1) A redemption story can still be excruciatingly uncomfortable and enough to make it impossible for an executive to do their jobs. 2) I suggest 'reading compr

1) A redemption story can still be excruciatingly uncomfortable and enough to make it impossible for an executive to do their jobs. 2) I suggest 'reading comprehension' may help us find that in many cases these stories are not as redemptive as the author may think. If there story were two paragraphs, and he 'saw the light' by the end of Uni or something. If you're going to do this kind of writing publicly as an executive, you literally need to have some kind of PR person help you do it, so that you can frame it in the right way. Most people don't have a very good instinct for how things will be received. And unfortunately many people will misinterpret it, and so there's always a lot of risk in it, it's a hard story to tell. But it probably can be done carefully.