Shadow work means making room for the parts of you that don’t fit the leadership script. The part that doubts. The part that resents. The part that wants to hide. When acknowledged, these parts lose their grip. When denied, they run the show from the background.
We live in a time when the dominant tone is resignation disguised as realism. But I believe in a different tone. I believe in the human capacity to remember what we’ve forgotten.
We live in a time when the dominant tone is resignation disguised as realism. But I believe in a different tone. I believe in the human capacity to remember what we’ve forgotten.
Shadow work means making room for the parts of you that don’t fit the leadership script. The part that doubts. The part that resents. The part that wants to hide. When acknowledged, these parts lose their grip. When denied, they run the show from the background.
At the start of anything new, we ride the wave of initiation. Ideas are fresh. Teams rally. Momentum is high. But what often gets lost in this early phase is the cost of sustained leadership.
Leadership is often praised for its boldness, its decisiveness, its vision. But few talk about the quieter truth: the weight leaders carry that no one sees.
