Why Smart Leaders Keep Losing the Day to Urgent Work | The Intentionality Intensive

68%. That is the percentage of leaders I have assessed who score lowest on the same element. Not one of their gaps. Their primary one. The element is Act with Intentionality.

If you have ever ended the week exhausted but not sure you moved the right things forward, that feeling has a name. And in this episode, I dig into what is behind it, what it is costing you, and what I am building to close the gap.

What You'll Learn

• Why Act with Intentionality is the most common primary gap across all leaders assessed

• The five specific behaviors that define intentional leadership and how leaders score across each one

• Why high-performance environments are structurally designed to make intentional leadership harder

• What the Intentionality Intensive is and whether it is the right next step for you

Key Takeaway

"I know what I should be doing. I just never get to it." That sentence is the gap. Not a lack of knowledge. Not a lack of motivation. A structural problem. And structural problems need structural solutions.

Is This Cohort for You?

• Do you regularly end the week busy but unsure you moved your most important work forward?

• Do you know your priorities, but your plan does not reflect them?

• Does the urgent stuff consistently win over the important stuff?

• Have you read the books, know the concepts, but the behavior has not changed?

If any of those landed, the Intentionality Intensive was built for you. A 30-day cohort experience. Four live sessions. Twelve leaders. $297. Running two to three times per year.

Resources

• Intentionality Intensive, launching summer 2026. Sign up or join the waitlist

• IMPACT Leadership Assessment — Identify your primary leadership development gap

• The Leadership Hub — Monthly LinkedIn newsletter

• Jodie Hylkema Coaching — Coaching for Leaders who dare to be human

Connect

• amplifyingimpactevents.com

• amplifyingimpactpodcast.com

• events@amplifyingimpactevents.com

Thanks for listening. If this episode helped you think differently about how you lead, share it with another leader who is ready to move beyond conventional approaches. Leadership is better when we lift each other up.

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