The Queer Integrity Dispatch

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What Happens When You Shout at the World and It Shouts Back?
The more you lead with anger, the more resistance you create. What’s the outcome you want?
Not Knowing Is Everything
Simple and easy are the nemesis of critical thinking and personal responsibility.
What Makes Your Leadership Queer?
A reflection on integrity, visibility, and leading from who you really are.
6:54
What If the Most Powerful Thing You Can Do as a Leader— Right Now—Is to Feel Well?
How emotional regulation, focus, and self-mastery make your leadership more sustainable and ethical.
16:28
The Most Subversive Thing You Can Do as a Queer Leader
Standing up for the freedoms that everyone deserves to have.
1:42
The Freedom to Be Who You Are—And the Responsibility That Comes With It
Why leadership, creativity, and belonging all depend on how you define—and defend—your freedom.
Positive vs. Negative Freedom: A Queer Reflection on Self and Society
What kind of freedom are you building your life around and who does it serve?
11:40
Do Your Work, Then Step Back: Taoist Wisdom for Sustainable Leadership
For LGBTQ+ leaders who want to make a difference without burning out in the process.

June 2025

Does This Make Me Sound Queer?
Your leadership loses power every time you filter your voice to fit in.
You Think You’re Leading Ethically—But Is Your Thinking Getting in the Way?
The case for open-hearted leadership in a world obsessed with being right.
Why Showing Up as a Queer Leader Matters More Than Ever
Why being fully yourself is the most radical form of leadership there is.
A New Kind of Leadership: Rooted, Reflective, and Queer
The six principles that shape my coaching philosophy — in poetic form.
© 2025 Darren Stehle
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