Is Your Ego in the Driving Seat? Taaka Awori & Daniel Pobee

Send us Fan Mail Has anyone ever given you feedback, and instead of listening, you spent the whole time building your case for why they were wrong? In this episode, Taaka Awori is joined by Daniel Pobee, leadership development practitioner, for a conversation on one of the quiet forces shaping leadership from the inside: the ego. Not ego as the enemy, but ego unchecked, sitting in the driving seat, mistaking dominance for leadership and defensiveness for strength. Daniel and Taaka share real moments from their work with boards, teams, and organisations across the continent, the leader who goes silent-inducing the moment he walks into a room, the board member who couldn't let someone else hold the space, the fight over who sits in the front seat of the car. Small moments. Big signals. They talk about what it actually looks like when ego takes over and offer a simple practice for catching it before it drives your next decision. This is an invitation to notice. Where does your ego show up? And what is it protecting you from?