What part of you do people see? Great leadership requires awareness of your unconscious thoughts and behaviors, and the willingness to examine how others experience them. Alignment is the goal. Are your intentions and actions aligned with how others experience you? If not, what gets in the way? Fear: Unconscious or consciously, we are always navigating safety. Protecting our fears and eliminating threats. Childhood: Many of the defense mechanisms that we developed were extrem

Organizations will naturally pull you beneath the surface. Leadership is the discipline of coming up for air and resisting the pull. Have you ever been snorkeling? You put your face in the water and a whole new world emerges. It is easy to lose yourself in the colors and wonder of the light, the coral, and the fish. And then, without realizing it, time passes. You forget to look up. You stop surveying the beach, checking for boats, noticing changing currents. You become lost