Stands above the crowd?

Usage examples of podiums.

Eventually, joined by other stairways from other podiums in other rooms, it led to a single, guarded outside door where the armored cars waited.

She switched on the colored overhead lights, and there, mounted on various platforms and podiums, were forty lifelike corpses.

Teron stood in the middle of the floor, facing a half-circle of high masters seated behind tall podiums of white onyx.

Scribes stood behind little portable podiums, each with stylus or quill poised to write for folk who had money but no letters.

Again, to use the vernacular, when the shit hits the fan - as it surely will - the performers on all sides will step up to the podiums and scream their screams of treason and righteous "internal revolt" because there's nothing else the performers can do.