Dr. Kester Crosse sat down on the set of Doctors with Dr. M, white coat on and Open Doors in hand. Details of where to watch the conversation will be posted on the Watch page as soon as they are available.
Some rooms you walk into and the values are on the wall. Literally.
The set of Doctors with Dr. M is ringed with the words the show is built on: listening, validation, support, resilience, change. That happens to be a fair summary of the part of medicine that is not medicine, and of the part of every career the credential does not cover.
So that is where he sat down, white coat on, book in hand, to talk about how doors actually open.
The message he brought with him
The same day the photograph was taken, Dr. Crosse posted four sentences that belong next to it, because they are the whole argument in miniature:
Your phone may be saying more than you think. Presence matters. Put the phone away. Not face down. AWAY.
A recording studio is one of the few rooms left where everyone accepts this without argument. The microphone is on, so the phone is gone, and the conversation is better for it. The discipline the studio forces is the discipline Open Doors asks you to choose everywhere else: in the interview, at the dinner, in the meeting where your name comes up after you leave.
What the phone costs when the stakes are visible is covered in The Phone in the Room Where It Is Decided, and what it costs when they are not in The Phone on the Table. The set just made the point photogenic.
The same message, every room
This is not a one-off appearance. It is the pattern. Earlier this month he took the business of medicine to The ReBuild. In September he takes the exposure argument back to Hampton University for the KAPEX Leadership Summit. Here he brought presence to a set painted with the words listening, validation and resilience.
Different rooms, one message: the values on the book's cover, emotional intelligence, communication and networking, are what turn talent into career success, and they can be named, practised and measured. That is what the TEEE Score is for, and it is free.
When the conversation is available to watch, it will be on the Watch page. Until then, the photograph says most of it: the values on the wall, the book in hand, and not a phone in sight.
Score yourself on the four that matter
Talent opened the first door. The free TEEE Score tells you which of the other three is costing you the ones after it.
Frequently asked
Where can I watch the conversation?
Details will be posted on the Watch page at opendoorssuccess.com/watch as soon as they are available.
Why put the phone away rather than face down?
Face down still signals that the phone is waiting. In the research covered in The Phone on the Table, what mattered was distance rather than orientation: out of sight is the version that works.
What does the phone have to do with career skills?
Open Doors treats presence as a learnable professional skill. The book argues that talent opens the first door and behaviours like presence decide the doors after it.