Your sprint reviews and your “no blame” retrospectives — that’s not just process. That’s human Role Modelship happening in real time. Every sprint, someone on your team learns how to handle ambiguity, own a mistake, or lift a struggling teammate, because they watched someone else do it first. Role Modelship™ is a framework for making stewardship, fellowship, mentorship, leadership and sponsorship deliberate practices, not accidents of culture. Show up. See the gap. Be the role model your team is learning from.

Eli Potter is the author of Role Modelship, and a Silicon Valley technology executive who has advised more than 150 companies on human values and converting technology into economic value.