ABSTRACT
Global Leadership and Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work has brought challenging, in-depth reflection and psychoanalytic insight. It has looked at leadership and the coaching of leaders working in difficult circumstances or under extreme stress, employing a beneath the surface lens. The case studies and individual stories offer fresh research and applied learning to the field of leadership. From war zones to prisons, supermarkets to hospitals, refugee camps to elite sport, this book brings multi-cultural and international perspectives. It draws on examples of leadership in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq, the Central African Republic, Senegal, Honduras, former Czechoslovakia, the UK and the USA. It asks what it takes to be an effective leader in a particular field of work and what the rest of us, perhaps doing a completely different kind of job, can learn.
This book has rigour and candour. If offers reflective learning for both leaders and coaches, in the commercial, public and third sectors. The author Rachel Ellison references her own experience of leading and coaching leaders across more than 35 different nationalities and cultures. Emerging alongside this book’s individual and systemic approach is a call for higher ethics, diversity and sustainability in leadership, in order to increase productivity, innovation and joy in coming to work.
