Resilience: Psychological Strength for Leaders & Teams
Author: Dr. Anna Neya Kazanskaia
Publisher: NEYA Global Publishing
Year: 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64357/resilience-2025
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About the Book
Resilience: Psychological Strength for Leaders & Teams explores resilience as both a psychological resource and an organisational capability, with particular emphasis on the unique challenges of the non-profit sector. At the individual level, resilience involves emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, and adaptive coping strategies that allow leaders and staff to sustain functioning under stress. At the organisational level, resilience refers to the ability of institutions to adapt to crises, navigate uncertainty, and remain mission-focused despite external shocks.
Drawing from psychology, organisational studies, systems theory, and development research, this book situates resilience within broader debates about adaptation, governance, and legitimacy. It highlights how resilience is not a static trait but an emergent property of systems that align people, processes, and culture. The book also underscores the acute relevance of resilience to non-profits, which face resource scarcity, donor dependency, political volatility, and the emotional demands of mission-driven work.
By combining theoretical frameworks with practical strategies and case studies, the book offers leaders and teams evidence-based approaches to cultivating resilience. It provides tools for measuring psychological and organisational resilience, examines its role in sustaining trust and legitimacy, and considers its future significance in an era of global crises, climate change, and shrinking civic space.
Key Topics
- Theoretical perspectives on resilience and legitimacy
- Individual psychological resilience: coping, adaptation, and recovery
- Organisational resilience: systems, governance, and culture
- Sources and threats to resilience in non-profits
- The relationship between resilience, trust, and legitimacy
- Strategies for building resilient leaders and teams
- Measurement tools for resilience at individual and organisational levels
- Future directions for resilience in global civil society
Academic Value
This book contributes to the growing body of scholarship on resilience by centring its analysis on the non-profit sector, a context often overlooked in mainstream organisational research. It bridges psychology, organisational studies, and development theory, offering a holistic view that integrates individual wellbeing with institutional continuity. For practitioners, it provides practical guidance for strengthening resilience as a strategic capability, while for scholars, it opens new avenues of inquiry into the interplay of psychological, cultural, and systemic dimensions of adaptation.
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Kazanskaia, A.N., 2025. Resilience: Psychological Strength for Leaders & Teams. NEYA Global Publishing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.64357/resilience-2025
IEEE
A. N. Kazanskaia, Resilience: Psychological Strength for Leaders & Teams. NEYA Global Publishing, 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.64357/resilience-2025
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About the Author
Dr. Anna Neya Kazanskaia is the founder and CEO of NEYA Global Education, Philanthropy & Consulting. She is the author of over 100 books on non-profit governance, resilience, leadership, and strategy. Holding a BA in philosophy and politics, an LLM in law, and a Ph.D. in technology, education, and management, she integrates interdisciplinary expertise with practical experience. Her research and consulting work equip leaders and organisations worldwide with frameworks for resilience, legitimacy, and sustainable impact.
