Do Your Part: Sustainable Social Impact Leadership in a Time of Polycrisis with Tessa Bridge

Tessa Bridge joins Kim Allchurch Flick for a follow-up discussion about her book "Do Your Part: Bold, Sustainable Leadership for Social Impact Leaders in a Time of Polycrisis." Bridge describes writing the resource she needed when she felt overextended in vulnerable leadership roles and couldn’t find guidance at the intersection of values-based work and exhaustion. She frames today’s “polycrisis” as requiring a shift from individual heroics and constant sprinting to grounded, regulated, collective leadership, including tools like the “window of tolerance” to recognize hyper- and hypo-arousal and return to clear thinking. The book includes research, interviews, and case studies on issues like attachment to workplace community, internalized pressure, and unjust systems creating impossible expectations. Bridge shares optimism about human-centered, interdependent leadership and invites readers to clarify what’s theirs to do, seek generative communities, and connect via her website, LinkedIn, and newsletter; she names three influential authors she’d dine with.