Your most trusted, longest-tenured leader may be your biggest expense — and their salary isn't why.

In this episode of Lena Speaks, executive coach and leadership strategist Jealeania "Lena" Morris introduces a concept most organizations have never named: the worth gap — the distance between what a leader costs and what they actually compound. Because being "needed" and being "valuable" are not the same thing. One builds an organization. The other builds dependency with an excellent compensation package.

Drawing from real executive coaching engagements, Lena walks through the Marcus case study — a senior VP with 22 years of tenure, spotless metrics, and a team that has stopped thinking — to reveal how the most loyal leaders in your building often become the most expensive bottlenecks, and why a performance conversation is the wrong to ...