By Lisa Petrilli The word networking, for many people, conjures up images of uncomfortable resume swaps, nametags, bad coffee and socially overpowering individuals attempting to schmooze their way into a sale. Having worked for the last four years with two clients who are major networking powerhouses, including CEO Connection, I can say definitively that those who “get” […]
By Lisa Petrilli Originally written for Blue Focus Marketing and republished here for my readers… Everything communicates. Gary Grates, President and Global Managing Director of Edelman’s Change and Employee Engagement Group, reminded the CEOs who were gathered for this month’s CEO Connection Boot Camp of this fact. We’ve all heard it before but it bears repeating and it […]
By Lisa Petrilli I happened upon Michael Lee Stallard and Howard Behar’s post entitled, “Overcoming Leadership Myopia” on Friday and it resonated with me in such a relevant, honest way that I pleaded with my #LeadershipChat co-host to make it the focus of our December 14th #LeadershipChat. Fortunately, he loved the post too. Thus, our topic tomorrow […]
So, let’s be honest, the last place you’d be likely to find me on a freezing cold, rain and wind-whipped afternoon in upstate South Carolina is in a deer stand out in the elements overlooking a gaggle of hunters shooting at sweet little birds with hunting dogs at their sides. And, if by some strange […]
Yes, I said tush. More importantly, I said “squelch.” Our topic for #LeadershipChat this week can be boiled down into this one word. It’s the essence of what happens when an emerging leader with energy and ideas and drive and maybe even bold vision collides with a resistant leadership team, organization or culture. I really struggled with […]
I spent most of the Thanksgiving holiday in the woods – in the “boonies” to be more precise – and my extended family spent a lot of time sitting around a very large, rustic, dining room table just talking and enjoying our time together. So, in anticipation of the #LeadershipChat topic for this week – the importance […]
I am very blessed to have CEO Connection as one of my clients. It’s an organization connecting CEOs of companies with more than $100 million in revenues and I spend time with the CEOs early on in their membership as Co-Chair of the Membership Committee. One of the perks of the job is that I am […]
I was fortunate to have a truly amiable conversation with a CEO of a major retailer in Europe a few weeks ago. I was worried about the appointment because the first time we’d tried to meet – after numerous scheduling attempts – I’d had to take the call on my iPhone and, lo and behold, only 90 seconds into […]
By Lisa Petrilli I continue to be moved my the number of inspiring and genuinely insightful thoughts being shared at #LeadershipChat each week, even though the chat is still in its infancy. Even more striking is the fact that one of the wishes that Steve Woodruff and I went into this with – for a real […]
By Lisa Petrilli The picture you see is one I took personally on the Antietam Battlefield. The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862 near Sharpsburg, Maryland and, according to Wikipedia, it was the first major battle of the Civil War to take place on Northern soil and was the bloodiest single-day battle in […]