Are You Making Decisions With the Wrong People in the Room? with Kylee Ingram
What if your next bad business decision has nothing to do with your intelligence, your intuition, or your strategy?
This episode is one of those “oh wow, I may have been accidentally making life harder” conversations.
Because so often, we think strong leadership means carrying the decision alone. Being the one with the answer. Knowing the next move. Holding the whole vision in your brain like some kind of high-functioning human spreadsheet.
Except… that might be the exact thing creating blind spots.
In this episode, I’m joined by Kylee Ingram, co-founder of Wizer, for a conversation on cognitive diversity in decision-making, why leaders need to design better decision rooms, and how the right mix of people can help you make smarter, more aligned choices.
And no, this is not about having more meetings.
It’s about making better ones.
Episode Summary
In this episode, Kylee Ingram shares how cognitive diversity, decision science, and intentional team design can help leaders make better business decisions. We talk about why group decision-making can either create better outcomes or amplify bias, depending on who is in the room and how the decision is made.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode
- Why smart leaders still make decisions with major blind spots
- The real reason the loudest voice in the room often wins
- How cognitive diversity helps teams make better decisions
- Why disagreement can be productive instead of personal
- The three decision-making biases that quietly shape outcomes
- Why women are often left out of the room, and why that hurts everyone
- How small business owners can use decision profiles to hire and collaborate better
- Why “messy action” people need process-driven people, and vice versa
- How to stop seeing “difficult people” as the problem and start understanding how they make decisions
- Why better decision-making starts with asking: who’s missing?
Key Takeaways
- Better decisions are designed, not guessed
- Cognitive diversity is not a nice bonus. It is a business advantage.
- Disagreement is not the enemy
- Your team may be stuck because the wrong voices are missing
- Self-awareness makes you a better leader
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Why It Matters
If you are building a business, leading a team, hiring support, pitching a collaboration, or trying to make your next big move, decision-making matters.
Not just the decision itself.
The room around the decision.
Because the cost of staying stuck is not just wasted time. It is missed opportunities. It is repeating the same leadership patterns. It is building a business that depends on you carrying everything alone.
Your future self does not need you to become the smartest person in every room.
She needs you to build better rooms.
Rooms with the right people.
The right questions.
The right perspectives.
The right process.
That is how you create more ease, more clarity, and more aligned growth without making yourself the bottleneck.
This Episode Is For You If…
- You are tired of being the only one making every decision
- You lead a small team and want to hire smarter
- You struggle with “difficult people” and want a better way to understand them
- You know your business needs structure, but too much process makes your soul leave your body
- You want to make better business decisions without overthinking everything
- You are pitching, collaborating, or trying to get buy-in from people who think differently than you
- You want to understand your leadership blind spots
- You are ready to stop carrying the whole room on your back
Listen to the full episode to learn how cognitive diversity can help you make better business decisions, build stronger teams, and stop letting hidden bias run the show.
“The best leaders don’t have all the answers and you need to create conditions for better answers to emerge. And part of that is understanding your people, understanding their perspectives and understanding this ways people come at decisions.” Kylee Ingram
Meet Kylee
Kylee Ingram is the co-founder and CEO of Wizer Technologies, a platform focused on improving how decisions are made inside organisations. Her work draws on research in cognitive diversity, behavioural science, and wise crowd theory to help leaders design stronger decision environments and reduce blind spots. Before founding Wizer, Kylee worked in interactive media and storytelling, creating digital experiences recognised at international festivals including SXSW and Cannes.
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