Cherishing Professional Success and Personal Fulfillment: Resilience as a Pivotal Leadership Competency for Clinical Pharmacologists and Beyond.

Abstract

Resilience is a critical leadership competency directly linked to engagement, sustainable innovation, and productivity. This Commentary presents resilience concepts using the Benatti Resiliency Model^®, which comprises five inter-related dimensions: Well-being, Self-awareness, Brand, Connection, and Innovation. Trust is discussed as a critical leadership competency, with three levels: self-trust, trust in relationships at the team level, and community trust. The concept of Ikigai, representing the intersection of what one loves, what one is good at, what the world needs, and what one can be paid for, is discussed as a framework for self-awareness, brand development, development planning, and mentoring. Time and energy management using the Eisenhower matrix is highlighted as a strategy to build resilience, manage stress, enhance productivity, and prevent burnout. Taken together, the strategies discussed in this commentary are intended to unlock the transformative potential of resilience for sustainable innovation and impact within and beyond the dynamic and interdisciplinary field of clinical pharmacology, ultimately enabling professional success and personal fulfillment.