Dr. Rodney Agan:
From Insecurity to Identity

You probably remember that feeling.

Standing in line on the playground, trying to look confident while quietly hoping someone would call your name. Feeling your worth rise or fall based on whether you were picked first, picked last, or not picked at all. You were eight years old, but that moment taught you something about identity that you've been leading from ever since.

That experience didn't stay on the playground. It followed you into the boardroom. It shows up in how you handle criticism, how you claim or don't claim your authority, how you lead when no one is watching versus when everyone is. It lives in the decisions you second-guess, the rooms where you go quiet, and the moments you shrink from the very influence you've spent years earning.

Identity isn't just a childhood story. It's the operating system underneath your leadership. And when it's running on old code, on narratives written before you knew who you were or what you were capable of, even the most accomplished leaders find themselves performing instead of leading. Managing perception instead of creating impact. Executing from obligation instead of moving from purpose.

At The Healthy Leader Group, we believe leadership performance is a mental and emotional capacity challenge before it is a strategy challenge. Dr. Rodney Agan believes the same thing, he just traces it all the way back to the fence line.

Dr. Rodney Agan, PhD, is founder of The Connexus Group, executive advisor, and behavioral scientist who has spent decades helping leaders close the gap between who they are and how they show up. His new book, Pick Me: From Insecurity to Identity, is part story, part science, and part honest reckoning with the narratives we've been leading from without realizing it.

You cannot lead others well from a version of yourself you haven't fully met yet. In this Healthy Leader Expert Forum session, Rodney will connect how we are wired to the mental and emotional capacities that determine how we make decisions, handle pressure, and show up when it counts.

In this session, you will explore:

• How early experiences that shaped your identity are still quietly running your leadership behavior today
• Why pressure exposes your wiring, and how to use that awareness as an advantage instead of a liability
• How to move from leading out of insecurity to leading from a grounded, clear, and aligned identity
• What it looks like to stop managing who you are and start contributing who you actually are

Knowing yourself well enough that confidence stops being a performance and starts being a foundation, that's what this conversation is about.

You were wired on purpose. This conversation will help you lead like it.