In earlier executive roles, I had been both fixer and healer in the same assignment. The role I found myself in now wouldn’t allow that gradual approach.
Through it all, I came to understand a truth many executives resist - leadership has a lifespan.

What I learned in command - and what every executive eventually discovers - is that rising to leadership doesn’t happen the moment you know the most. It happens the moment you’re willing to shoulder the most; because at the highest levels, confidence stops being a product of what you know and becomes a reflection of who you are.