PURCELLVILLE, VA / ACCESS Newswire / November 26, 2025 / Leadership strategist and emotional intelligence expert Jennifer Stanford announces the release of her groundbreaking new book, De-Stressed: Proven Strategies for Leaders to Lower Stress and Boost Performance. This timely guide helps high-performing professionals reclaim calm, clarity, and energy in a world where chronic stress has become the norm.
Turning Stress into Strength
For more than 30 years, Jennifer Stanford has guided leaders and teams across a wide range of industries - from corporate and federal sectors to mission-driven organizations - helping them unlock their potential by transforming stress from a hidden saboteur into a catalyst for lasting performance. Drawing from decades of hands-on experience in leadership development, she has refined her approach to show that success and well-being are not opposing forces, but complementary ones when managed with awareness and intention.
As the founder of Emergent Performance Solutions, Stanford has built a national reputation as a trusted advisor for organizations seeking to replace burnout with breakthrough results. Her work centers on the integration of energy management, emotional intelligence, and psychological safety, creating cultures where trust, communication, and innovation thrive. Through her workshops, consulting programs, and keynote talks, she helps leaders cultivate resilience, clarity, and purpose - enabling teams to perform at a high level without sacrificing their health or humanity.
Stanford says she wrote De-Stressed after observing a troubling and consistent pattern among high-achieving professionals - individuals who excel in their fields yet quietly struggle beneath the weight of constant pressure. "We celebrate hustle and normalize exhaustion as the price of success," she explains, describing how modern workplace culture often rewards overextension while overlooking the personal cost.
Over the years, Stanford noticed that even the most capable leaders were running on empty, convinced that fatigue and stress were proof of commitment. This realization sparked her mission to challenge that mindset. De-Stressed was born out of her belief that true success should not come at the expense of one's well-being, creativity, or clarity.
A Practical Framework for Modern Leadership
The book combines neuroscience, leadership strategy, and energy science through Stanford's Energy is Currency™ framework. Drawing from both research and real-life experience, she offers practical methods leaders can apply immediately - from understanding how stress impacts the brain to restoring energy through conscious habits.
Divided into three parts, De-Stressed provides:
Part One: Clear data on how chronic stress affects physical and emotional health.
Part Two: Insight into behavioral patterns that keep stress in control, paired with tools to reset them.
Part Three: Guidance for leading teams, families, and communities from energy rather than depletion.
Stanford's approach is warm yet actionable. Her blend of science, strategy, and storytelling helps readers not only understand stress but learn how to use it as fuel for growth and clarity.
A Message for Today's Leaders
De-Stressed speaks directly to executives, HR professionals, entrepreneurs, and mission-driven individuals who perform under constant pressure. Stanford aims to help them recognize that reclaiming energy isn't a luxury - it's a performance strategy.
Her message resonates with anyone who feels the cost of constant productivity: "This book is for the doers and caregivers - the people who hold it all together while quietly falling apart. You don't have to choose between excellence and wellbeing."
About Jennifer Stanford
Jennifer Stanford is a nationally recognized leadership strategist, emotional intelligence expert, and the founder of Emergent Performance Solutions. For over three decades, she has helped leaders and teams transform stress into sustainable success through trust-based leadership and psychological safety. She is also a keynote speaker and the author of De-Stressed: Proven Strategies for Leaders to Lower Stress and Boost Performance. Her signature Energy is Currency™ model blends neuroscience and practical leadership tools to help organizations perform at their best.
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