Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel
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Unmasking Leadership is a subscription-based audiobook podcast written and read by Nicola Knobel, exploring neurodivergent leadership, psychological safety, and the systems that shape who gets to lead at work.
Each episode features a full chapter from the book Unmasking Leadership: Neurodivergent Leaders, Psychological Safety, and the Future of Inclusive Workplaces. Chapters are released regularly and presented exactly as written, without summaries or commentary.
This podcast examines why traditional leadership models often fail neurodivergent people, how masking and burnout become occupational health issues, and why psychological safety frequently exists in policy but not in lived experience. It explores leadership through the lens of risk management, workplace safety, and organisational power, connecting inclusion to systems, not slogans.
Designed for leaders, safety and risk professionals, HR practitioners, and neurodivergent workers, Unmasking Leadership goes beyond awareness to examine how work actually operates, who it protects, and who it excludes.
If you are interested in leadership, neurodiversity at work, psychological safety, workplace safety, burnout, masking, psychosocial risk, and inclusive leadership, this podcast offers depth, clarity, and evidence-based insight.
The first two chapters are available free. Additional chapters can be accessed by purchasing the full audiobook series.
Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel
Chapter 1: The Leadership Lie | Unmasking Leadership Audiobook
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This episode features Chapter 1, The Leadership Lie, from Unmasking Leadership, read in full as part of this audiobook podcast series.
In this chapter, Nicola Knobel challenges the dominant stories we are told about leadership, including who leadership is for, what it is meant to look like, and why so many people feel they are failing at it. The chapter examines how leadership norms reward performance, confidence, and conformity, while quietly excluding neurodivergent people and anyone who does not fit the expected mould.
Chapter 1 sets the tone for the book by questioning whether leadership has been designed around capability, or around comfort for those already in power. It introduces the idea that many leadership frameworks are less about effectiveness and more about maintaining familiar behaviours, hierarchies, and narratives.
This episode is presented exactly as written, without commentary or summary, to allow listeners to engage fully with the text. Chapters in this audiobook series are released regularly.
This chapter will be of interest to leaders, aspiring leaders, safety and risk professionals, HR practitioners, and anyone questioning why leadership often feels like a performance rather than a practice.
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