Polyvagal-Informed Leadership

Business

Self-help

Willem Manuputty

Quantum Way

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147 pages (provisional English e-book)

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From Survival to Connection: From Self-Awareness to Strategic Impact

Polyvagal-Informed Leadership offers a human-centered approach to leadership and team development by exploring a question that is often overlooked in traditional management literature: what happens in our nervous system when we lead, collaborate, experience pressure, or no longer feel safe?

Leadership is usually approached through strategy, competencies, communication skills, and behavior. Willem Manuputty adds another layer: the biology of safety and connection. Drawing on Polyvagal Theory, psychological safety, Transactional Analysis, trauma-informed perspectives, and established models of team development, he shows how our physiological state influences the way we communicate, make decisions, handle conflict, exercise authority, and connect with others.

At the heart of the book is a simple principle: before people can collaborate, learn, innovate, and perform sustainably, they need to experience sufficient safety.

Willem Manuputty

Willem Manuputty is a Dutch trainer, coach, therapist and specialist in leadership and organisational development, and the founder of Humanwise. Born in 1971 as the youngest of nine children in a Moluccan-Dutch family, he worked in retail and HR services, including leadership roles at Randstad and Adecco, before turning to the human dynamics behind performance, collaboration and change. He studied Business Administration, Human Resource Management and Social Psychology, and trained in Transactional Analysis, systemic work, trauma-informed approaches, Internal Family Systems and Polyvagal Theory. Since 2015, through Humanwise, he has worked with leaders, teams and organisations to help people move from survival and protection towards safety, connection and meaningful development. With Esther Bontekoe, he also leads a training programme in polyvagal-inspired leadership. Polyvagal-Informed Leadership is his first book. https://humanwise.nl

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