Authority Leakage is a thing

Most senior women I work with are delivering major projects, managing risk, influencing boards and holding significant budgets. They rarely wake up thinking they need more confidence.

And yet they replay meetings afterwards. They second-guess decisions that they knew at the time were sound. They over-explain when they’re challenged. They stay closer to the daily delivery than their role requires.

This is what I call Authority Leakage.

It happens when your responsibility has expanded but your way of operating has not fully shifted with it. The behaviours that built your early success continue to run in the background, even though the stakes are higher and the scrutiny sharper.

Over time, you are respected and relied upon, but your influence does not expand at the same rate as your workload. Because you are competent, the system keeps giving you more to do rather than more say in the big decisions. 

This is not corrected through mindset work or confidence techniques. You can feel confident and still leak authority when the pressure is on.

At senior level, your authority is shaped by how you hold yourself when challenged, how quickly you make decisions, how much responsibility you take on (or don’t) and how clearly you set out your stall.

Many leaders know this is what is needed, but can’t quite make it happen consistently. So they simply work harder.

If this feels familiar, you already know the solution is not working harder.

It is changing how you are operating at this level.

Time for a new operating model?

Power House is where we get you back on track.