The book

Growing Into Leadership

Lessons Learned Along the Way

A collection of real-life stories that takes you on an unassuming yet compelling journey through forty years of laboratory life. The events speak to openness, curiosity, authority, power, knowledge, and influence — and to a kind of leadership that creates a culture of optimism, empowerment, and personal development.

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Who it's for

Leadership you can grow into.

You don't need a title to start leading — most of Susan's leaders started at a bench. The book meets you wherever you are on that path.

The bench scientist stepping up For the technologist who keeps getting handed the hard problems and wonders whether leading people is a skill they could learn. It is. Start here

The new supervisor Promoted for excellence at the work, now responsible for the people who do it — the transition the book walks through story by story. Most useful

Leaders beyond the lab The settings are laboratories; the lessons — openness, influence, engagement, change — are anywhere people do exacting work together. Any industry

The shelf

Room for what's next.

Forty-four years produce more than one book's worth of lessons. The next title is already growing — Insights is where its ideas will first appear.

Growing Into Leadership

Leadership you can grow into.

Room for what's next.

Read it, then bring your questions.