Description:
Lead from within. Build trust that lasts. A practical guide for physician leaders to strengthen self-awareness, navigate conflict, and create resilient healthcare teams.
Brief description: Jess Bunin, MD, MHPE, FACP, FCCM, is a retired Army colonel, critical care physician, psychiatrist, and certified executive coach with more than two decades of military service. She is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and Tulane University School of Medicine. She completed her medical training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Over the course of her career, she directed ICUs, residencies, and fellowships, and served as an assistant dean for faculty development and professor of medicine. She deployed to Iraq as a psychiatrist and to Afghanistan as an intensivist. She now brings her background in psychiatry, critical care, and coaching to the work of developing healthcare leaders.
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This is the book 21st-century leaders have been waiting for! Dr. Jess Bunin delivers a masterclass in leading with humility, authenticity, curiosity, and trust. Her own journey to self-awareness and human vulnerability was hard-earned as a critical-care physician on the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every chapter offers a beautiful fusion of Bunin's own experience and cutting-edge research evidence, making this the definitive manual for leading with courage and compassion in the tension between mission achievement and caring for your people. A must read! --Brad Johnson, PhD, U.S. Naval Academy, and David Smith, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Authors of Fair Share: How Men and Women Can Create a More Equitable Workplace Together
In almost a half century of working with leaders, I have found that the only way I've seen for great leadership to emerge is how Dr. Jess Bunin guides us ... From the Inside Out. By sharing her own story with grace and humility, she has created a narrative that is stunning in its depth and powerfully effective in the strategies she offers to transform the human experience of leadership. Every leader, especially healthcare leaders, should read this book. Every one!--Howard Ross, Author, Everyday Bias and Our Search for Belonging
A MUST read for every learning leader! Dr. Jess Bunin writes with clarity, transparency, and refreshing humility. She delivers a powerful, passionate, and deeply reflective leadership journey through complex, uncertain, and often hostile environments (in combat and more sterile corridors). While centered on her experiences in the healthcare profession, the impactful learning points and the opportunity for personal transformation are universally applicable for all current and future leaders. I experienced reflections of my own 50-year leadership journey page after page, and I know you will too.--Dan Allyn, General, U.S. Army, Retired, 35th Vice Chief of Staff, USA, BS, USMA '81, MA, NSS, Naval War College, 2001, President, Advisory Board, Healthcare Leadership Foundation, President, Advisory Board, Feagin Leadership Program
Having worked at every level from hospital orderly to health system CEO, I've observed the leadership styles and mistakes of countless healthcare professionals in a variety of social, cultural, and organizational contexts. Self-Awareness and Trust offers a roadmap that can help all of us, at every stage of our careers, lead healthcare teams with insight, nuance, empathy, integrity, and courage.--Art Kellermann, MD, MPH, former med school dean, health system CEO, and lifelong public health advocate
Self-Awareness and Trust is a deeply personal and practical guide to becoming a better healthcare leader. Wisdom-packed and unflinchingly authentic, Dr. Bunin shows what becomes possible when we lead with intention. This book belongs on every healthcare leader's bookshelf.--Rana Awdish, Author of In Shock and After Shock, Medical Director of Care Experience at Henry Ford Health, Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
Dr. Bunin threads the needle from self-awareness to trust and psychological safety to the kind of leadership that makes people feel safe enough to speak up. It's practical, it's personal, and it delivers lessons for anyone who leads teams in high-stakes environments.--Resa E. Lewiss MD, DipABLM, co-author of MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact and host of The Visible Voices Podcast