Trauma to Triumph: A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption (and Thriving on the Other Side)

How to successfully navigate through crisis or trauma—and come out stronger on the other side. This leadership roadmap shows you the way.

Organizational trauma takes many forms. It could be a pandemic that disrupts everything about the way people work. An economic meltdown. An act of violence. A failed merger. A layoff—or continual threats of one. Whatever the scenario, events like these can traumatize leaders and employees, sending everyone into survival mode. If the crisis is not “named and claimed” as trauma and managed effectively, it’s sure to linger on in the form of chronic stress and anxiety. And left unspoken and unaddressed, blame, shame, and guilt often permeate the culture of the organization and erode its ability to thrive in the future.

Here’s the good news: when leaders navigate a traumatic event effectively, the organization doesn’t just survive. It can be transformed and flourish in ways previously unimagined.

In Trauma to Triumph: A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption and Thriving on the Other Side, Mark Goulston, MD, and Diana Hendel present a visionary and tactical roadmap to help leaders create stability in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, move productively through a traumatic event, and come out even stronger and better on the other side.