.

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Artwork for Work the Problem

Apollo 13

Work the Problem

When something goes badly wrong and the clock is running, how does a team organize itself to make good decisions with what it actually has?

You'll be able to:

  • Distinguish a crisis from a bad day and stand up a clear response structure in the first minutes.
  • Name who decides, who advises and how expertise reaches the decision-maker, before the crisis starts.
  • Keep one clear channel to the people doing the work and communicate accurately to many audiences, including what isn't known.

You'll leave with: Crisis Playbook Card

No need to have seen it first.

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Abstract creative artwork for Creative Spark

5–10 minutes

Creative Spark

A quick creative-thinking challenge with Potato.

You'll be able to:

Stretch your thinking by working through constraints, reversals, unexpected combinations and new perspectives.

You'll leave with: A recap of the thinking moves you used, plus an idea worth saving or coming back to.

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For campuses

Give supervisors, chairs and leadership teams professional learning they'll actually want to do. We're inviting a small group of campuses to try it first.

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