For many of us in this community, those experiences were unusually high-stakes - we were often working out what made it safe to exist long before we ever built a team or wrote a business plan. That kind of script rarely stays contained to childhood. It tends to become the default setting your leadership runs from, decades later, usually without you ever choosing it.
This week's Executive Depth edition breaks down the Origin Code: why that default setting formed, why it compiled under higher stakes for queer leaders specifically, and two ways to start locating - and rewriting - the rule still running you.
For the LGBTQ+ executives, founders, leaders, and managers in this group: what's one decision you always seem to make the same way under pressure - and where do you think that pattern was actually learned?