Geri scazzero biography

Have you ever felt stuck, powerless to change your environment? Do you feel too overwhelmed to enjoy life, unable to sort out the demands on your time? Are you doing your best work as a leader, yet you think you’re not making an impact?

Perhaps you need to integrate who you are with what you do by developing a deep, inner life with Christ.

Bible Gateway interviewed Peter Scazzero (@petescazzero) about his book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World (Zondervan, 2015).

Explain why any leader of people needs to be emotionally healthy to be effective.

Peter Scazzero: Emotionally healthy leaders possess a significant level of self-awareness and, as a result, love well.

Unhealthy leaders lack, for example, awareness of their feelings, their weaknesses and limits, how their past impacts their present, and how others experience them.

They also lack the capacity and skill to enter deeply into