Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

When Your State becomes the Team's State #shorts

5 Sept 2025 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:41

Short-form YouTube clip by Susan Drumm arguing that a leader's emotional state influences their team's state. The speaker says "your energy enters the room before you do," cites neuroscience (people read emotional cues quickly), and advises leaders to check and shift their energy before meetings to change team atmosphere.

Chapters

If you lead a team, you're going to want to listen to this. Your energy enters the room before you do, and whether you realize it or not, you're bringing the weather. Walk in anxious, the whole room tightens up. Walking grounded, people breathe easier. That's not just intuition. That's neuroscience. We're wired to read and react to emotional cues fast. And when you're the leader, your state becomes the team state. So before the meeting, ask, what forecast am I bringing? Storm clouds, calm skies. You don't just set the vision, you set the temperature. So shift your energy and you shift everything.