Speaker • Researcher • Writer
The room sets the price of using what you know.
I examine the relationship between the person and the room, and what judgment requires next.
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You were never the only variable in the room.
Speaking
My talks help audiences examine what they are bringing, what other people are bringing, what the conditions are making possible or costly, and what the moment requires next.
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For leadership audiences
Is this a capability problem or a conditions problem?
For executives
What here should not depend on you?
For leaders in transition
What changed in me, my voice, or the room?
Why I examine this
“I could not keep selling clarity as if clarity alone could change the room.”
I had done the leadership work myself. I could name the leader I wanted to be. Then I discovered that knowing how I wanted to lead did not tell me what it would cost to lead that way in a particular room.
I started seeing the same gap in my work with other leaders. So I stopped examining only the person and started asking what was happening around them.
Follow the question into the research →Explore the work
The research, long-form essays, and The Room Files each carry a different part of the thinking.
Evidence + framework
What am I actually studying?
The leaders I interviewed helped me examine a recurring question: why can the same person lead with ease in one room and find the same leadership costly in another?
Explore the research →Ideas worth staying with a little longer.
Essays + questions
What are you thinking about?
Long-form essays and practical questions about what belongs to you, what belongs to others, and what belongs to the room.
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Notes in progress
What are you still working through?
Notes from the middle of the work: what I am noticing, reconsidering, and testing as the ideas continue to develop.
Explore The Room Files →From the room
Reflections from audiences and event leaders after Nayli’s talks.
You could feel the energy shift in the room. Women opened up, strangers became connections, and I watched women realize they weren’t alone.
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Her keynote was one of the highest rated sessions of the entire event.
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She put language to something I had felt for years. Succeeding is not only doing the job well, it is constantly calculating how you are being received.
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I filled pages and pages with notes. Leadership is not only the courage to speak up, it is the judgment to know when, how, and when to listen.
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Tell me about your audience and what they are navigating.
