The Revolution Will Be Televised: Awakening Leadership from the Inside Out

There’s a quiet revolution taking place. I bet you can feel it. We have stepped outside of the cubicles and board rooms and joined together in community circles, supportive systems-focused relationships, and the ripple of shared belonging. It’s the revolution of energy, of inner frequency, of remembering what leadership could be when it’s rooted in care, connection, and collective responsibility.

It’s not abstract anymore. This moment we’re in is a collective shifting, unraveling, and reimagining. The feeling you have is both spiritual and political, individual and collective and millions are feeling this deeply embodied way of ‘remembering’ globally. 

I’m here for all of it. And so are you.

Through my doctoral research, I’ve interviewed over a hundred women about the impacts of toxic leadership on who they are, how they feel, and what happened. What emerged wasn’t just data: it was an emotional truth. Women in leadership are shrinking in power, voice, and confidence when they are stuck in toxicity. They are silencing their brilliance, sacrificing safety for survival. This isn’t unique to just women. It’s all of us. But some of us have additional and unique barriers we are already facing as marginalized genders in the workforce and this added layer of ridiculously traumatizing behavior is, a lot of times, the straw that broke the back. We aren’t burning out from the workload. We are burning out from constantly defending and fighting for our worth.

Only 26% of employees say the feedback they receive actually helps them improve. Only 28% feel their manager communicates effectively. (Gallup, 2023)

Even the language we use to describe leadership, work, and success reflects the root problem. We talk about climbing the ladder, winning the battle, crushing goals, or fighting for a seat at the table. These phrases are steeped in dominance, scarcity, and control. They mirror systems that reward power rather than care from within. But we don’t want to lead like we’re in a warzone. We want to lead like we belong. That we belong to ourselves, to each other, and to something meaningful. We want leadership that feels like care, not conquest. Like shared purpose, not performance. The future of leadership isn’t about fighting harder. It’s about building softer spaces where love, safety, and belonging don’t just survive, they thrive.

This isn’t just a management issue. it’s a cultural wound. And we are done pretending we can “fix” it with improvement focused performance reviews, free yoga, and ping-pong tables. 

We need to reimagine leadership from the ground up.