Rebecca Foley Askew

For high-acheivers who can't name the decision they're actually circling around (yet).

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May 18, 2026

Just like a mirror cracks under pressure, so does inclusive leadership. Let this article serve as a mirror to your own leadership practices.

Most organizations that think they’re doing inclusion well aren’t. And the gap between believing you’re an inclusive leader and actually being one doesn’t show up on the good days. It shows up the moment things get hard. You may have seen this pattern in places that have visible markers of DEI commitment: a committee, pronouns […]

May 11, 2026

Image of empty board room symbolic of why good leaders leave organizations

Every organization has a story about why their good people left. The official version usually involves something tidy. A better opportunity. A career change. Personal circumstances. Sometimes it’s framed as a loss but an inevitable one, the kind of thing that happens in every organization and doesn’t really mean anything about this one specifically. The […]

May 4, 2026

Canary in a coal mine, or how values-based leadership can lead to self-doubt and shame.

I’ve been asking a question my entire life: am I the only one who sees a problem with this? In classrooms, in boardrooms, in leadership meetings where I’d look around the table and feel the weight settle into my chest before my hand went up anyway. Most of the time, I was not the only […]