You’ve been told you’re really capable. Your appraisals are great. You care deeply about your patients and your team. So why does it feel like nobody’s actually listening to you?
It’s a pattern I see constantly in healthcare – committed people who are working flat out, doing everything right, and still watching their ideas get overlooked, their suggestions being ignored, and their careers stalling..
The frustrating truth is that working harder doesn’t fix this. What’s missing isn’t effort, it’s political intelligence – and in this episode of You Are Not a Frog, I sit down with executive coaches Sam Pearce and Sally Powell to unpack exactly what that means and how to build it.
Sam and Sally, co-founders of Impactful Women, have spent years helping women (and men) in leadership get the influence and traction they deserve. Their core message is both simple and a bit confronting: excellence is not a visibility strategy. The good news? This is a learnable skill – and healthcare professionals actually have a natural advantage they’re not using.
They also get into the home front: the mental load, renegotiating the balance with a partner, and why default responsibility is the thing draining so many people’s bandwidth.
If you’ve ever felt frustrated that suggestions that doing the right thing for your patients just isn’t enough to make it happen, this episode will shift how you think about influence – and give you a very practical place to start.
