I’m an introvert.
Not shy.
Not socially anxious.
Not incapable.
Just wired differently.
I’ve spent the last 20 years working in corporate environments - recruitment, leadership roles, scale-ups, messy middle management layers, restructures, performance reviews, promotion cycles, politics, the lot.
And for most of that time, I was trying to figure something out.
Why does corporate reward noise so heavily?
Why are the fastest talkers often seen as the strongest leaders?
Why do thoughtful, capable people get labelled “quiet” and then quietly overlooked?
I’ve seen brilliant introverts stall in their careers not because they lacked ability, but because they didn’t understand the game being played around them.
This publication is about that game.
Not self-help.
Not confidence coaching.
Not “how to be louder”.
It’s about:
Visibility without performance.
Promotion without personality distortion.
Energy management in overstimulating workplaces.
Playing the corporate game without losing yourself.
If you’re an introvert working in corporate and trying to figure out how to win without becoming someone else, you’ll probably recognise a lot of this.
I write once a week.
Just honest observations from someone who’s still in it.
— Lee
