Step Up: How to Live with Courage and Become an Everyday Leader [Audiobook]

A New Vision of Inclusive Leadership

What makes someone a leader? Someone you vote for, work for, or listen to for their expertise? With Step Up, equality advocate Ash Beckham challenges us to embrace a different vision of leadership - to stop focusing on external authorities and start reclaiming our own ability to create change. "What we need most are everyday leaders," she writes. "We need people to step up and be the change they wish to see in the world. Anyone can do it. You can do it."

Whether your path involves activism, political engagement, or simply being a positive voice in your workplace, home, and community, Beckham's Step Up provides essential guidance on cultivating the eight pillars of everyday leadership:

Empathy - the art of relating to others with compassion for our shared humanity, regardless of whether we agree
Responsibility - how we can raise our awareness and consciously choose to behave in ways that heal instead of harm
Courage - understanding the nature of fear so we can move beyond our comfort zone one step at a time
Grace - how keeping our higher purpose always in sight helps us stop reacting with fear or anger
Individuality - learning to value and celebrate our uniqueness, including the parts of ourselves we often reject
Humility - ways to keep the ego in check and open the door to honest, collaborative relationships
Patience - guidance for disarming our tendency to rush ahead so we can act with greater deliberation and forethought
Authenticity - how we can embody our deepest truths and lead by example in any situation