Future-Proof Your Leadership

Learn Lead Lift® is the future-focused guide to leadership you’ll pick up and return to time and time again. In this easy-to-read and actionable how-to guide, you’ll access relatable, practical and immediately useful tools for leading business transformation.

About The Book

Successful organizations today are increasingly aware they must continuously change and evolve to remain relevant, and a key part of every leader’s role is to build their individual and organizational capacity for ongoing transformation. Learn Lead Lift® offers a nod to some of the greatest thought leaders of our time while illuminating author Ryan’s unique insights and frameworks for success that all leaders can grow from. It provides a clear-eyed view into what it means to be a leader today – the must-have mindsets, skill sets and behaviors you need to lead business transformations, no matter whether you are just starting out or have been in a leadership role for years. Ryan illustrates her ideas through fascinating true stories from her work and interviews with artists and entrepreneurs, athletes and investors, educators and executives, and more.

“Brave, compelling and thoroughly original! Author Wendy Ryan challenges our traditional notions of leadership like no one else. Read Learn Lead Lift and take your own leadership skills to the next level! ”

Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach and only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the world.

About the book

Imagine a world where people love going to work thanks to leaders who are inspiring and supportive, and who create a culture that lifts each team member up. If this has not been your experience, you are not alone. There are, however, companies and leaders that lead and lift their team and their organizations. Learn Lead Lift was written to inspire leaders and give them a framework for being / becoming great leaders who create teams where every person is valued and encouraged to fulfill their potential. The kind of workplace you are excited to enter each day.

“Brave, compelling and thoroughly original! Author Wendy Ryan challenges our traditional notions of leadership like no one else. Read Learn Lead Lift and take your own leadership skills to the next level! ”

Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach and only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the world.

What Readers Will Learn

Leadership examples experienced via the author’s work, and interviews with artists and entrepreneurs, athletes and investors, educators and executives, and more.
The 3T Model™ – author Ryan developed this empowering mindset for leaders, which supports decision making and resource allocation by Tolerating, Transforming or Transcending.
A nod to some of the greatest thought leaders of our time while illuminating author Ryan’s unique insights and frameworks for success that all leaders can grow from.
A clear-eyed view into what it means to be a leader today – the must-have mindsets, skill sets and behaviors you need to make a positive impact through leadership, whether you are just starting out or have been in a leadership role for years.

Praise

Learn Lead Lift is a must-read for everyone—even people who don’t consider themselves traditional leaders. In this hands-on guide, author Wendy Ryan captures the mindsets, skill sets and behaviors that anyone can adopt to become a better leader.

– Beverly Kaye, Co-Author of Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go and Up is Not the Only Way

In Learn Lead Lift, Wendy Ryan offers an unflinching look at what’s required to be an effective leader today. Filled with stories, examples, actionable strategies and challenges, this book is essential reading for anyone aspiring to (or already in) leadership.

– Julie Winkle Giulioni, Co-Author, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want

Learn Lead Lift is truly a one-stop shop for leveling up all your leadership competencies—regardless of your job title or specific industry. Leveraging her time-tested expertise, Wendy Ryan has created a unique how-to guide for leaders that is simultaneously engaging, innovative, and accessible. Anyone wise enough to pick up this book will undoubtedly benefit from the transformative journey through which Wendy guides us.

– Jennifer Brown, Author of How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive and Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change

Wendy created The Learn Lead Lift Framework®, introduced in her award-winning and bestselling book, Learn Lead Lift:  How to Think, Act, and Inspire Your Way to Greatness.  As CEO of Kadabra, Wendy leads an interdisciplinary team of experts who are revolutionizing how leaders think, what they do and how they show up to others through The Learn Lead Lift Framework® and Kadabra’s unique learning solutions

In addition to her work with Kadabra, Wendy advises and invests in early-stage companies.   Her impact facilitating access to capital for historically excluded entrepreneurs is featured in the documentary film, Show Her The Money.   Wendy was an executive producer for the film along with Emmy award-winning actor, Sharon Gless.

Throughout her 25+ year career in human resources, organizational development and executive development Wendy has partnered with hundreds of individuals, teams and organizations globally, propelling front-line through C-suite leaders and board members to new levels of success.

Meet the Author

Wendy Ryan

Wendy Ryan (she/her/hers) MHROD is a Best Selling, 3x Award Winning Author, CEO of Kadabra, Mentor and Strategic Advisor.

Wendy believes that all of our actions are consequential, especially in leadership. This is why it has been her life’s work to help leaders expand what’s possible through the Learn Lead Lift Framework.™

In addition to being an active mentor and strategic advisor, Wendy is also an angel investor in early stage, BIPOC, LGBTQ++ and womxn-led companies. She is a fearless advocate for expanding diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in the investor and business ecosystem.

Wendy engages awareness and connection to inspire leaders to take their next step towards greatness and has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo News!, Business Digest, Authority Magazine, CEO Magazine and Thrive Global.

Discovery Cards

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  • Pre-printed Element cards with definitions
  • Blank Element cards to customize your stack
  • Model cards with application tips
  • Wild cards to extend your experience digitally
  • Access to the Learn Lead Lift Discovery Portal

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ISBN-13: 9781735258560 (Paperback); 9781735258553 (eBook)

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