Muted

Leadership Demands Presence

LEADERSHIP HASN’T DISAPPEARED, BUT IT’S GONE QUIET. 

In meetings, in feedback, in development conversations—we’re still working, still delivering . . . but not really leading. Something essential has been lost: presence. We’re managing dashboards, sending emails, and sitting in video calls, but people are drifting, talent is stalling, and the next generation of leaders is wondering if anyone sees them. 

Muted: Leadership Demands Presence is not about remote work. It’s a call to intentionally rehumanize leadership. With bold clarity and hard-earned wisdom, executive Becky Sawyer reveals how development disappeared, visibility faded, and leadership became something we assumed could be done quietly. 

You’ll learn how to: 

  • Lead meetings that actually grow people 
  • Coach in real time without a formal program 
  • Give feedback that builds identity, not just improvement 
  • Stretch people with belief, not burnout 
  • Reclaim visibility without being performative 

This book is for the leader who wants to show up, not just check in. For the manager who knows something’s off but hasn’t had the words for it. And for every rising professional who’s wondering why they feel stuck, unseen, or unsure where leadership even lives anymore. 

Because leadership doesn’t scale through policies; it scales through presence.

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ISBN: 979-8-90026-020-4
SKU: 18-1567-01
Categories:Human Resources, Leadership and Management

Becky Sawyer

Healthcare Executive and Thought Leader

Becky Sawyer is an executive vice president and chief people officer for a $13 billion integrated health system, where she leads people strategy for more than 34,000 team members. She has spent over three decades in healthcare and human resources, working at the intersection of leadership, talent, and transformation. 

Throughout her career, Becky has walked with leaders through disruption and change. From the early days of her HR career to the unprecedented season of the COVID-19 pandemic, she has seen how presence, clarity, and development shape not only performance but safety, trust, and the future of organizations. 

Becky is the founder of The Brave Current™, a body of work focused on helping leaders show up with more presence, courage, and purpose in a modern, noisy workplace. Her writing and speaking blend story, research, and practical tools that leaders can use with their teams the very next day. 

In addition to her executive role, Becky is a leadership speaker and advisor. She is passionate about developing leaders at every level—board, executive, senior, mid-career, and emerging—with a special focus on the “forgotten middle,” building systems where good work is seen without self-promotion, and making development something people can feel, not just read about in a slide deck. 

Becky lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she values family, friendship, laughter, and connection as much as meaningful work. When she is not with leaders or teams, you can find her with the people she loves, near the water, or quietly thinking about how to help the next generation of leaders lead and live with greater presence. 

She is building the Muted series as an ongoing exploration of leadership, life, and legacy in an age that demands presence.

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