- Inner self: Recognizing what makes us vibrate with truth or alignment
- Authentic self: Choosing ways of being that ring true in the world
- Leadership: Leading in a way that others feel (and can attune to), not just observe
The most powerful leaders are not always those with the loudest voices or the largest followings. They are those whose presence resonates — whose way of being rings true in ways others can feel and trust. Resonance is not performance. It is alignment — between inner truth and outer expression. It is the deep echo others experience when we lead from that place.
In this Conversation, we’ll reflect on Resonance: how we notice it, how we cultivate it, and how we invite others to attune to it in their own leadership journeys.
In music and in physics, the idea of resonance is about vibration. We could think of the phrase “that resonates with me”, where what someone tells us gives us a certain feeling, a certain shiver, a vibration of meaning. When a feeling resonates within us, we feel aligned, whole, and satisfied. We “vibrate” or “resonate” with truth, with alignment. If we are walking our journey with intention, taking necessary pauses to check in with ourselves, we know when we’ve hit alignment.
There was a series on Netflix called The Residence and one of the characters talked about this sort of discovery and knowing like this:
At some point, you go from not knowing something, to knowing, to seeing it. When that happens, who knows …
Cordelia Cupp
We may not know when our self is in alignment but when we do, we just … know.
And once we know, it’s hard to ignore. A leader who ignores their Center, their resonance, their alignment is one who doesn’t ring true in their engagement with others. Such a leader struggles to bring teams together.
The Resonant Leader:
Each of us carries resonances — patterns and energies that echo through the ways we speak, lead, and create.
These Echoes are not static labels; they shift with us, reflect our inner rhythms, and invite us to notice which aspects of our leadership presence are currently most alive.
People notice when we are being real and when we are faking it. Sure, everyone has bad days, or days when we aren’t being as true to our selves as we can (or should). But if we have reached a point at which we are living as close to our Center, our authentic self, in all areas of our experience, our leadership will survive that one-off bad day. No one who has an opportunity to know us will be thrown off-kilter by it but instead, will attribute it to the right source — just a bad day, rather than thinking we’ve been fake all along!
In the next Conversation, we’ll turn toward these patterns more directly — the Echoes we each carry, and how they shape our presence in the world.
Your Journey Sentinel, Andree