The problem with leadership culture today | Vaney Hariri | TEDxSioux Falls

We've built a culture that treats leaders like products — rated, blamed, and discarded when they disappoint. But what does that cost the person inside the role? Drawing on a decade of confidential conversations with leaders across industries, Customer Culture exposes the hidden psychological toll of a world that demands everything from its leaders and gives almost nothing back — and issues an urgent call to replace a culture of consumption with one of community, before the wrong people are the only ones still willing to lead. Vaney Hariri is a Sioux Falls-based strategist, facilitator, and keynote speaker, and co-founder of Think 3D Solutions. For over a decade, Vaney has worked at the intersection of leadership development and civic engagement — building programs like Leaders of Tomorrow and the Bridging the Gap initiative, and developing frameworks that help organizations and communities grow with intention. A 2019 TEDxSiouxFalls speaker ("Low on Leaders"), Vaney is known for direct, practitioner-rooted insight earned through hundreds of real conversations with leaders across industries. The belief driving it all: the best leaders don't just lead people — they build the conditions for others to rise. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx