True Leadership: Where Fantasy Meets Reality

Are you a people leader or aspiring to be one? Whether you're in a 9-5 role or building your own business, here's something I've observed in 20+ years of developing leaders across tech, biotech, and Fortune 500 companies:

True leadership is where fantasy meets reality.

The fantasy? That your title gives you authority and you need to be the hero with all the answers.

The reality? People follow leaders who've earned their respect through consistent actions, not those who demand it through hierarchy. And great leaders multiply their impact by developing others who can lead without them.

Most first-time managers get stuck in the fantasy. They think leadership means having the solution to every problem. They exhaust themselves trying to prove they deserve the promotion.

You know what actually works? Shifting from being the hero to building heroes.

Here's the test: Ask your managers (or yourself) how many problems they solved this week versus how many problems their team solved. The ratio tells you everything.

Over the last year, I've helped leaders from companies like Fidelity, Credit Karma, Shutterfly and Variant make this exact shift. 

When you make that shift, everything changes. Your team becomes more capable. You become less overwhelmed. The business scales without you becoming the bottleneck.

If you're leading a team and feeling like you need to have all the answers, or if you're scaling a company and watching your managers struggle with this transition, let's talk.

Book a free strategy call and you'll walk away with a clear diagnostic of where your managers are stuck and 2-3 immediate actions you can take.