Hachette India

Human Leadership: How to Succeed (and How to Fail) in the Helping Professions

Claudia Megele

Tanya Moore

Various Authors

How can you lead with compassion, authenticity and success - whether you're leading a team or a complex organization?

This wide-ranging collection pulls together leading innovation experts to share their failures, successes and their secrets to being a successful leader. It highlights dilemmas which common to leaders in any organizations, but which are critical to anyone working in human services. These include the power of diversity for improving practice, being an emotionally literate leader, how to handle risk and the blame game and the central role of trauma-informed practice.

Human Leadership is required reading for any leader looking to make a positive impact in the fields of health, social care, mental health, education and other helping professions.

Claudia Megele

Claudia Megele is Assistant Director of Cafcass. She was previously Chair of the Child and Family Principal Social Worker Network, Head of Quality Assurance at two local authorities, and prior to that was Senior Lecturer and PQ/CPD Programme Leader at Middlesex University. Claudia has also served in a number of public and third sector posts and organisations including: member of the advisory board of the National Children's Bureau (NCB), Trustee at Mind, and the Chair and Vice-Chair of Tower Hamlets Police and Community Safety Board.