1st Edition
Building Sustainable Leadership from the Inside How To Grow The Inner Capabilities We Need To Lead
Introduction 1. Sustainable High Performance 2. Staying Smart Under Pressure 3. Navigating Skilfully in Change, Uncertainty and Complexity 4. Collaborating Across Divides 5. Resilience and Purpose
Biography
Joakim Eriksson is an experienced leader, facilitator and executive coach with over 30 years of experience with leadership and organisational development. He works with multinational organisation and draws on research and practices from a wide variety of fields such as neuroscience, systems thinking, contemplative traditions as well as his own leadership experience. Joakim lives with his family in the south of Sweden.
Joakim offers a necessary toolbox and important perspectives for everyone who want to have a positive impact on the world
Jan Artem Henriksson - executive director Inner Development Goals, Senior Fellow at Human Flourishing Network at Harvard
Joakim Eriksson has created a strong framework for understanding the intrinsic connections between body, mind, and leadership. Packed with insights for how to strengthen leaders’ inner capabilities, the framework provides actionable advice for building a more effective and sustainable leadership practice.
Anders Møller Jakobsen, Deputy Director General, Department of Social Services, City of Copenhagen
This book resonates deeply with my own leadership journey. With a background in both the military and logistics, I appreciate Eriksson’s practical approach, seamlessly blending real-world wisdom with neuroscience and psychology. A must-read for leaders like me who thrive on challenges in life.
Patrik Strid, Vice President Operations DFDS
This is foundational for great leaders. The understanding of looking inside yourself and exercising the brain has changed the way we look at training and is now foundational for our leadership programs. Thank you, Joakim, for bringing this to our organization!
Monica Bolander, Learning & Development Director, EQT Group
