Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

Who's Actually Behind the Wheel of Your Leadership? #shorts

1 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Susan Drumm identifies three automatic reflexes that hijack leadership: flinching at pushback, over-preparing from fear of being wrong, and going silent under tension. These neural patterns run on autopilot instead of your stated values. She argues leaders must interrupt these reflexes to reclaim intentional control.

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You think you're in control, but if you're not paying attention, your leadership is being driven by an old pattern. Not your values, not your vision, your wiring. You flinch when someone pushes back, or you overprepare because you fear being wrong, or you go quiet when things get tense. These aren't decisions, they're reflexes, and most leaders don't realize it's happening. See, Your brain builds shortcuts. It chooses for you unless you interrupt it. So the real question is, who's behind the wheel? The leader you want to be or the one your past trained you to be? The moment you see the pattern is the moment you get your power back. That's where real leadership begins.