Leaders: Are You A Shit Umbrella or a Shit Funnel? Tanu Tiwar | E9

**Tanu Tiwari: Why Your Team's Disengagement Is a Leadership Design Problem** Global employee engagement just hit its lowest point since 2020, the first two consecutive years of decline ever recorded. Manager engagement collapsed from 31% to 22% since 2022. Ten trillion dollars in lost productivity. No region on earth saw an increase. Tanu Tiwari spent 18 years inside global tech and Fortune 500 companies in marketing, data analytics, and leadership. She's now an ICF certified leadership coach, founder of The Conscious Leader Company, and author of the forthcoming book *Disengaged: Turning Passive Teams into Proactive Microcultures*. In this conversation, Tanu breaks down: - Why every leader is building a "microculture" whether they realize it or not, and the nine conditions in her PROACTIVE framework that determine whether it's healthy - The difference between a "shit umbrella" leader and a "shit funnel" leader, with real examples of what each looks like in a Tuesday afternoon meeting - Why she thinks most "AI layoffs" are companies using AI as cover for business models that were already failing - The three things people need from a leader to stay engaged: to feel seen, significant, and safe - Her own story of working through labor and flying to a trade show five months postpartum, and what it taught her about identity and burnout Tanu also built a free AI tool that scores your team's culture stack against her nine conditions. **Connect with Tanu:** Substack, Invisible Lessons: https://invisiblelessons.substack.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bytanutiwari/ Instagram/TikTok: @theconsciousleaderco Website: theconsciousleaderco.com **Referenced in this episode:** Simon Sinek's conversation with Bob Chapman, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller, on *A Bit of Optimism* — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6766oydXpw