People tend to treat you based on who THEY think you are, not who YOU think you are.

So you’re not going to be invited into the room if you’re not perceived as someone who should be in there. You’re not going to be in the rooms where strategy is discussed if you’re not perceived as having ideas that could help. So in many ways, your skill and the value you think you bring to an organization is important, but only if decision-makers see it that way too.