Unbreakable: How to Thrive Under Fear-Based Leaders
Kate Lowry
Scaleheart Press (October 2025)

Ignorance may sometimes be bliss. But knowledge almost always offers safety

 

Fear-driven people are not always recognized… at least not initially.

They have mastered skills that attract attention, can intimidate, and almost always conceal (and appease) their insecurity. Offensive behavior is usually self-defensive with purpose. Kate Lowry wrote this book in order to explain “how to thrive [or at least survive] fear-based leaders.”

First, you need to recognize them for what they are…and aren’t.

Next, you need to realize that their objective is not necessarily control; more often it is compliance and deference.

Finally, you need to recognize where and why you are vulnerable to abuse by fear-based people.

Lowry draws upon a wide and deep abundance of real-world experience to explain HOW best to achieve these separate but interdependent objectives.

There are more fear-based leaders in today’s business world than at any prior time that I can recall. Indeed, they operate throughout our society.

Unbreakable is a must-read for all executives and especially those to whom direct reports have been entrusted to their care.