Fear of being ‘too much’ silences women leaders. Here’s how to ask anyway

“I don’t know if I came across super harsh or not. At some point, I lost sense of how I was showing up.” That was my client after having a hard conversation with one of her leaders about getting the resources she needed in her role. She had asked for help already, but the help they initially offered wouldn’t solve her real problem of being understaffed and without necessary technology systems. Frustrated that she wasn’t being heard, and stressed that this coul...