Lift: 10 Mentorship Touchpoints to Empower Your Team and Accelerate Your Career

by Amy Summers, Stephen Palladino (Illustrator)

Invest in people, not followers. Status fades, impact sticks, and when you lift others, you rise.



If you’re stepping into a leadership role—or striving toward one—you likely want to break away from outdated, top-down management models. You’re aiming to build a team culture that prioritizes collaboration and celebrates shared growth. But in today’s remote and hybrid workplaces, it takes a fresh set of skills to connect meaningfully, offer support, and lead with impact. In Lift, Amy Summers, a pioneer in remote work and virtual mentorship, offers a modern approach to leadership grounded in presence, purpose, confidence, and connection.



Through ten intentional mentorship touchpoints, Summers helps you build stronger relationships with your team, empower their development, and grow into the kind of leader who brings others up with you. Drawing from real stories, practical strategies, and insights from her popular podcast and award-winning seminars, Summers shows you how mentorship doesn’t have to be a heavy lift. It’s not about adding more to your plate—it’s about shifting your perspective. At its core, mentorship is a a shared commitment to potential, trust, and progress.



Whether you’re currently managing a team, preparing to take on more responsibility, or starting your own entrepreneurial endeavor, Lift offers the guidance you’ve been looking for to become a leader who inspires, connects, and creates lasting impact that accelerates not only their careers, but also your own.

Kindle Edition

Published January 30, 2026

About the author

Amy Summers is the author of the bestselling book, “Lift: 10 Mentorship Touchpoints to Empower Your Team and Accelerate Your Career” (Page Two, February 2026). A pioneer in remote work, she has built a career around leadership and mentorship, founding Pitch Publicity® in her mid-twenties and later creating INICIVOX®, a virtual mentorship platform offering free mentorship and interactive “Mentor SkillShare” sessions where participants engage in real time with experienced leaders. Her expertise in communication and mentorship is further showcased through her microcast, “The Pitch with Amy Summers,” and podcast, “Pitch Live with Amy Summers,” both focused on guiding professionals to succeed and lead effectively. Summers’ work has earned national recognition in entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is a graduate of the University of Florida and has served as an adjunct lecturer and on multiple boards. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Student Press Law Center, the nation’s only legal organization dedicated to protecting the free press rights of student journalists.