Stop Coaching the Person. Design the Interface.

TheAutisticLeader™️ Podcast · Jul 19, 2026 · 19m

Season 2 · Episode 3.

Someone capable on your team keeps getting coached on communication, and nothing changes. If it were a person problem, the standard treatments would eventually work. They keep not working, because the failure is being located in the wrong place.

This episode opens Arc 2, Where Signal Gets Lost (the Cognitive Translation Protocol). Every decision your organization makes runs down a line, from what one person knows to a judgment someone acts on. The first crossing on that line, the interface between how one person thinks and how the room listens, is where signal dies. A…