Build it Boldly
By Dr. Kimberly McGlonn
How Daring Business Leaders Can Gain Influence and Create Impact
Leadership isn’t something you perform. It’s something you practice.
Build It Boldly challenges the version of leadership built on speed, optics, and profit at any cost, and offers a more responsible way forward.
This book is an invitation to lead with intention, design decisions on purpose, and take responsibility for the impact of what you build.
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What this Book Offers:
Build It Boldly is not a checklist or a playbook.
It’s a reframing of leadership, grounded in lived experience, ethical tension, and the belief that how we lead shapes people, systems, and futures.
Inside, you’ll explore:
- Why leadership is never neutral
- How business design quietly reinforces values, or harm
- What it means to build influence without sacrificing integrity
- How imagination plays a critical role in creating better futures
This is a book you return to, not rush through.
This book is for leaders who:
- Are navigating growth, change, or responsibility
- Build organizations, teams, or systems that affect others
- Want clarity, not charisma
- Care about impact as much as outcomes
If you’ve felt the tension between success and integrity, this book gives language to what you already sense.
The Practices inside
Rise With Intention
Leadership begins with reflection, not reaction.
You’ll learn how to slow down long enough to understand who you’re becoming before rushing ahead.
Leadership by Design
Leadership doesn’t happen by default.
You’ll explore how structures, systems, and decisions quietly reveal what leaders truly value.
Justice Is the Standard
There is no neutral leadership.
This book challenges you to examine who benefits from your decisions, and who pays the cost.
Imagination Builds the Future
The futures worth inheriting don’t emerge from conformity.
They begin with leaders willing to imagine beyond what currently exists.
These are not ideas to admire. They are practices to return to - again and again.