The leadership quality most executives overlook


Coming Out of Stealth Mode to Launch Something Exciting for Leaders!

Launching a new assessment for leaders

Hey Reader

I wanted to let you in on something I've been building that I am launching out into the world today.

  1. WHAT I JUST BUILT FOR YOU

After two decades of advising executives operating across cultures and complexity, I kept seeing the same gap. Leaders were smart, experienced, and well-intentioned. However, they were missing a specific set of capabilities that determine whether people follow you across difference.

I built the VOICE Framework™ to measure exactly that.

VOICE is a 15-question leadership assessment that gives you a personalized report across five dimensions:

• Vision and Values Alignment

• Openness to Difference

• Iterative Innovation Through Psychological Safety

• Culturally Fluent Courageous Communication

• Embodied Leadership

You get a score, a narrative, specific insights on where you lead with strength, where your next edge is waiting, and a 90-day reflection guide.

It takes 15 minutes. It costs $197.

This is for you, Reader, if you lead across cultures, manage global or distributed teams, or work in environments where difference is the daily reality, not the exception.

  1. THE LEADERSHIP INSIGHT BEHIND IT

Most leadership models were built for homogeneous environments. They measure decisiveness, vision, and execution. These are all important, but they were not built for a world where your team spans six time zones, three cultural frameworks, and two completely different definitions of what it means to show respect.

The leaders who thrive globally are not necessarily the smartest or the most experienced. They are the ones who read context before they read the room. They are the ones who know that clarity is a form of respect, who regulate their own nervous system so their team can borrow calm from them under pressure.

That is what VOICE measures- not personality, capability.

Capability can be developed, Reader.

  1. ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK: Susie Lipps, Founder of Conversations in the Vineyard

A World of Difference has now reached listeners in over 100 countries and crossed 153,000 downloads. Every episode is a conversation about what it means to lead, live, and work across difference.

If you are new here, start with a recent episode that resonates. If you have been listening for a while, thank you. You are part of why this exists. Thank you, Reader.

  1. SOMETHING TO SIT WITH THIS WEEK

The most dangerous assumption a leader can make is that the way they experience a room is the way everyone else experiences it too.

One question worth asking your team this week: What would make it easier for you to tell me something I might not want to hear?

Their answer will tell you everything about the culture you have actually built, not the one you intended.

Reader, forward this to a leader in your world who operates across difference. They will thank you for it.

Lori Adams-Brown

Founder, Brava Global Advisory

Host, A World of Difference

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Lori Adams-Brown is Director of Global Talent Development in a Silicon Valley tech company, a cross-cultural Talent Development expert with over 20 years of experience across 3 continents, and host and producer of the top 5% global A World of Difference podcast. As an advisor to Silicon Valley CEOs, she consults and speaks internationally on global leadership development. Her Key Leadership program has seen global growth in manager satisfaction and competence as well as enhancing EQ and CQ among tech managers across domains. She sits on the Silicon Valley Executive Board of How Women Lead where she leads change in supporting women to get on corporate boards. She also sits on the board of Justice Revival in Washington DC where she is working to pass the ERA. With her experience in international relief & development as a former nonprofit liaison with the UN in the Indonesian tsunami relief, Lori has led diverse global teams in multiple cultures and has lived in Singapore, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Lori speak 6 languages, and enjoys reading, hiking and traveling.

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