Book Launch - Human Leadership: How to Succeed (and How to Fail)

Join us for the official launch of Human Leadership: How to Succeed (and How to Fail) in the Helping Professions – a groundbreaking new book that brings together leaders from across health, social care, safeguarding, education, public service, and voluntary sectors to explore a more honest, relational, and emotionally intelligent model of leadership.

This event brings authors, practitioners, policymakers, and leaders together for an evening of reflection, insight, and meaningful conversation about what leadership really demands of us – not only in our successes, but in our uncertainty, our failures, and our humanity.

About the Book:

Edited by Claudia Megele and Tanya Moore, Human Leadership challenges the conventional narrative that leadership is defined solely by confidence, clarity, and upward success. Instead, it offers a deeply human and realistic account of leadership as an emotional, relational, and often vulnerable journey. Drawing on real-life experience from leaders across the helping professions, the book explores:

• How emotions shape leadership decisions
• The hidden labour of carrying risk, fear, hope, and responsibility
• The role of vulnerability, authenticity, and reflection in effective leadership
• What we learn from failure, and why it matters
• How we build cultures of compassion, trust, and accountability

This book is both a guide and an invitation: to lead with humanity, to think with emotional depth, and to build systems where people – not processes – come first.

What to Expect at the Launch:

✔ A welcome reception and networking
✔ A talk by the editors and contributing authors
✔ Reflections on leadership in today’s helping professions
✔ Open discussion and Q&A with the audience
✔ Book signing and opportunities for informal conversation

Whether you are a practitioner, manager, senior leader, student, academic, policymaker, or someone passionate about relational and emotionally intelligent leadership – this event is for you.

Who Should Attend:

• Professionals across social care, health, education, criminal justice, youth work, and safeguarding
• Leaders, managers and practitioners at all levels
• Anyone committed to improving the culture, climate, and humanity of public service
• Readers interested in leadership, psychology, organisational culture, and reflective practice

Why Attend:

Because leadership in the helping professions is evolving – and this book marks an important moment in that evolution.

It celebrates what we have achieved, illuminates what we struggle with, and offers a pathway toward leadership that is emotionally grounded, relationally hopeful, and deeply human.Come celebrate the launch of this important work, meet the authors, and be part of the conversation shaping the future of leadership in the helping professions.