How to regulate tension without retreating, fracturing, or escalating in front of the room.   What It Looks Like:A tense moment hits in a high-stakes room—boardroom, broadcast, leadership circle. Challenge surfaces. Someone pushes. The leader reacts: defends, sharpens, retreats, or freezes. Even if the message is intact, the signal destabilizes. The room mirrors the fracture.   After the Behavior is Integrated:He meets the tension—but doesn’t feed it. He slows the tempo, anchors his breath, grou...