What I had to unlearn when leaving a Fortune 500 company

For most of my corporate career, if an executive had a major speaking engagement in another country, someone from communications was getting on the plane. Often, that someone was me. So when I moved to a startup and our CEO was invited to deliver a main-stage keynote in Paris, every instinct I’d built over more than a decade inside a Fortune 500 company told me what came next. Except this time, I didn’t get on the plane. I worked closely on the narrative, the talk track, the sl...