The Essence of Leadership

Derek W. Anderson is VP Business Improvement at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Heriot Watt University (Scotland) and an MBA through the Nashville Healthcare Council Fellows program within Vanderbilt’s Owen Business School. Anderson brings almost 40 years of international business and operations experience in from the Healthcare Industry. He was an adjunct professor at the Owen Business School teaching Healthcare Strategy. Jaco J. Hamman is Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School (Nashville, TN). He received his PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and is clinically trained as a psychotherapist and marriage and family therapist. He brings 25 years of experience working with religious professionals and non-profit leaders. He co-founded Our Place Nashville, a nonprofit providing housing and employment for persons with a developmental disability. “Friends” live alongside graduate students and persons who were housing insecure. The intentional community is 70 persons strong.

Part 1: Leaders and systems Chapter 1 Being a self: Owning one’s emotions, actions, and potential Chapter 2 Engaging emotional systems: Understanding the anxiety within change Part II: Leading in systems Chapter 3 Becoming self-differentiated: Leading with less anxiety Chapter 4 Embracing response-ability: Resisting emotional manipulation Part III: Transforming systems Chapter 5 Driving change: Putting theory into practice Chapter 6 Reckoning the cost of decisions taken: Mitigating the risks in change Chapter 7 Navigating “Bermuda Triangles”: Forming relationships for success Conclusion Showing up as a whole person