Thanks so much for this illuminating piece, John! When I have held leadership roles with a DEI/culture and community focus, I often found that vulnerability as a path to institutional change was promoted...yet that approach can be ineffective, or even harmful. Your insights about the distinction between vulnerability and honesty--and their relationship to trust--are tremendously clarifying. It also behooves me to share that I appreciate your point of caution about how vulnerability can be interpreted differently based on position in an organization and/or identity, particularly if a person is a member of an underrepresented group.