Why Your Team Doesn’t See You as Authentic (And What to Do About It) with Maya Rupert

What if the authenticity we keep demanding from leaders isn't actually a real, measurable thing?

In this episode, I sit down with Maya Rupert, who managed Julián Castro's 2020 presidential campaign, becoming only the third Black woman in U.S. history to run a presidential campaign, and later served as a senior advisor to Elizabeth Warren. Today she's Executive Vice President at Blue State and the author of The Real Ones: How to Disrupt the Hidden Ways Racism Makes Us Less Authentic.

Maya challenged something I hear constantly in the corporate world: that we can j...