The man holding this mic once rehearsed a two-line self-introduction for an hour. 🎤 I am a hardcore introvert. The version of me from twelve years ago would not have entered this room, let alone stood in front of it. Yesterday I spent the whole day with leaders across our region. Morning with 80+ leaders from Tirunelveli and Tenkasi. Evening with the leadership teams of Nagercoil and Marthandam. Rooms full of business owners reviewing numbers, asking hard questions, making commitments. And somewhere between those two rooms it hit me: my biggest transformation is not the title or the region. It is that a person who feared small talk now spends his days creating leaders. Here is what I learned about introversion and leadership: I did not become an extrovert. I became an ambivert with a purpose. The stage still costs me energy. But a clear reason to speak beats the fear of speaking, every single time. Leadership did that. Not motivation videos. Responsibility. When people depend on...