What if Love was your most powerful business metric?

A bold, actionable framework for leaders ready to build organizations that both perform and uplift.

BOOK OVERVIEW

Love as a KPI introduces a measurable management system for leaders who refuse to choose between results and humanity.

This book redefines love as a decision-making standard and performance construct that drives retention, loyalty, innovation, and sustainable growth.

It challenges the idea that optimizing for outputs is enough. You'll learn how to measure and manage commitment, the fuel that makes everything else possible.

The book reveals:

  • Why traditional metrics miss what drives performance: people who choose to give discretionary effort

  • How to operationalize love through four levers (Leadership, Offerings, Value, Engagement)

  • The five indicators that make love observable and improvable (Empathy, Grace, Generosity, Truth, Sacrifice)

  • How redefining success to include people transforms decision-making, culture, and results

This is a system you can implement immediately, whether you're leading a team, building a product, designing policy, or running an organization.

When you finish this book, you'll be more equipped to build organizations where people thrive and performance follows.


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Who this book is For

This book is for leaders who know there's a better way

  • C-Suite Executives & Founders
    You're building a legacy, not just a quarter. You want to lead in a way that inspires commitment, retains top talent, and creates a culture where people choose to stay and build.

  • People & Culture Leaders
    You know retention isn't a perk problem. You need a framework that helps leadership make better decisions, the kind that reduces turnover and builds genuine engagement.

  • Product & Customer Experience Teams
    You're building products people use every day. You know great design goes beyond function. It's about how people feel when they interact with what you've built. You want to create experiences users choose and recommend.

  • Nonprofit & Education Leaders
    You're mission-driven, but resources are tight and burnout is real. You need a way to sustain commitment in environments where people give everything and often get little in return.

  • Values-Driven Entrepreneurs
    You started your business to do something meaningful. You refuse to build it by depleting people. You need a framework that proves love and performance aren't opposites.

  • Emerging Leaders
    You're early in your career but already feeling the tension between "get results" and "care for people." You want to learn how to do both before bad habits set in.

  • Students & Early-Career Professionals

    You're entering the workforce with high expectations and low tolerance for toxic leadership. You want to lead differently from the start.

Meet The Author

Utibe Bassey

Business leader, speaker, and author helping leaders align humanity with high performance.

Utibe has spent years observing, researching, and practicing what separates leaders people choose to follow from leaders people simply endure. Through Love as a KPI, Utibe provides a measurable framework that makes love operational, not aspirational, and shows leaders how to build organizations where commitment is renewable and results are sustainable.


Leader Perspectives on Love as a KPI

  • “Love as a KPI masterfully demonstrates why love must sit at the center of how we define and measure business success. Bassey explains how empathy, generosity, grace, truth, and sacrifice are powerful drivers of performance, the human magic at the heart of business. This work is both inspiring and practical, offering leaders a way to unlock extraordinary results by putting people, and love, first.”

    Hubert Joly

    Harvard Business School, Former Best Buy CEO, Best-Selling Author, The Heart of Business


  • "Love is a KPI is more than a book, it’s a companion for leaders who want to integrate wisdom, faith, and courage into their everyday lives. Utibe has given us a rare gift: insights that are both actionable and soul-nourishing. At a time when so many leaders are weary, this book reminds us that we can lead with both strength and grace, conviction and compassion. I will be recommending it to clients, colleagues, and friends alike.”

    Cammie Dunaway

    Executive Coach and Board Member


  • “Utibe provides a comprehensive framework for understanding Love as a KPI and also provides clear guidance on how to put it to work inside organizations and brands. Her recommendations stem from her own leadership experience, grounded in research, and brought to life through compelling examples. Any leader looking to improve employee and customer experiences should read this book!”

    James Warren

    Founder and CEO, Share More Stories


  • "Business will one day cease; profits will one day lag; employment will one day plummet. It is only a matter of time; all things lead toward decay. Except for love. Love builds up and holds together. Love always is and will never not be. And yet, we stake so little on it. Why? This book is a door into the most excellent way. A hefty claim indeed, one that Utibe Bassey defends well."

    Tyler Hallman

    Leadership Practitioner

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