Built for More: How Leaders Use Lived Insight and Community to Foster Innovation, Strengthen Culture, Create Lasting Change

PRAISE FOR BUILT FOR MORE "Built for More is rare: a leadership book that earns every lesson it teaches. Through deeply personal stories and hard-won experience, KR shows what is possible when courage, conviction, and empathy are put into action. She has spent her life refusing to accept that the world must remain as she found it, challenging assumptions, opening doors, and changing systems for the better. For anyone who has ever felt overlooked, underestimated, or unseen, this book offers something more valuable than inspiration: proof. Proof that your perspective matters. Proof that courage compounds. Proof that one person can create opportunities where none seemed to exist. For everyone else, it is a reminder of how much possibility we miss when we fail to see the strengths, experiences, and potential in those around us. We are fortunate that KR chose to share her story and wisdom with the rest of us."—JOY ZABEN, Executive Advisor and Chief of Staff, Visa 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.