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Mark Scully on compassion, masking, and changing how firms manage people
What if the story you’ve told yourself about your career is missing the most important chapter? Mark Scully trained in law, pivoted into tax at a Big Four firm, climbed to director, and then made the bravest move of all: reframing his entire journey through a late autism diagnosis and launching Braver to help leaders manage people, not processes.
We unpack the messy middle between academic success and workplace reality—unwritten rules, social subtext, and the survival tactic of saying yes to everything. Mark shares how burnout led him to counselling and coaching, and how a simple screening…
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