You’ve done the internal work. You know your values. You know what kind of leader you want to be. You’ve examined the stories you’ve been carrying and started making more deliberate choices about who you’re becoming.
But leadership doesn’t happen inside your own head. It happens in rooms. With people. In organizations. And the question isn’t just who you are — it’s whether who you are is actually landing.
In the final episode of the leadership identity series, Dr. Nicole Bryan introduces the distinction between leadership identity — the internal, who you know yourself to be — and leadership brand — how the people around you are actually experiencing you.