Heal to Lead: Revolutionizing Leadership through Trauma Healing

by Kelly L. Campbell

By taking radical responsibility for your own healing, you unveil the high-conscious leader within that our world needs right now. You don’t outrun or outgrow the formative experiences that have shaped who you are. So, it makes sense that your emotional history would also be the foundation of your leadership style. If what got you to this point may now be the very thing that is holding you back, then Heal to Lead was written for you. Everything you’ve read about conscious leadership is based on self-awareness and personal growth, yet the missing link has been trauma healing. If you want greater collaboration with your people, the confidence to inspire growth in your organization, and a more meaningful connection to yourself, your community, and the natural world, it’s time to do the inner work. This book shows you how to develop high-conscious leadership, rooted in deep introspection, vulnerability, compassion, and reciprocity with all beings. Inside, former CEO turned trauma-informed leadership coach Kelly L. Campbell walks alongside you as you unpack and process what’s been buried within your psyche. Integrating your past trauma is the key to unlearning the maladaptive strategies that have kept you subconsciously safe until now. With the resources, personal anecdotes, and reflection questions in this book, you will be better able to regulate your emotions and feel more enlivened as you lead from a place of reclamation. As an indicator of your commitment, your organization will ultimately realize greater stability and success. Heal to Lead is a radical departure from the myths that emerging and established leaders like you have been fed for so long. By healing your core wounds, you shed other people’s stories about who you are, releasing the pain and scarcity mindset that keeps you feeling stuck. This liberation finally gives you access to your innate gifts as a leader, and you feel empowered to do the right thing by all as a generative force in the world.

Genres: Leadership, Psychology

256 pages, Hardcover

Published April 30, 2024

Reviews

[Rhonda Babb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Without a doubt, Heal to Lead is a book that all leaders should read.

Author Kelly Campbell has written a work that digs deep into the why behind particular leadership styles. Kelly looks at how childhood traumas, big or small, affect all of us and influence our interpersonal interactions with those we work with or for. The author shares personal and raw stories from their life to illustrate many of the themes in the work. This willingness to connect to the reader made this book feel accessible and relatable, devoid of jargon or business-speak. Even more striking are the on-point and timely parallels drawn in the work to what is happening in the world right now and how low-conscious leaders are pulling us onto a dangerous path. If more leaders would embark on healing journeys, we might be able to create a healthier, more open, and accepting society prepared for the challenges to come.

While reading this book, I often reflected on leaders I have worked with or my leadership style and noticed patterns I had not seen before. I intend to reread it and, with the help of the author's prompts and tools, dig deeper into my past to continue my healing journey and show up as a more conscious leader in my life.

[Donna McDine]

Transformative Journey Leading to Healing

From the onset I was immersed into the author’s writing style and openness to her own healing journey. As I dived deep into the question prompts a realization like none other flowed forth of what has occurred in my life and how I need and now are moving forward to my own healing. And coupled with the approach of the realization that all who we encounter are on their own personal journey of healing, business and personal conversations have taken a much deeper level. Heal to Lead: Revolutionizing Leadership through Trauma Healing is a must read for not only leaders, but for all humans.

[Kevin Perlmutter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so wonderfully written in a way that is vulnerable and inspirational. I was captivated by the author's very personal stories – seamlessly weaving together her healing journey, with professional evolution, and references to the state of the world today. Her distinction between low-conscious leadership and high-conscious leadership – and the impact that each type of leader has on individuals, organizations, and society – is incredibly insightful. So many leaders can and will benefit from this book.

[Seizethedave · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is heavy on prose and light on actionable information. Its content is mostly “leaders should heal their trauma” and then anecdotes and retelling of kinda random stories from the author’s life. One chapter after another with empty calls to action. I’m surprised it is rated so highly both here and on Amazon. I did get some good pointers to other books and ideas while reading, though.

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book would have been a lot better without random digressions into the author's personal politics. That was not what I picked it up for.