You Speak First in Every Meeting. That's the Problem. | Shruti Rustagi

The Human Connection Podcast · Aug 20, 2026 · 21m

"Not all mistakes are equal." — Shruti Rustagi

Shruti Rustagi spent two decades in Fortune 400 strategy roles, most recently at Amazon, before becoming a leadership coach and EQ speaker — and her new book landed the same week this episode drops. Her argument: most executives were never trained on the one skill their job now actually requires, and it's costing them their teams before it shows up on a single dashboard.

Karl and Shruti get into the hat someone left in the middle of a conference table to signal "you're not being heard," the JFK trick for getting your team to actually disagree…