Vol 01 · The Resilient Leader

The Resilient Leader – Fillable Workbook (Vol 01, A Culture of Kindness Leadership Library)

A practical, fillable workbook for managers who want to stay steady under pressure, protect their wellbeing and build genuinely resilient teams.

Real resilience isn't about being tough. It's about staying human under pressure.

Finding strength, balance and clarity under pressure

Most leaders are told to toughen up and push through. This workbook offers a better way: resilience built on self-awareness, honest relationships, healthy boundaries and a deep connection to purpose.

Drawing on Nahla Summers' research into workplace culture and her Tough Kindness principles, it gives you practical tools to protect your own wellbeing and to build a team where wellbeing is real rather than performed.

Inside you'll find

35+ practical tools across 7 sections, including:

•     A leadership resilience self-assessment and wellbeing wheel

•     Guided journal prompts and the GROUND regulation technique

•     One-to-one guides for wellbeing and sustainable performance

•     Team activities, a wellbeing agreement and meeting tools

•     A 30 / 60 / 90-day resilience plan

The 7 sections

1.     Understanding Your Own Resilience

2.     Building Your Resilience Architecture

3.     The Meaning Foundation

4.     Emotional Resilience and Regulation

5.     Sustainable High Performance

6.     Resilient Teams: Protecting Your People

7.     Your 90-Day Resilience Plan

Who it's for

•     Managers and team leaders carrying a heavy load

•     New leaders who want healthy habits from the start

•     Anyone responsible for the wellbeing of a team

•     Coaches, HR and L&D professionals looking for ready-to-use tools

What you get

•     A 72-page A4 PDF workbook by Nahla Summers, creator of KQ² – The Human Equation

•     Fully fillable: type your answers straight into the page, click to score the self-assessments and save as you go

•     Print-friendly too, if you prefer to write by hand

•     Works best in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader on computer, tablet or phone

Using it with your team

This licence is for one person. You may copy the fill-in templates for use with your own team. For use across a department or organisation, multi-user and facilitator licences are available: get in touch via acultureofkindness.co.uk.

Part of the A Culture of Kindness Leadership Library, an eight-volume series of practical workbooks for leading and living with kindness, courage and honesty. This is Vol 01.