This pioneering book offers a bold psychologically informed take on leadership for today’s complex and evolving systems. Written for clinical counselling and health psychologists it challenges traditional models and reframes leadership as a dynamic adaptive and systems-aware practice. With a distinctive triadic lens-looking within between and across systems-it integrates psychological theory organisational insight and systems thinking to explore how identity emotion power and context shape leadership and followership in real-world environments. It offers practical tools to navigate relational challenges manage work pressures foster psychological safety and lead with purpose through conflict change and uncertainty. Grounded in lived experience and learning-in-action this book shows how leadership is co-created-through reflective and reflexive practice inclusive collaboration and ethical influence. It argues that sustainable transformational change requires strategic focus courageous engagement with power dynamics and support for leadership at all levels. Essential reading not only for psychologists managers and aspiring leaders but for anyone interested in creating healthier more equitable workplaces and leading with courage compassion and systemic insight. |Rethinking Leadership for Clinical Counselling and Health Psychologists Managing Complexity and Change for Thriving Workplaces
