Lead Without Depletion

Almost every leader knows what depletion feels like.

Leaders in medicine are expected to be there for everyone else while running on very little themselves.

They lie awake at night thinking about the conversation they didn’t have time to finish.

They overanalyze decisions—replaying what they said (or didn’t say) and wondering if it was enough, or if it will be misinterpreted.

The work doesn’t end at the end of the workday.

Leadership, for many physicians (including me), became yet another source of over-responsibility, over-functioning, and overwhelm.

A steadier way to lead is possible

It’s possible to lead in a way that steadies and sustains you.

It’s possible to lead with a lens to wellness—your own and that of those you lead.

When we lead from the heart, rather than the checklist or the calendar, we begin to reclaim the energy we’ve been losing to spinning, ruminating, and trying to control what can’t be controlled.

We begin to lead with presence instead of pressure.

And we start to live with integration—stopping the attempt to keep work and life in separate containers, while carrying the emotional weight of leadership everywhere we go.

If you’re a physician leader wanting to lead with less urgency and more clarity, this is the focus of my leadership coaching offering Leading from the Heart.