Why Intuition is the Leadership Edge
In most organisations, rational talk dominates: reports, decks, bullet points. Useful, but incomplete. Intuition reads context fast: emotion, energy, timing, safety. When you treat intuition as a first-class input, decisions accelerate and relationships deepen, because you’re speaking the body’s language where trust actually forms. Think of it as an advanced operating system - faster and more nuanced than logic alone.
Stop Fitting In: Invite Others to Rise
If your default is to shrink so others feel comfortable, you dilute your signal. New rule: if someone doesn’t “get” intuition, let them do the work. Explain your method when it serves, but don’t contort your process to be more “rational” for optics. Treat intuition like a foreign language: immersion is how fluency happens. Your job is to lead fluently, not translate yourself into something you’re not.
From People-Pleasing to Principled Clarity
People-pleasing keeps you agreeable - and misaligned. It’s a blocker to owning your intuitive gifts. Decouple approval from expression: set the standard, state the boundary, and communicate why it matters for outcomes. The paradox? Respect increases when self-editing decreases, because teams feel your congruence.
Reclaim “too much”
Many leaders—especially those socialised into the feminine, are told they’re “too much.” Flip it. If someone labels your full expression as excess, that’s information about their capacity, not your value. The feminine isn’t meant to fit inside a masculine-defined box; it’s meant to take up its natural space. Own it without apology.
Five Practices to Operationalise Intuitive Leadership
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Body-first check-ins: Before big decisions, scan: Where do I feel open/tight? What’s the signal? Capture it, then let logic stress-test.
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Obituary exercise: Write your obituary. Have it read aloud. Extract three lines you want to be true in ten years. Use them as a decision filter.
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Language audit: Notice where you over-explain to sound “rational.” Replace with succinct, embodied statements of truth.
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Educate, don’t convince: Share frameworks when invited, but stop arguing for your method. Model results; let aligned people lean in.
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Boundary reps: Each week, set one clean boundary where you’d normally appease. Track the outcome and your energy.
The Payoff
When intuition leads and logic supports, you ship better work with less churn. Meetings shorten because you’re naming what’s actually in the room. Teams trust your read of situations. And you stop outsourcing your authority to approval, because you’re operating from a coherent North Star instead of from fear.
