Why Leadership Without Intuition Is a Risk We Can No Longer Afford

By Heather Ogilvie 

Author of The Intelligent Body: The Real Reason for Obesity and Fast-Track Millionairess: The Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom on Her Terms

In business, we are taught to trust data, analysis, strategy, and logic.

But the most successful leaders—the ones who build not just empires, but legacies—are the ones who trust something more powerful:
Their instinct. Their intuition. Their gut.

And the truth is, those aren’t vague concepts.
They are deeply practical human intelligences — and we are ignoring them at our peril.

Leadership Requires More Than Intelligence — It Requires Integration

Most corporate environments value thinking over feeling, intellect over sensing.
But thinking alone is no longer enough.

When you rely only on logic, you miss early warning signs.
You miss gut pulls toward opportunity.
You miss the soul-deep knowing that tells you, this is right or this is wrong, often long before your conscious mind can articulate why.

You become reactive instead of proactive.
You chase, instead of create.

Great leadership is not purely rational.
It’s felt.

It’s the ability to listen to both the data and the quiet knowing behind the data.
It’s the ability to read the energy of a room, a market, a situation — and move accordingly.

How to Tell If You're Aligned (Or Not)

Ask yourself:

• When you think about a decision, do you feel tension or flow in your body?

• Are you pursuing a goal because it feeds your ego — or because it feeds your deeper sense of meaning?

• After you agree to something (a contract, a hire, a partnership), do you feel expanded — or do you feel slightly sick or constricted inside?

• Does your work nourish your energy — or deplete it?

Your body knows.
It always knows.
We’ve simply been trained to dismiss the knowledge.

Alignment isn't just a feel-good concept.
It’s an operational necessity if you want sustainability, innovation, and impact at scale.

A leader disconnected from their intuition is one who makes decisions based on surface metrics, rather than deep signals.
In today's complex and changing world, surface thinking is a dangerous luxury we can no longer afford.

Why This Matters More Than Ever

When you are in alignment — head, heart, gut — you:

✔ See opportunities others miss
✔ Move with certainty when the path isn't fully clear
✔ Build cultures based on trust, not fear
✔ Attract the right people, partners, and paths with ease
✔ Create businesses and lives that are sustainable, profitable, and fulfilling

When you’re out of alignment, no strategy in the world can compensate.
Your energy shows it.
Your results reflect it.
And your soul feels the weight of it.

The Call to Action

You don’t need another leadership manual.

You need to remember how to listen — first to yourself, and then to the world.

That’s exactly why I wrote The Intelligent Body: The Real Reason for Obesity.

Although the book begins with the body, it’s not really about weight.
It’s about how disconnection — from feeling, intuition, energy, and inner authority — is the real crisis facing us all.

It’s about coming back into full human intelligence — body, mind, energy, and soul — and leading from a place of integrity, presence, and truth.

✅ You can find The Intelligent Body on Amazon (Hardback, Paperback, Kindle) or download the instant eBook at www.islaywellness.com.

✅ It’s time to lead with all of you — not just your mind.
The world is ready.