Each chapter becomes a real time tool chest of relevant and tested approaches to effective leadership, interaction, and communion in a format that is timeless in its approach." - From the foreword by Tim Porter-O'Grady, Senior Partner, TPOG Associates, LLC Clinical Professor, Emory University, School of NursingLeadership Laboratory for Nurse Leaders is an innovative and interactive workbook that challenges readers to reflect upon their personal experiences in learning how to lead through the lens of new and established ideas in the literature of nursing, psychology, education, sociology, and anthropology. Readers are guided through a series of laboratories, encouraged to consider real-world examples of leadership successes and challenges from peers, and prompted to experiment with new leadership strategies drawn from research. The workbook features seven chapter laboratories that explore crucial elements of emotional mastery for nurse leaders, including wisdom of experience, motivation, boundary clarity, self-regulation, generativity, change agility, and finding strength in adversity. Each chapter features critical research, invitations and prompts for reflection, experiments, and suggestions of new behaviors sourced from expert counsel. Each chapter provides readers with personal insights and hands-on tools. Leadership Laboratory for Nurse Leaders is designed to be used as both an individualized course in leadership as well as an ideal supplementary workbook for any course or program in nursing, especially those with an emphasis on developing professional leadership skills.