Developing the Leadership Edge No One Talks About: Intuition

Every leader has had that moment—an idea that seems to appear out of thin air, an insight that arrives before the data does, a knowing that feels almost unfairly accurate. That is intuition at work. And while it feels mysterious, it’s anything but magic.

Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman famously described System 1 Thinking as fast, pattern-based, unconscious processing—the mind’s ability to recognize subtle cues long before we’re aware of what we’re seeing. Intuition is this system operating at full strength: the ability to spot hidden patterns in people, systems, and situations, and turn them into meaningful insights. When leaders learn to train this skill, they gain an advantage that’s hard to compete with.

Most of the world moves too fast for slow, linear analysis. Decisions with impact now demand clarity at the speed of perception. Developing intuition creates exactly that—an early-warning system for risk, a spotlight for opportunity, and a deeper sense of what’s really going on beneath the surface. It’s the skill that lets you “see” what others miss, often before they even realize something is happening.

The Developing Your Skill of Intuition program, co-sponsored by the internationally renowned Art of Science Learning Group from New York and the WRN, is designed to accelerate this capacity through science and art—combining system-thinking models, hands-on pattern recognition, and sensory awareness practices that sharpen your perception of the world around you. It helps leaders bring the invisible into focus and act from a place of clarity, confidence, and calm.

In a world of volatility and complexity, intuition may just be the most future-ready leadership skill you can develop.

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Joseph Willmott, CEO of World Referral Network

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