Crafting a unique blend of storytelling and evidence-based research, Ni a Ellison has distilled her more than twenty years of hands-on experience as leadership coach, designer of leadership training programs, and leader herself into one helpful volume, Lifeboat Leadership: Discovering Grace in the Waves of Change.

Ellison explains that the answer to "How can I be the kind of leader that successfully navigates the inevitable changes put before me and those I lead?" is simple: explore four principles within a leadership matrix called RAFT:

- Relationships
- Accountability
- Focus
- Thought

Lifeboat Leadership describes all these in-depth, as well as one final, perhaps revolutionary, concept, which ties these principles together in a final bid for transformational leadership and excellence.