Human Leadership
On sale
21st November 2025
Price: £29.99
How can you lead with compassion, authenticity and success – whether you’re leading a team or a complex organization?
This wide-ranging collection pulls together leading innovation experts to share their failures, successes and their secrets to being a successful leader. It highlights dilemmas which common to leaders in any organizations, but which are critical to anyone working in human services. These include the power of diversity for improving practice, being an emotionally literate leader, how to handle risk and the blame game and the central role of trauma-informed practice.
Human Leadership is required reading for any leader looking to make a positive impact in the fields of health, social care, mental health, education and other helping professions.
This wide-ranging collection pulls together leading innovation experts to share their failures, successes and their secrets to being a successful leader. It highlights dilemmas which common to leaders in any organizations, but which are critical to anyone working in human services. These include the power of diversity for improving practice, being an emotionally literate leader, how to handle risk and the blame game and the central role of trauma-informed practice.
Human Leadership is required reading for any leader looking to make a positive impact in the fields of health, social care, mental health, education and other helping professions.
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Reviews
Human Leadership illuminates how meeting the great challenges of our time depends on change agents undertaking a profound journey inward, discovering that engaging the complex depths of mind and heart can transform individuals, relationships, systems, and the very meaning of leadership itself
A deeply authentic, thought-provoking and intensely practical book that challenges, provokes, and ultimately empowers those committed to meaningful leadership. The book brings together theoretical foundations with lived experience of leaders to create powerful and practical insight for leaders at all levels working in complex systems in profoundly uncertain times.
A timely reminder of the fundamental value of investing in relationships, effective communications and a strong culture that defaults to doing the right thing - as opposed to simply ticking the boxes
As a leader I know how important it is to keep learning and the chapters in this very readable book challenged and inspired me.
Leadership is not about fitting into pre-set moulds, but about honouring the truth of who you are and courageously stepping forward to make a valuable contribution. In a world that still undervalues Black voices, navigating your own path as a Black leader is an act of courage and sacrifice, which requires ongoing self-care. This book is an insightful excellent read and I would recommend for leaders and would-be leaders.
So often leaders forget to keep learning themselves, but this is book is so compelling, insightful and extremely accessible that it draws the reader into it and is a very timely reminder of the power of personal stories of leadership. It really is excellent and I would recommend this collection to everyone as there is something to learn from each chapter.
This book reminds us that leadership isn't about power - it's about people. Rich in humanity and insight, it's a must-read for anyone who wants to lead with purpose.
This compelling book equips public sector leaders with the insight and relational understanding needed to turn challenges into opportunities. A must-read for anyone leading in the public sector.
Throughout the long-trodden journey of safeguarding child and adults, we need to be constantly reminded to bear witness to the lived experience of victims, survivors and perpetrators if we are to prevent neglect, harm, abuse, exploitation and violence in our families, across our communities and within our workplaces.
This power collection of leadership journeys contains authentic reflections and offers hopefulness that we can learn from each other.
Times are tough, there is no doubt about that. However, what this book shows is that the journey towards human leadership is not paved with easy choices and quick wins. It is a path that is mapped out through experience, interactions with others, support, passion, an ethos of public service and a desire to lift up those around us. Human Leadership can thrive in tough times, and we need it now more than ever.