08/26/2025

Why Sleep is the New Secret Weapon for Effective Leadership

Combine the two to accelerate your skills

We celebrate presence, precision and high performance in leadership. But we ignore the very foundation that powers all three: sleep. Why do we still treat sleep and leadership as separate conversations when it may be our greatest advantage? I didn’t fully understand that until one of the busiest seasons of my career left me foggy, depleted and quietly unraveling.

We were rolling out a job leveling system and new applicant tracking system, restructuring a global division and shifting to hybrid work, all during a pandemic. My sleep was fractured, my health declined, my decisions dulled and my confidence wavered.

Then, one weekend, I crashed — hard. I slept 11 hours straight.

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