Glass House EP8: Your Title Won't Save You: Identity, Agency, and Leadership When the Ground Shifts
If your company eliminated your role tomorrow, who are you?
Organizations embed identity into titles, org charts, and performance ratings. Employees build their entire sense of self around where they sit on a chart. And when the ground shifts, both sides are left asking the same question: what just happened?
In this episode, Shera Haliczer and Daisy Watkins were joined by Deena Perro, Growth Advisor at Catalyst Constellations, for a conversation about what happens when the title that defined you disappears and what it actually takes to build an identity that survives the org chart.
We explored the difference between positional credibility and portable credibility, why most professionals have never been taught to tell the difference, and what leaders owe the people they develop beyond a desk and a title.