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Podcast: Inspired Leadership with Ron Kelleher
Episode: IL #679: The Cost of Being the First Voice
Description: In this episode, The Cost of Being the First Voice, we step into a quiet leadership moment that many have experienced but few talk about—the tension that comes when you speak up early, before a problem becomes obvious to everyone else. At Bradley & Co. Solutions, influence is usually loud, visible, and attached to titles. But Sam Gutierrez isn't that kind of leader. A quiet senior analyst, Sam notices a subtle pattern in the supply chain—nothing urgent, nothing dramatic, just early signals that something may be drifting off course. He raises the concern gently, without alarm or u...