Self-Awareness and Trust: Leading Healthcare Teams from the Inside Out by Dr. Jess Bunin, MD
YOU TRAINED FOR YEARS to become a clinician. Nobody taught you how to lead.
In healthcare, leadership responsibilities arrive before leadership training does. And yet every day, clinicians are asked to navigate conflict, rebuild trust, deliver difficult feedback, and hold teams together under pressure — without training, mentorship, or a roadmap.
Self-Awareness and Trust: Leading Healthcare Teams from the Inside Out offers a different starting point. Jess Bunin, MD, builds the case that effective leadership begins with self-awareness and is sustained through the relational disciplines of trust, repair, and civil discourse.
Organized around three phases that are built on one another, the book equips readers to:
- Examine the values, biases, and blind spots that shape their leadership under pressure.
- Understand how trust is built, how it fractures, and how it is repaired — before it is too late.
- Create environments of psychological safety and civil discourse that sustain teams through conflict and change.
- Lead with integrity when institutional pressures push against their values.
Becoming a better leader is not about becoming a different person. It is about becoming more fully yourself.