ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Have you ever walked into a leadership meeting and felt pressure to become someone else? Louder, faster, the person who fills every silence?
Ruth Andermatt has coached highly sensitive and introverted leaders for 28 years. Her view is simple: "When we're present, the performance takes care of itself." She calls it coming home to your own power. It isn't a destination. It's a returning point you come back to before you walk into a room.
Ruth tells the story of a CEO in a male-dominated world who stopped trying to match the bold voices in her board meetings. Instead she placed questions, "Have we considered…?", stayed solid, and wasn't in a rush to fill the silence. Ruth explains why "speaking up doesn't mean conflict," and why the most dangerous thing on any team is when people go quiet. She shares how a piece of red construction paper on a home-office door became a boundary a whole staff of 25 could trust. And she tells a team of engineers, "Nice doesn't work. Kind speaks up."
In this episode you'll discover: - Come home to your own power before a meeting, with a breath, a walk, or fifteen minutes with your phone off, so you can see the people you're leading instead of collecting yourself. - Speak up without turning it into a fight, and treat a silent team as a warning sign, not agreement. - Set small, gentle boundaries and act on them consistently, because "you said no, but you didn't act no."
Hit play and listen now to learn how to speak up and lead as yourself.
Guest Links: - Andermatt Consulting - LinkedIn
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