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Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel
I read my books out loud for you to have access to!
We are starting with Book 1!
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
Latest Episodes
Appendix 1: Safety Spectrum Baseline
Appendix 1: Safety Spectrum BaselinePsychological Safety, Measurement, and Moving from Tolerance to TrustPsychological safety is often talked about as a feeling, but feelings are not enough to change systems. In this appendix, I int...
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Chapter 21: Women Who Lead Differently
This chapter explores how neurodivergent women and gender-diverse people experience leadership through layers of expectation, performance, and survival. Drawing on emerging diagnostic trends, research, and lived experience, it examines why so m...
Chapter 20: The Neurodivergent Leader
Neurodivergent leadership has long been misunderstood, framed through deficit models that prioritise composure, social fluency, and consistency over depth, integrity, and insight. This chapter challenges those assumptions and reframes neurodive...
Chapter 19: The New Leadership Equation | Unmasking Leadership
Chapter 19 argues that every era reshapes leadership in response to what its people can no longer survive. The industrial age forced accountability after preventable harm. Corporate scandals pushed ethics programs to rebuild trust. Now, burnout...
Chapter 18: Designing Work That Works | PACE Model (Predictability, Autonomy, Clarity, Environment)
Chapter 18 makes a simple point that most workplaces still miss: work is never neutral. Every process, meeting, policy, and tool either increases people’s capacity, or quietly strips it away. This chapter reframes inclusion as a work-design iss...
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