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Sometimes, I guess, you just have to wait for the right time for things to fall into place.

It’s a decade since I wrote a strategy meant to set out our direction of travel.

But though it was approved by the board at the time, I was never empowered to deliver it.

Actually, a director claimed credit for it, then tasked consecutive managers in his team with delivering on it.

What’s the difference between 2014 and today, when I’m finally progressing our objectives?

Perhaps I was just not ready then, still far too timid to compete with the raucous voices which dominated every conversation.

Maybe only a deep sense of frustration could serve as the impetus to finally force me to push myself forward.

Or perhaps I just needed to wait for the right individuals to slide into view, or the right circumstances to arrange themselves.

Who knows, maybe it would take a whole organisation embracing hybrid working to give me a voice in meetings, where everyone now takes their turn.

For years, I was just considered the reliable chap in the back office who could be trusted to do the work.

Now, I find that I’ve become a leader, consulted even from beyond organisation boundaries.

Could that have happened before now? No, I think I had to await the right circumstances and conditions to coalesce.

Slowly, slowly, everything falls into place.