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Unmasking Toxic Leadership

How to Recognize, Resist, and Recover from Harmful Workplace Power Dynamics

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Pub Date 2 Feb 2027 | Archive Date 4 Mar 2027


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Description

Have you ever felt silenced, diminished, or marginalized by a leader who seemed charismatic on the surface but left you questioning what you were experiencing? You’re not alone.

Unmasking Toxic Leadership provides the language and frameworks you need to discern harmful power dynamics that often hide behind charisma, niceness, or even performative “godliness.” Through compelling stories, solid research, and practical reflection, leadership expert Yulee Lee offers a refreshing and unflinching examination of toxic leadership patterns that devastate individuals and communities, including those within faith-based contexts. Lee writes from both professional experience and her own journey as an Asian American woman navigating these very dynamics.

First, you’ll gain the tools to understand what toxic leadership is, how it disguises itself, and why certain environments allow it to flourish. Next, you’ll explore the deep effects of toxic leadership on individuals and communities, including how toxicity reshapes identities, choices, and relationships. Finally, you’ll learn practices of detoxing, reclaiming agency, and envisioning healthier organizational cultures.

Have you ever felt silenced, diminished, or marginalized by a leader who seemed charismatic on the surface but left you questioning what you were experiencing? You’re not alone.

Unmasking Toxic...


Advance Praise

"Practical, well-researched, and filled with courageous naming, Yulee Lee unmasks toxic leaders without shame or animosity but with compassion. Intentional and inclusive, this work centers not only the perspective of victims but those who are often othered and overlooked. Providing clear steps to repair and restore life after toxic leadership, this book offers hope for a different and more whole future."

Brian Lee, founder and executive director of Broken to Beloved

"There are books you read, and then there are books that read you. Unmasking Toxic Leadership by Yulee Lee is one of those rare works. Never before have I encountered a book that both invited me to honestly process my own experiences and gave me such a clear, wise, and practical pathway to recognize, resist, and ultimately recover from the effects of toxic leadership. With remarkable clarity and deep compassion, Lee doesn't simply expose unhealthy leadership patterns; she helps you understand them, name them, and find a redemptive way forward."

Steve Carter, pastor and author of Grieve, Breathe, Receive

"Yulee Lee has written a fearless book that confronts the pervasive issues in leadership today. She doesn't hold back on the current reality but also challenges healthy leaders to embrace the tension in our own leadership. The tools she has developed, like Power Fit, are practical and deeply helpful in creating a different type of leader. If we are going to stop the mass exodus of young people from the church, then we need to lead differently. Lee gives us a path to do that."

Tommy Nixon, CEO of Urban Youth Workers Institute and author of Embrace the Tension

"Practical, well-researched, and filled with courageous naming, Yulee Lee unmasks toxic leaders without shame or animosity but with compassion. Intentional and inclusive, this work centers not only...


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ISBN 9781514017661
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PAGES 216

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