A Trust-Based Reflection for Unplanned Challenges

What This Is

This reflection is a tool for alignment. It brings your awareness to the precise moment when momentum breaks and instinct takes over. Leadership lives in those moments, in the posture you choose when the ground moves beneath you. This tool helps you see what drove your choices, what signals you sent, and where trust was either extended or withheld.

Reciprocating Authority

is a lived practice. It travels with you into discomfort, into disruption, into complexity. You don’t apply it from the outside. You embody it. This reflection sharpens that embodiment.

I offer The Obstacle Inventory as a resource for the leaders I work with. It is a simple tool, freely given, to support reflection after something unplanned interrupts the rhythm. A conversation shifts. A decision stirs tension. A moment surprises you. These are the places where leadership becomes visible. This inventory helps you see how you responded, what your posture communicated, and how trust moved through the space. Reciprocating Authority takes shape in these moments.