How to deal with a RTO office mandate

Hope + Possibilities: Trust, Leadership + Strategic Foresight · Mar 17, 2023 · 18m

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Recently I had to sort through an ethical dilemma.

I was approached by an organization to help with their return to office mandate. There was to be a keynote and a panel interview. It got cancelled yesterday but I still think it's important to talk about my approach to resolving this conflict.

If you know anything about my work at all, you know that I'm in favour of autonomy. Autonomy and mandates are polar opposites.

As an external consultant, the organization was not coming to me to ask if I thought the mandate was…