New book ‘Anchored’ offers a practical path for leaders helping them stay grounded when everything speeds up

In an unsettled and relentless world, it’s clear that leaders and their teams are struggling. Gallup’s 2025 State of the Global Workplace report shows that just 33% of workers globally are classified as “thriving” in their overall life evaluation. At work, only 21% of employees feel engaged, while 40% report experiencing daily stress. One in two employees is watching for or actively seeking a new job. This fractured workplace reality has tangible consequences – not only for individual wellbeing, but for productivity, trust, and long-term organisational health.

For Rochelle Trow, successful individuals who want to shift their leadership from surviving to thriving are not looking to do more or move faster; they are pausing, protecting their balance, and shifting the rhythm of the system from within. This is the galvanising call-to-action of her new book, Anchored. With over twenty-five years of international experience, Trow has shaped people strategy and led transformation in globally recognised organisations, including Unilever, GSK, and Astellas, earning a reputation for bringing clarity to complexity and keeping humanity at the centre of change.

Trow’s personal journey walking the workplace tightrope fuels Anchored. Drawing on firsthand experience of sleepless nights, fatigue, burnout, and the subtle pressure to keep performing against the inner need to pause, she provides readers with usable and honest guidance to lead without losing themselves, rooted in the reality of the corporate system.

Trow invites readers to reflect on a central question: How do I stay grounded when the pace keeps rising? The answer to this isn’t about coping or control. Anchored offers a practical path back to inner strength for leaders who project success yet carry an invisible burden. Structured into five accessible parts, it explores how family and organisational systems shape behaviours, how to recognise hidden patterns and outdated beliefs, why fear is essential for growth, and how to protect personal boundaries. Far from being a one-time fix, Trow presents the book as an ongoing conversation – reflecting the necessity of continuous self-realignment in leadership – encouraging readers to use it as a mirror without judgement or denial.

Anchored is grounded in The Wholeness Journey Map – a simple representation of the inner movement readers are guided through. Each part unfolds in four stages: Insight, Pull, Practice, Shift, alongside three threads: Fear speaks through the body, Doubt speaks through the mind, and Wholeness begins when the two learn to listen to each other. The book invites readers to listen to a different voice of doubt and to practice responding from a place of steadiness, rather than defence, through Trow’s nine Anchors of Wholeness and the ongoing rhythm of Notice > Anchor > Choose > Return. Importantly, Anchored isn’t a manual to master, or a framework to memorise, it’s a process to return to oneself whenever footing is lost.

Strengthening these approaches, Trow weaves in short Research Spotlights – concise insights distilling the latest neuroscience, psychology, and organisational studies – guiding readers to connect lived experiences with wider evidence and context.

In a world where the pace and complexity keep rising, our advantage isn’t speed – it’s steadiness. The most sustainable form of leadership begins not with acceleration, but with presence, wholeness, and compassion. Anchored is for those who want their leadership to be as human as the values that guide it, for employees who care deeply about others, and organisations that want to sustain productivity while learning to breathe again. Whether engaging in a conversation, a book, or a shared experience, Trow encourages readers to begin wherever they are. Each intentional choice made in alignment with their values – whether a pause, or a boundary – is how personal transformation begins from the inside out and ripples beyond the individual into the wider world.

Anchored is available on Amazon and in all good bookshops from 26th February 2026