About the Book
Step Up is Sailaja’s book on women leadership that takes you through several unexplored aspects of being a woman in Indian professional spaces.
It resonates with readers with the way it delves into the internal psychological landscape of women –- shedding light on an experience that is quite different from men in the same spaces. The book also offers practical tools and practices that women can use to step up into powerful and impactful roles.
It is extremely relevant for current and aspiring women leaders, as well as for entrepreneurs and self-employed women professionals.




Step Up is Sailaja’s book on women leadership that takes you through several unexplored aspects of being a woman in Indian professional spaces.
It resonates with readers with the way it delves into the internal psychological landscape of women –- shedding light on an experience that is quite different from men in the same spaces. The book also offers practical tools and practices that women can use to step up into powerful and impactful roles.
It is extremely relevant for current and aspiring women leaders, as well as for entrepreneurs and self-employed women professionals.
Reviews from readers and leaders
“Women need recognition in a man’s world where they have been historically second fiddle. Organisations and men should change. But Sailaja argues that women too should reflect and deploy their inner strengths. She is so right and accurate.”
“Corporate India lacks women in leadership roles. Women are falling behind at every level, especially just outside the gilded doors of the C-suite. Step Up allows women to challenge the unique barriers to their advancement and explores their leadership potential through a distinctive inside-out approach.”
“Step Up draws its ‘pulsating with life, change-maker, easy to identify with’ trademark from the lived realities of its author –- a practising psychotherapist –, and her coachees, brought alive through personal narratives, soul- searching tools. The book grasps you…, a must-read for anyone seeking to make a difference, anywhere, at any scale.”




Step Up: A Runaway Bestseller
Step Up was published in 2019, and it became an Amazon bestseller right away. It was ranked:
- #1 in the Business Self Help category
- #1 in the Hot New Releases in Education category
- #1 in the Movers and Shakers category
- #1 in the Hot New Releases in Business Self Help category
- #2 in the Education category
- #3 in the Business, Strategy & Management category
- #56 bestseller overall
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