The Presider

The Presider runs her thumbs along the comforting lip of the lectern. Clears her throat and opens with a personal anecdote.

The Presider adjusts her chair at the head of the boardroom table and squares the papers before her. Surveys the downcast faces lit by laptop screens.

The Presider steps across the cut ribbon and escorts the VIPs around the new facility. Funded, designed, and built by the toil of others.

The Presider taps out platitudes in an All Staff email. Achievement by association.

While others decide and do.

Presiders preside.