Leading Through Anxious Times: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower

If you're feeling anxious right now, you're not alone. How can you work with authority and strength when you feel anxious? How can you inspire and motivate others when your mind and heart are racing? Here's the good news: Understanding what makes you nervous is a leadership strength! If you know how to manage it, anxiety can motivate us to be more resourceful, productive, and creative. It can break down barriers and create new bonds. It can help us find solutions in the toughest times and work through challenges. 

In this webinar, Morra Aarons-Mele, one of ten thought leaders named LinkedIn's Top Voices in Mental Health for 2022, will discuss the following:

  • Understanding and managing how anxiety shows up for you at work
  • Leading and thriving through uncertainty 
  • How to use your leadership anxiety as an advantage
  • Creating guardrails that protect your boundaries, time, and energy

About the author: Morra Aarons-Mele, author of The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower, knows that taking your mental health seriously is a leadership strength. She launched and hosts The Anxious Achiever podcast for LinkedIn Presents, a 2020 Webby Awards Honoree, a top 10 management podcast, and a top 50 business podcast. She's passionate about helping people rethink the relationship between their mental health and their success. Morra is a 2022 LinkedIn "Top 10 Voice" in mental health.

 


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