Have you ever unraveled over a one word email? Or spiraled because someone "saw" your message but didn't respond?

Katherine dives into the invisible signals shaping today's workplace: digital body language. Inspired by Erica Dhawan's work and Katherine's real world leadership experience, this conversation explores how response time, punctuation, brevity, silence, and even channel choice are constantly communicating on your behalf. In a world where 70% of communication is virtual, leaders are sending signals about trust, respect, urgency, and inclusion whether they mean to or not.

If leadership is relational, then digital communication cannot be transactional. Katherine unpacks practical shifts people-first leaders can make immediately to reduce anxiety, build clarity, and strengthen connection. Because the impact you make through a screen is still very real and it is shaping your culture every single day.

Additional Resources:

Read "Digital Body Language" by Erica Dhawan

Connect with Katherine Coble on LinkedIn

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Watch Gut + Science (and more) on YouTube!

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Key Takeaways:

• Response time communicates priority, trust, and respect.
• Brevity without warmth creates digital anxiety.
• Channel choice signals leadership intention.
• Clarity in writing is modern workplace empathy.
• Silence always sends a message.