Everything feels urgent. Stakeholder requests. Emails. Meeting conversations. Slack messages. “Quick ideas.” And somehow, it all comes back to you. Not because your team isn’t capable. Because they don’t know how to decide what matters without you.

We tend to talk about trust in leadership as something lost through major failures. But most of the time, trust erodes long before that: through everyday behaviors that quietly contradict stated values. In a recent essay, I draw on my doctoral research and lived experience, unpacking why this incongruence feels like betrayal and how

It's one thing to find yourself as the only woman at the leadership table, but it's another to thrive in your seat at the table. As more women have access to leadership opportunities previously unavailable to them, many women find themselves as the only woman at the table. Having spent much of my career here as well, I’ve developed practices along the way that have helped me thrive.