Leadership does not begin when you get the title or when you sit in a strategy meeting or are directing a team. Inner work is not an exercise in introspection for its own sake; it is a responsibility of leadership. By contrast, a leader who has engaged in sustained inner work begins to develop a different kind of presence. Inner work done for leadership alone is incomplete; inner work integrated into one’s way of being changes how a person relates across all contexts. Perhaps the most confronting part of inner work is recognising that no amount of technical skill can compensate for emotional immaturity.