Stuart Chittenden
Free Lesson

Define Who You Are Beyond Being Needed

30 min
Oct 6, 2026 1:00 PM

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What you'll learn

Analyze How Being Needed Shapes Your Identity

Examine how usefulness, responsibility, and being relied upon have become part of how you understand yourself.

Evaluate What Leadership Gives and Crowds Out

Assess what your role gives you in meaning and worth, and which other parts of yourself may have lost space.

Reframe How You Want to Contribute Next

Identify ways to remain useful and purposeful without asking your current leadership role to define all of you.

Why this topic matters

Leadership can make being useful, relied upon, and needed central to identity. That can bring purpose, but it can also narrow who you are and make change feel threatening. Examining "neededness" helps leaders separate role from self, recover crowded-out parts of identity, and consider how they want to contribute next without abandoning the value of service.

You'll learn from

Stuart Chittenden

Stuart Chittenden

Existential coach, Certified Humanist Professional, and radio show host

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