Your team knows if you actually see them. Most leaders don't.

Your team can feel the difference between a manager who manages them and a leader who actually sees them. One produces compliance. The other builds the kind of loyalty, performance, and trust that holds together when things get hard.

Lead With Empathy is the practical playbook for managers, executives, and small business owners done leading from a distance and ready to build real connection with their teams.

Written by former CEO and COO Pete Srodoski, this is Volume 02 of The Operator's Edition, the leadership library built for operators, not theorists. Pete doesn't just tell you empathy matters. He shows you how to use it to get results purely tactical management never will.

Inside you'll learn how to:

• Close the gap between sympathy and empathy that costs you your best people
• Develop emotional intelligence as a real leadership skill, not a buzzword
• Use active listening to change conversations and build trust faster
• Lead remote and diverse teams with presence that travels across a screen
• Handle the hardest conversations, including layoffs and feedback that lands
• Navigate crisis as the steady leader your team needs when everything is falling apart
• Build a culture where people work with you, not just for you

86% of employees say empathetic leadership boosts their morale. Leaders who practice it are rated higher by their own superiors.

Winner: #1 Best New Management Audiobook of 2024 (BookAuthority)

The Operator's Edition is a three-book series. Vol. 01, The Small Business Playbook, builds the business. Vol. 03, Build Kickass Teams, builds the team.

Lead with empathy. Build something worth following.

Narrated by Dan Wilson.