HELLO, I'M RAHILA.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST // FORTUNE-LEVEL HR ADVISOR // EXECUTIVE VISIBILITY STRATEGIST
For 23+ years, I’ve been inside the rooms where reputations are shaped, stretch roles are assigned, and futures are decided. I’ve worked with CEOs, founders, and senior leaders across 100+ organizations — helping them become the obvious choice.
Not the loud kind.
Not the self-promotional kind.
The kind that travels ahead of you.
FEATURED IN LEADERSHIP, MEDIA, AND INDUSTRY PLATFORMS:
ZEROBIE
That's one level below newbie.
I built teams.
Solved the hard problems.
Became the advisor leaders called when people issues were tangled, and stakes were high.
And yet — a pattern kept repeating:
Great work isn’t automatically visible.
Not by senior decision-makers.
Not by succession committees.
Not even by the people who admired my contribution behind closed doors.
It wasn’t a “me” problem — it was a structural blind spot.
And like many executives, I tried to outwork it.
I WORKED HARD
Wake-up call.
My background is in neuroscience and leadership psychology. I’ve spent years studying how the brain pays attention, how trust forms, and how reputations take shape.
But here’s the twist:
I wasn’t applying any of that science to my own visibility.
Instead, my wakeup call came in a doctor’s office.
“You’ll lose your eyesight”
The doctor said what I couldn't:
ENOUGH!
I had built a career on brilliance — but also on burnout.
My work lived in private rooms.
My influence stopped at the walls of the organizations I served.
That day drew a line in the sand.
Visibility was a leadership skill I had been postponing.
VISIBILITY SHIFT
Turning point.
Working harder wasn’t the answer.
Burning wasn’t the plan.
So I tried something different.
I published a quarterly magazine, HR Toolkit. Not for attention. For recall.
One issue landed on the desk of the Editor-in-Chief at DAWN. That sparked Dear Workplace Sanity—a weekly column read by 1M+ over a decade.
After that, my reputation started walking into rooms before I did.
My work spread across industries.
Leaders reached out first.
I charged more. Worked less. And started having fun.
I cracked the visibility code.
ICON
A visibility system for leaders.
The ICON Method™ grew from Selection Psychology and lived experience — mine and the senior leaders I’ve guided.
It builds executive visibility through four strategic levers:
Influence — clarify the signal you want to be known for
Connection — shape the story that lets people feel your impact
Outreach — show up in the right places, with the right rhythm
Network — build allies who carry your name into pivotal rooms
ICON isn’t about being everywhere.
It’s about being visible where it matters most.
READY TO be SEEN?
Accelerate your rise with a visibility strategy grounded in Selection Psychology.
Equip your leadership team with the visibility skills that shine a light on your organization.
A Decade of Letters Turned Into a Movement
For ten years, thousands of professionals wrote to me through my column Dear Workplace Sanity, and millions read my advice. Their stories became the backbone of my book Workplace Sanity — and the spark for a mission to help leaders be seen, valued, and understood.
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