This is not your usual leadership book.
There are no quick fixes, productivity hacks, or neatly packaged answers. Instead, this book holds up a mirror to modern leadership and invites you to look properly.
Through unsettlingly familiar characters, real-world stories, data, and lived experience, Emily Pearson paints a picture many CEOs instinctively recognise but rarely name: organisations that appear successful on the surface, yet are quietly straining under the weight of unsustainable performance.
Leaders are exhausted, managers are stretched thin, and high performers are slipping away.
This isn’t a people problem. And it isn’t a lack of ambition.
It’s a blind spot.
Drawing on more than 25 years’ experience across organisational culture, mental health, and leadership advisory work – alongside her own journey through burnout and recovery – Emily reframes performance through the lens of human sustainability: the conditions required for people, and businesses, to last for generations to come.
For CEOs, founders, and senior leaders, this book doesn’t tell you what to think. It helps you see what’s been hiding in plain sight.
Get a copy on Amazon: https://geni.us/Human-Sustainability
Website: https://www.emilypearson.co.uk/