I’ve seen designers turn into leaders without realizing it.

They start doing “small” things:

• writing the decision summary after the meeting

• naming the open risk nobody wants to name

• setting the decision date

• clarifying who owns what

At first it looks “administrative”.

Then something shifts.

People start forwarding their notes.

Asking their opinion earlier.

Inviting them before options harden.

And not because they asked to be seen.

Simply because they became the person who makes uncertainty tolerable.