Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel

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Nicola Knobel

5 episodes

3 days ago

Pop me message to read out loud! This episode features Chapter 5, The Language of Neurodiversity, from Unmasking Leadership, read in full as part of this audiobook podcast series. In this chapter, Nicola Knobel explores why language matters so deeply in neurodiversity-informed workplaces. The words we use to describe brains, behaviour, focus, and energy do more than label experience. They shape how leaders design work, interpret performance, and respond to difference. Chapter 5 introduces and...

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Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel

Chapter 5: The Language of Neurodiversity | Unmasking Leadership

2 weeks ago

19 minutes

Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel

Chapter 4: What Is Neurodiversity? | Unmasking Leadership

Pop me message to read out loud! This episode features Chapter 4, What Is Neurodiversity?, from Unmasking Leadership, read in full as part of this audiobook podcast series. In this chapter, Nicola Knobel explains what neurodiversity actually means, where the concept came from, and why most leadership and workplace systems have failed to account for cognitive difference. Drawing on the work of sociologist Judy Singer, this chapter explores the shift from the medical model of disability to the ...

2 weeks ago

19 minutes

Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel

Chapter 1: The Leadership Lie | Unmasking Leadership Audiobook

Pop me message to read out loud! 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 neuro...

2 weeks ago

13 minutes

Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel

Chapter 2: When Leadership Feels Like a Performance | Unmasking Leadership Audiobook

Pop me message to read out loud! This episode features Chapter 2, When Leadership Feels Like a Performance, from Unmasking Leadership, read in full as part of this audiobook podcast series. In this chapter, Nicola Knobel explores how modern leadership often rewards visibility, confidence, and emotional performance over clarity, care, and capability. The chapter examines the pressure to appear composed, decisive, and endlessly resilient, and how these expectations disproportionately impact neu...

2 weeks ago

9 minutes

Reading between the lines with Nicola Knobel

Author’s Note & Introduction | Unmasking Leadership, Neurodiversity and Psychological Safety at Work

Pop me message to read out loud! This episode features the Author’s Note and Introduction from Unmasking Leadership, read in full as part of this subscription-only audiobook podcast. In these opening chapters, Nicola Knobel explains why this book needed to be written and sets out the central questions it explores. The introduction establishes the focus on neurodivergent leadership, psychological safety, burnout, masking, and the gap between how workplaces say they support people and how safe...

2 weeks ago

10 minutes