It’s time to move past the outdated portrayals of leaders as lifeless portraits of white presidents from history. Society desperately needs contemporary figures who embody leadership in everyday realities—those wearing relaxed, comfortable attire while managing the chaos of parenting, such as cleaning up baby spit-up, tackling household messes, or handling endless loads of laundry.
Have you ever conducted an image search for terms like ‘leader,’ ‘CEO,’ ‘executive,’ ‘boss,’ or ‘founder’? The outcomes are strikingly underwhelming and lack diversity. Back in 2021, I captured a series of screenshots from these searches, and remarkably, they remain just as pertinent today. This is because large language models, or LLMs, continue to train on these very same stereotypical visuals, perpetuating the narrow view of authority.
A simple query on stock photo platforms like UnSplash reveals page after page of monotonous results, dominated by conventional depictions that fail to reflect the multifaceted nature of modern leadership roles.
