Success can look convincing from the outside.
Titles. Promotions. Achievement. Responsibility.
Yet behind many working lives sits another story. One of pressure, anxiety, sacrifice and the need to keep proving ourselves useful.
In Leadership Without Armour, Kevin Eastwood reflects on a career spanning apprenticeship, entrepreneurship, consultancy, leadership, coaching and voluntary service.
It is a story shaped by opportunity and achievement, but also by difficult workplaces, mental ill health, burnout and the gradual recognition that work had become inseparable from identity.
This is not a memoir of effortless success or perfect recovery.
It is an honest account of what happens when the life that appears sustainable from the outside begins to feel very different from within.
“The deepest forms of success may be found not in status or achievement, but in truth, presence and coming home.”
Warm, humane and quietly searching, the book explores:
- Work and personal identity
- Ambition and the need to prove ourselves
- Anxiety, exhaustion and burnout
- Leadership and responsibility
- Family, home and belonging
- Recovery and reinvention
- Service, mentoring and later-life purpose
- The courage to live and lead without pretence
Who this book is for:
- Leaders and professionals carrying significant responsibility
- People questioning the personal cost of career success
- Anyone experiencing burnout, uncertainty or loss of direction
- People approaching a career or life transition
- Coaches, mentors and leadership practitioners
- Readers interested in mental health, resilience and reinvention
- Anyone wondering whether it is still possible to begin again
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Author: Kevin Eastwood
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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