Lifting Up
The Transformative Power of Supportive Leadership
Releasing Spring 2025.
Why Lifting Up?
The need for supportive leaders could not be more great. Hear directly from the author about why this book—and skill—is so critical in a volatile, disruptive, and uncertain world.
Pre-Order Lifting Up
Imagine this book as a giant red “Start Here” button.
Face it: we need a bit of a reset these days. Leading is hard right now, with challenges and disruptions we haven’t had to face before.
How do we lead others through difficult times when it’s hard to even manage ourselves? Therein lies the opportunity.
The skills required to lead in this new era require deeper human connection, relationships, and the ability to build resilient, adaptable teams.
Supportive leaders are the force that activate the potential in people, lifting organizations and people up and out of chaos. By guiding, encouraging, and empowering those in the thick of it, they bring out the best in others.
Lifting Up: The Transformative Power of Supportive Leadership is a new playbook for a new era. This book is a guide for everyone—from executives to professors, from lawyers to parents—to unlock the potential in others and ourselves.
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Lifting Up is written in 12 chapters and 3 parts, using a straightforward mix of stories, stats, science, studies, artwork, and hundreds of practical tips and tools:
Part 1 explores the landscape of our current disruptive working reality, and how we got here. Chapters 1-6 will cover the discontent and disconnect, what’s missing in our approach to supporting those we lead and bridging the generational and digital divide.
Part 2 answers the question “What Now?”, outlining the solutions, skills, and frameworks critical to create a measurable, scalable, and sustainable supportive culture.
Part 3, The Playbook, is a section of trackers, tips, tools, and conversation frameworks, that have been road tested and give leaders a quick reference.
Special Packages & Trainings
The perfect gift for a circle of friends, mentors, or the future leaders you want to inspire. Preorder 3 copies – one for you, two for the people you want to lift up – and receive special perks and a beautifully designed notecard pack for gifting.
Includes:
(3) Printed, Signed Copies of Lifting Up
Beautiful Custom Prints from the Book (3)
Join My VIP Author Community & Quarterly Author Chats
Tickets to Virtual Book Launch Party (3)
VIP Access to All In-Person Book Tour Events (3)
Experience The Supportive Leader Workshop Training (3 hours) based on the book, facilitated virtually by author Jen Marr. Receive an unabridged version of The Supportive Leader Playbook, a printed, signed copy of Lifting Up, and immediately get skilled up in the new framework for leadership. Training takes place Monday, May 12th from 2-5 pm ET.
4 Tickets to Supportive Leader Workshop Training with Author Jen Marr (invite 3 friends!)
Copy of the Unabridged Supportive Leader Playbook & Workbook (1)
Four (4) Printed, Signed Copies of Lifting Up
Beautiful Custom Prints from the Book (1)
Join My VIP Author Community & Quarterly Author Chats
Ticket to Virtual Book Launch Party (1) & VIP Access to In-Person Tour Events
Host the ultimate book club, with a virtual pop-in visit and Q&A with Author Jen Marr! Receive in your kit copies of the book, custom prints and notecards, and the official Lifting Up Book Club Discussion Guide.
What you get:
(8) Printed, Signed Copies of Lifting Up
Virtual Author Book Club Visit & Q&A
Lifting Up Book Club Discussion Guide
Beautiful Custom Prints from the Book
Pack of Custom Notecards
Join My VIP Author Community & Quarterly Author Chats
Tickets to Virtual Book Launch Party (8)
VIP Access to All In-Person Book Tour Events (8)
For the first time ever, the official masterclass in Showing Up and Lifting Up Supportive Leadership. Experience our signature workshops with a community of like-minded people all passionate about the power of lifting others up. 5 sessions beginning in January 2024 on each of our signature workshops: The Discovery Workshop, The Showing Up Workshop, The Awkward Zone Workshop, Team Connections Workshop, and The Supportive Leader Workshop. Receive a copy of Lifting Up when it publishes and a copy of Showing Up immediately to jumpstart mastering the skill!
What you get:
Exclusive Monthly Masterclass With 5 Signature Workshops
1 Printed, Signed Copy of Lifting Up
1 Printed, Signed Copy of Showing Up
Meet the Author
My name is Jen Marr, and I am the author of Lifting Up: The Transformative Power of Supportive Leadership.
For the past 12 years, I’ve immersed myself in researching human care, connection, and support—writing, developing programs, and training people on how to show up.
Since publishing my second book Showing Up in 2022, I knew a companion leadership book was needed to offer a pragmatic approach to leading others through challenging times.
The issue isn’t that we don’t have good people leading. It’s that leaders need better skills to show they care, so people feel valued and want to stay in their jobs.
This new book—and the workshops that go with it—help with that. My goal for this book is to give leaders the tools they need to be confident in bringing their teams together and activating their potential.
After two years of testing and piloting workshops with hundreds of leaders nationwide, this work is field-tested and ready to go.