Make Space to Lead: Break Patterns to Find Flow and Focus on What Matters

How can making space transform the way we work and live?

Many high-achieving professionals believe that we must continually drive ourselves to work harder to gain the success we desire. But the reality is that we’ve trapped ourselves within this pattern of busyness and overwork.

If you’ve ever felt burned out, overwhelmed, anxious and unsatisfied in your work life, it’s imperative to make space to figure out what truly fulfills you. From her twenty-two years’ experience in Silicon Valley, award-winning design leader and international speaker, Tutti Taygerly shows readers how you can design your best professional and personal lives using the design process of research, ideation, and focused action.

Make Space to Lead shares ideas, stories, and experiments from leaders at the top technology companies and startups. Insights include:

• The Cult of Achievement: how to break the busyness cycle and why accomplishing more won’t bring you the validation you seek.
• It’s okay to exhale. You need a break from the constant to-do list and milestones and make room for creativity and flow. Pausing and slowing down your thinking actually makes you stronger
• How to develop self-awareness to see the recurring patterns in your work life. With this superpower, you can learn how to break old patterns and challenge yourself to change
• How to build better relationships through embracing your strengths and unique leadership
• As a surfer, Tutti shares how surfing as a metaphor balances the achievement and flow needed to be a leader in business and your own life.

This book will show you how to stop feeling stuck and anxious all the time so you can stop getting in your way, find flow, and enjoy simply being.

Make Space to Lead will be your hands-on guide to research, create experiments, and take action on what matters for your leadership.

Tutti Taygerly is an executive leadership coach and professional speaker. Previously she was a design leader at design firms, startups, and large companies including Disney and Facebook. She supports CEOs and tech leaders to embrace their unique leadership style to achieve professional impact. She has written for Business Insider and Fast Company.

Tutti grew up in seven countries on three continents and is settled in San Francisco as her home base. She spends her time parenting two spirited girls, obsessively reading, and paddling out for the next wave. Find her at tuttitaygerly.com.