Overview
""Timely, necessary, and hopeful."" The Anxious Leader offers a transformative perspective on managing anxiety within leadership roles. Through engaging narratives and practical insights, this book explores the often overlooked but crucial relationship between anxiety and effective leadership. It emphasises how understanding and embracing anxiety can enhance decision-making, foster resilience, and improve team dynamics. Drawing from systems-psychodynamic theory and real-world experiences, it provides tools to navigate the complexities of modern organisational life. Ideal for leaders seeking to thrive in volatile and unpredictable environments, this book redefines anxiety as a powerful asset rather than a hindrance, concluding with a psycho-spiritual twist. ""If you're ready to look beneath the surface - if you want to lead with more courage, clarity, and care, especially when the stakes are high - you couldn't be in better hands."" Dr Sarah Hughes, CEO Mind UK
Full Product Details
Author: Garath Symonds
Publisher: Reconnect
Imprint: Reconnect
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.229kg
ISBN: 9781399981651
ISBN 10: 139998165
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 15 August 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""If you're ready to look beneath the surface - if you want to lead with more courage, clarity, and care, especially when the stakes are high - you couldn't be in better hands."" Dr Sarah Hughes, CEO Mind UK ""When tracked to their roots, most of our behaviors, whether at home or work, are anxiety-management responses, whether we know it or not. Garath Symonds' book ferrets out many of these anxiety-driven responses, makes them conscious, and provides some alternative approaches. Until we undertake this detective work, we, and those around us, remain anxiety-driven prisoners of our unconscious systems."" James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Jungian Analyst in Washington.
Author Information
Garath Symonds founded Reconnect in 2018 after a career in public sector leadership, where he gained experienced in running large operations, responsible for revenue budgets over £100 million per year and staff teams of over 1000 people. Garath has advised multiple CEOs and other senior leaders, and supported numerous executive teams, coaching and consulting across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, both in the UK and internationally. Having logged over 1000 hours of coaching, Garath is a European Mentoring & Coaching Council accredited senior practitioner. In his book, The Anxious Leader, he explores the impact of anxiety on leaders and organisational life from the perspective of the Tavistock Tradition.
