This piece struck a deeper chord than expected.
I recently returned from a leadership offsite where the unspoken tension wasn’t strategy - it was integration. Not of markets or systems, but of people, ideas, identities.
Reading about Tunisia, I saw a reflection of what many leadership teams miss. Integration isn’t coexistence. It’s not putting people in the same room and hoping collaboration will emerge. It’s the patient work of creating a shared identity where no voice dominates, and none disappears.
This is where leadership shows up: not in big speeches, but in micro-decisions. Who speaks. Who listens. Whose view expands the frame.
Tunisia’s 3,000-year history teaches us this: deep integration happens when we stop managing diversity and start embodying it. That’s the shift I see when coaching senior teams - when “alignment” stops being consensus and starts becoming depth.
Not all harmony is obvious. Sometimes it’s built brick by brick, over centuries. Or, in the case of leadership, over conversations that actually change something.
That’s what I’m here for.