“Your gut is your second brain.” — Ellen Muellenberg, JD
At a recent gathering of Medical Staff Specialists (the often unheralded professionals who help safeguard patients from unqualified physicians), Ellen urged us to listen to that inner voice. Call it intuition, an inner expert, or simply a “hunch”...that quiet signal that something deserves a closer look.
How many troubling headlines might have been avoided if someone, perhaps you, had raised a hand and spoken up? If they had voiced that feeling of discomfort, that moment of doubt, that instinct that something wasn’t quite right?
Too often, nervousness, peer pressure, fear, or shyness silence this critical part of us, to the detriment of others…and sometimes, to tomorrow’s headlines.
I teach and coach emerging leaders to lead creatively, challenge the status quo, and move beyond the “same old, same old.”