There’s a moment when you realize something uncomfortable.

Everyone in the room sounds reasonable. Everyone has a perspective. Everyone is impacted. And none of that tells you who can actually move this forward.

Stakeholder anxiety doesn’t come from conflict. It comes from diffusion — too many voices, too many priorities, too much concern for how things land, and not enough clarity about what actually decides.

This is where most people get stuck trying to manage relationships instead of reading power.

Stakeholders are not defined by how passionate they are. They’re defined by what they can protect, delay, approve, or stop.

Some people influence. Some people advise. Some people absorb consequences. And one or two people — quietly — decide.

The work here isn’t to make everyone comfortable.

It’s to get honest — about incentives, about exposure, about what each person needs… not what they say they want.

Because underneath every conversation that goes in circles is a question no one has asked plainly enough:

What do you want?

Not in theory. Not eventually. Not if everyone agrees. What do you want — now — and what happens if you don’t get it?

This room helps you separate signal from noise so you stop mistaking activity for alignment and start engaging the people who actually shape the outcome.

Clarity doesn’t require cruelty.

But it does require focus.