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When business partnerships must navigate clients' reactions to gender identity

My business partner identifies as nonbinary and I'm a cisgender woman, and we're realizing our consulting clients respond to us completely differently, but we haven't figured out how to talk about it or whether we should adjust our client-facing strategy or just accept it.

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Professional relationships require constant calibration when the outside world responds differently to partners' identities in ways that affect business outcomes.

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