[7bit]

Our CEO does this. She talks to a lot of people. Once you start talking business, she clearly doesn't care about your opinion, unless you're praising something. If it's remotely critical or a suggestion to change something, you can see in her eyes she's not even processing the words anymore.

I rather have her not talking to me, because it's much worse knowing she fakes her openness, than actually just not showing up.

[avidiax]

Sounds like some meta-feedback that should be delivered to her. Of course, this kind of person has lots of ways to deflect, so they have to actually genuinely believe in open feedback as a value, and be willing to understand how they are falling short of living up to that value.

In the worst case, they only want to present as open to feedback, while they are using that feedback to build the list of detractors who will be laid off, not promoted, etc. And this kind of personal feedback can really trigger this sort of person.