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 changeStrategies for building credible influence across silos without relying on positional authority or inherited organizational powerInsights from an executive who helped pass the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act and shaped national accessibility policyPractical approaches to using creative storytelling as a leadership tool for shaping culture and driving innovationMethods 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.
