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For me, a formal leadership role as a managing director of a large referral practice followed from a successful clinical career. It is not uncommon for technically proficient professionals to be promoted into leadership, as I was, and I found it hard. Leading a team of veterinary professionals was demanding, exciting, exhilarating, and rewarding – but also, at times, frustrating, stressful, and exhausting. To try and make this experience easier for me, in the service of the organisations in which I led and through my innate drive to ‘sense‐making’, I have explored the subject of leadership both through formal learning, wide reading and coaching others. I have used this exploration to ask why I found leadership such a challenge and what I would like to have understood before I took on a demanding leadership role. In doing so, in addition to my direct experience, I believe I have learned some lessons about leadership in veterinary medicine that I can usefully share in a way which is, I hope, engaging, and interesting. I have direct experience of leadership on my side, legitimate academic experience, and the time to both read and write.