False Harmony in Teams

A conversation with Admired Leadership Executive Coach and Partner Diana Hong and Wes Bender from CRA | Admired Leadership, exploring one of the most quietly destructive forces in teams and organizations: false harmony. Recorded from the road during graduation season, this session unpacks why people choose surface-level agreement over honest challenge, how leaders can spot false harmony before it derails a team, and what to do about it - whether you're the leader trying to create conditions for honest dialogue or the individual who's been afraid to speak up. Diana draws on real client examples, including a 7,000-person organizational change that stalled entirely because no one in the room was willing to say what they actually thought.