When Commanding The Room Stops Being About Performance
A live Disruptors Lead conversation on authority, presence, and leadership visibility.
Leadership
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When Being Seen Feels Risky: The Psychology of Visibility Under Pressure
Self-doubt isn’t a confidence issue. It’s what happens when your nervous system learns to associate visibility and responsibility with emotional risk.
Commanding the Room: Authority, Presence, and Leadership Visibility
Why over-performing weakens authority, and what actually earns credibility in the room.
Disruptors Festival 2026—a Leadership Room For What Matters Now
A one-day, curated festival on leadership, power and culture for women leaders and allies, supported by LSEG.
Why Capable Leaders Lose Clarity, And Why It’s Not a Personal Failure
You don’t lose clarity because you lack ability; it thins when responsibility accumulates without space.
Survivor, Scholar, Disruptor: Why I Fight for Women’s Safety and Refuse to Stay Silent
Teachers told me I would never go to university, that I wasn’t intelligent enough. I believed every word, and it was my belief in them that held me back.
Flavilla Fongang: From the Ghetto of Paris to Rewriting the Rules of Success & Leadership
Speaking up when it's easier to stay silent taught me that change doesn’t come from conformity.
Nobody Came to Save Me—So I Led Myself and Now Create What Others Are Missing
I am living proof of what can be achieved despite lacking what is commonly deemed necessary for success.
Refusing to Shrink: What It Really Takes to Lead on Your Own Terms
I have paid a hefty price for navigating corporate politics differently, all in an effort to maintain my integrity and keep myself safe.