New Book “Steady by Design” Offers Nurses, Healthcare Professionals, and Leaders a Framework for Success Without Burnout

August 11 10:18 2026
Author and registered nurse Anitra Green draws on her healthcare and business background to challenge the belief that leadership requires self-sacrifice

Anitra Green, RN, MSN, MBA, CMSRN, LNC, has released her new book, Steady by Design: A Coaching-Centered Framework for Sustainable Leadership, now available on Amazon.

The book addresses a challenge familiar to nurses, healthcare professionals, managers, entrepreneurs, and caregivers alike: the pressure to remain dependable for others while quietly running on empty. Rather than framing burnout as a personal failing to be solved with more self-care, Steady by Design offers a coaching-centered framework built around intentional leadership, healthier boundaries, stronger communication, self-awareness, and sustainable growth.

Across 30 chapters, the book combines reflection exercises, practical strategies, and real-world guidance aimed at helping readers recognize the signs of burnout, protect their well-being, and lead in a way that can be sustained over the long term — not just survived.

“I did not create Steady by Design simply to tell people to practice more self-care,” said Green. “I created it to address a deeper question: How do you continue to lead, serve, achieve, and care for others without disappearing in the process? That question became the foundation for a practical framework centered on intentional leadership, boundaries, communication, self-awareness, resilience, and sustainable growth.”

Green brings a distinctive perspective to the subject, combining frontline nursing

experience with advanced education in nursing and business, and leadership experience in environments where people are expected to remain dependable under sustained pressure.

Steady by Design is written for the person everyone depends on — the nurse, healthcare professional, manager, supervisor, entrepreneur, caregiver, or emerging leader who is constantly showing up for others while quietly becoming exhausted themselves. It is especially relevant for readers who feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or caught

between wanting to lead well and needing to protect their own peace.

The book is also the foundation of the larger Steady by Design platform, which extends its principles through leadership education, courses, reflection exercises, and practical tools.

Steady by Design: A Coaching-Centered Framework for Sustainable Leadership is available now on Amazon.

About the Author

Anitra Green, RN, MSN, MBA, CMSRN, LNC, is a registered nurse, author, healthcare professional, and founder of Steady by Design. Drawing from her background in nursing, business, leadership, and frontline healthcare, she writes about the human side of leadership — the pressure to perform, the weight of responsibility, burnout, boundaries, resilience, and the importance of remaining grounded while caring for and leading others.

Through Steady by Design, she encourages readers to redefine strength, challenging people to build careers and lives they can actually sustain.

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