How Did You Become a Leader?

Use the 5-D model to unleash your authentic story

In sharing our own leadership story with others — how we rose through the ranks “from the mailroom to the executive suite” — we tend to revise and explain it to a point where it seems like a predestined series of successes. We distill a 10 or 30-year career into an anodyne, Horatio Alger tale. One that is predictable from the first few words.