Trust is the real currency of a room.

principle — attributed to Nicola Kastner

You can feel immediately when a room is real. Trust is the invisible substrate beneath every productive conversation, every meaningful introduction, every actual decision that gets made. Without it, nothing of consequence moves, regardless of what the agenda says is supposed to happen.

The diagnostic a practitioner uses to read whether an environment is going to produce anything.

atmosphere, trust, room-feel, authenticity