Jarrod Myers: The Climb Is Not the Point

On the Subject of Leadership · Jul 21, 2026 · 1h 12m

We call the move from doing the work to managing the people who do it a promotion — as though there were only one direction worth travelling. Jarrod Myers took that step, ran it for a year, read the results honestly, and stepped back down. This is a conversation about what he learned in the year he held the title, and why giving it back was an act of judgement rather than a failure of nerve.

Jarrod now runs his own venture, Off Script Ventures. Before that he spent more than a decade in enterprise technology sales; before technology, the better part of a decade in social work and…