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Nobody sits a young professional down and tells them the truth. In more than 25 years of watching organizations manage talent, that is the gap I keep coming back to, and it is not a coaching failure. It is an organizational one. An organization can have every retention metric it wants tracked in a dashboard somewhere. It rarely tracks the unspoken cost: the emerging professional who is very talented, who works hard, who genuinely wants to do well, and who watches opportunity

Most organizations respond to the professional character gap with frustration or better hiring. Both miss the point. The gap is not a people problem. It is an organizational one, and closing it starts with the organization owning that distinction.

Twelve weeks ago, I made a quiet decision: show up consistently, with something worth saying. What came back surprised me. Here is what building Plinth Advisors taught me about professional character, and what is coming next.