Healing for Leadership: How Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Build Safe, Resilient Teams

"Healing for Leadership is a practical guide to the necessary personal inner work that every leader needs to complete to effectively lead people in today's world."
- Jack Canfield, coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul(R) series and The Success Principles(TM)In today's fast-paced world of constant change, pressure, and uncertainty, leadership demands more than technical skill or organizational vision-it requires heart. In Healing for Leadership, Dr. Antoinette Gutierrez redefines what it means to lead with empathy, courage, and authenticity. Drawing on years of experience as an educator and leadership consultant, Dr. Gutierrez guides readers through the inner work required to become a "healing leader"-one who inspires trust, fosters connection, and creates emotionally safe environments where people can thrive.

Blending real-world stories, research-based insights, and reflective exercises, this book helps leaders of all kinds-educators, executives, and community changemakers-recognize how emotional intelligence, trauma awareness, and self-healing intersect with effective leadership. Each chapter offers practical tools for self-awareness, self-regulation, and understanding others, along with strategies to transform workplace cultures from reactive and burned-out to resilient and human-centered.

Whether you lead a classroom, a company, or a community, Healing for Leadership will empower you to:

• Build deeper, more authentic relationships grounded in trust and compassion
• Recognize and manage stress and trauma-both your own and your team's
• Cultivate emotional intelligence to improve communication and decision-making
• Create safe, connected environments that bring out the best in people
• Lead with love, integrity, and joy

As Dr. Gutierrez reminds us, "You can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them."
Healing for Leadership is more than a leadership manual-it's a call to action for a new kind of leader: one who heals, uplifts, and transforms lives through the power of presence and compassion.

Perfect for readers of Bren?Brown, Simon Sinek, and Daniel Goleman, this is an inspiring roadmap for anyone ready to lead with both head and heart.