If you accept the role others assign you, you inherit its limits. Re-create yourself before the room fixes you permanently.
Design a persona that suits the moment: expert, loyal lieutenant, reformer, outsider, visionary. Signal it through style, speech, alliances, and visible behavior. People accept transformation when it is staged and repeated. They resist sudden changes that feel unstable.
Keep some mystery. Overexplaining invites inspection. Choose what others are allowed to know and what they are never allowed to confirm. Your identity is a frame, and frames shape interpretation.
Re-creation is not pretending to be someone else. It is selecting what is emphasized, what is concealed, and what is consistent. You are constructed whether you like it or not. Better to construct yourself than to be constructed by gossip. When you control your image, you control how your actions are judged. That is a form of power that travels with you.