In what ways does Cindi’s narrative challenge the “story most often told” in leadership theory? How might these insights aid in the critical learning process?

1. Cindi articulates the powerful pressures associated with dominant leader prototypes that she faced along with an evolving set of approaches she used to survive, thrive, and disrupt these dynamics. How have you negotiated leader prototypes in your life and to what extent do the disruption techniques that Cindi shared resonate? What other techniques might you use?

2. Cindi’s narrative speaks to the agency she accrued from internally deciding when to intervene within an inequitable system. How might you contribute to the creation of spaces that cultivate agency in leadership processes as well as diminish the negative impacts of implicit prototypes?