How to Read the Room and the Hidden Forces at Play

How to Read the Room and the Hidden Forces at Play

May 2, 2026 · 46 min · Season 4 · Episode 108

About this episode

This episode explores the hidden forces at play in meetings and relationships, featuring insights from authors Alan Briskin and Mary Gelinas.

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever walked into a room and felt something you couldn't quite name? A tension, an energy, a sense that something invisible was shaping everything happening around you — and inside you? What if that feeling wasn't imagination? What if there were hidden forces actively at play in every meeting, every team, every relationship — and most leaders have no idea they're there? In this episode, Alan Briskin and Mary Gelinas — authors of Space is Not Empty — reveal what those ...

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