What are your superpowers?

This weekend, I was flipping through TV channels (yes, cable, not streaming, my wife loves it), and Shazam! was on. There’s a scene where one boy asks the other: “What’s your superpower?” It made me pause.

Not long ago, after recording the Yogination Gratitude Podcast, Yogesh asked me the same question offline: “Michael, what are your superpowers?”

That combination got me thinking, do we really know what our superpowers are? How do we describe them? How do we grow them?

For me, my superpowers have revealed themselves over time:

• Strategic vision & storytelling → turning complex challenges like datacenter exits or hybrid cloud adoption into simple stories people believe in.
• Relationship building → connecting with C-levels, engineers, and peers, creating trust that lasts long after the deal is closed.
• Transformation at scale → thriving in the messy middle of multi-year migrations and helping customers move with confidence.
• Hands-on technologist → not just talking about solutions but actually building them writing Python scripts, testing APIs, automating what’s possible.
• Gratitude-driven leadership → showing up authentically, celebrating wins, and lifting others to succeed alongside me.

But here’s the thing: superpowers aren’t static. They don’t just show up fully formed. They need constant work:

• Finding them → noticing where people rely on you, what feels natural when others find it hard.
• Building them → practicing, failing forward, stepping into new challenges that sharpen them.
• Adjusting them → reinventing as the world and your role change.
• Taking advantage of them → leaning in intentionally, moving them from “potential” to “production” so they create real value for others.
• If you feel like you don’t have any → start small. Borrow a skill you admire in others, practice it, and let experience shape it into your own.

So I’ll turn the question to you:

Do you know your superpowers? How do you nurture, refine, and integrate them into production to benefit others?

I’ve listed mine; I’m curious about yours.