The Trauma-Informed Leadership Blog

Last week, I introduced the third pillar of trauma-informed leadership – relationships and connection. This week, we’re going to dive a little bit deeper and talk about YOU. What type of leader are yo...

As we start off the new year, it seemed like the right time to talk about the third pillar of trauma-informed leadership: Relationships and connection. As we talk about relationships and connection in...

Happy end of the year trauma-informed innovators! As we approach the end of the year, we’re going to take a break from our usual blogs to honor the time we are in right now. This will be the last blog...

Over the past couple of weeks, we have done a deep dive in to the second of the “Four Pillars of Trauma-Informed Leadership™”, Trust. This week, we’re focusing on sharing specific strategies that you ...

Last week, I introduced the second pillar in the “Four Pillars of Trauma-Informed Leadership™”, Trust. Trust can be defined as, “Choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another perso...

Over the past couple of weeks, we did a deep dive into the first pillar of trauma-informed leadership, safety. Over the next three weeks, we’re going to dive into the second pillar in the “Four Pillar...

Over the last couple of weeks, we have talked more in depth about psychological safety and why it’s important for our teams.  I’m guessing it sounds amazing – I can have my team be more engaged, more ...

Last week, I did a deep dive into the first pillar of Trauma-Informed Leadership, Safety.  As leaders, before we can truly create safety on our teams, we need to integrate this knowledge personally by...

This week, we are going to take a break from our series on psychological safety to talk about how to be a trauma-informed leader during tumultuous times. For many of us, the results of the presidentia...

A couple of weeks ago, I introduced the Four Pillars of Trauma-Informed Leadership™: Safety, Trust, Autonomy, and Connections and Relationships. Now we are going to do a deep dive into each of these p...

Last week, we talked about some immediate steps that you can take when you are feeling stressed or personally triggered during a specific situation at work. While these immediate steps are helpful,...

One of the things that I have noticed throughout the literature on leadership is that it is focused on things like being an effective leader or stepping up to the plate to support your staff members. ...