Overview
A lived-insight leadership framework for building trust, influence, and lasting impact
In Built for More: Turning Lived Experience into Leadership Power, KR Liu, Global Head of Product Innovation and Marketing Partnerships at Google, presents a leadership framework forged through two decades of navigating complexity at the highest levels of tech. Liu offers a progression model rooted in empathy, strategy, and systems thinking for leaders seeking influence beyond title.
Built for More introduces Liu's core leadership progression: Lived Insight, Product Innovation, Storytelling, and Long-Term Impact. Drawing on her experience shaping inclusive strategy at the intersection of technology and culture, Liu provides practical tools for earning trust across silos, leveraging community as a driver of innovation, and leading with both conviction and adaptability.
Readers will also discover:
- A structured framework that connects empathy and systems thinking to measurable, long-term organizational impact and cultural change
- Strategies for building credible influence across silos without relying on positional authority or inherited organizational power
- Insights from an executive who helped pass the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act and shaped national accessibility policy
- Practical approaches to using creative storytelling as a leadership tool for shaping culture and driving innovation
- Methods for treating community not as an initiative but as a strategic lever for building what comes next
Written for CEOs, organizational leaders, and entrepreneurs navigating high-stakes environments, Built for More delivers a framework for those ready to build influence through empathy, earn trust through lived insight, and create lasting change without a conventional leadership blueprint.
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