The Gatekeeper Class: Who Controls What Leadership Never Hears

There is a moment most professionals recognize but rarely name. You are sitting in a leadership review. The status is green. The milestones are on track. The risks are categorized, owned, and under control. The presentation is confident. The room is calm. And yet something is wrong. Not wrong in a way you can point to directly. Wrong in the way that accumulates when you have spent enough time inside a large organization to understand the distance between what is presented and what is real. Wrong