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.
