142. Why Introverts Are Still Being Passed Over for Leadership — with David Boroughs

142. Why Introverts Are Still Being Passed Over for Leadership — with David Boroughs

June 28, 2026 · 34 min

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David Boroughs discusses the biases that lead to introverts being overlooked for leadership roles in the workplace.

What if being overlooked at work had nothing to do with your performance — and everything to do with a bias so embedded in workplace culture that most people don't even recognise it as bias at all? David Boroughs spent 30 years navigating corporate America as an introvert. He received top performance rankings and was still told, repeatedly, that he wasn't visible enough. Near the end of his career, that contradiction became an epiphany: it wasn't him that was broken. It was the culture. Now r...

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