This resonates deeply. In many leadership teams I work with, silence isn’t a lack of ideas - it’s self-protection.
The cost of “Otherness” isn’t just emotional, it’s strategic. When capable minds self-censor because they don’t fit the unspoken mold, the organisation shrinks in ways it can’t measure.
The real leadership challenge is not to fill airtime, but to make room for voices that don’t sound like our own.
That’s where transformation begins.