Did you know that 40%-50% of leaders fail, quit or are pushed out within the first 18 months in their jobs?  If you want to be successful in today’s rapidly changing business environment, there are nine behaviors you need to be aware of and adopt.  They are key to moving your agenda forward and making a bigger impact, sooner.  Failure to respect them can prevent you from implementing your plans, reduce the impact you make, and even derail your career.

The Performance Excellence Network is pleased to welcome Lee Eisenstaedt of Chicago-based Leading with Courage Academy to our April 3 Rochester PEN breakfast discussion: “Making a Bigger Impact, Sooner:  The Nine Behaviors of Leading With Courage®.”  This is the rescheduled breakfast from our January discussion, postponed due to snow!  Lee will be joined by Deb Peters of Morgan McGuire Leadership LLC.

This interactive session will be based on Lee’s Amazon bestseller, Being A Leader With Courage, and they will emphasize tools that you can apply immediately after the session.  In addition to learning about the nine behaviors of effective leaders with courage, by attending this session, you will:

• Self-assess your leadership and listening skills;
• Be introduced to a tool that will help you decide which of five decision making styles is most appropriate for a situation;
• Learn three simple questions to ask if you want to be a better leader;
• And more!

The discussion is at Woodlake Meeting Center, Rochester MN (details provided after registration). Continental breakfast will be served from 7:15 to 7:45 with announcements at 7:45 and the presentation from 8:00 to 9:30 am.  No cost for members; $30 for non-members.

Livestreaming (free) and video-on-demand ($20 for members) are now also available (discounted annual subscriptions are available and Premium/Sponsoring Members are free).

To register (to attend in person or view livestream or on-demand):

Biographies

Lee Eisenstaedt brings more than 35 years of diverse leadership, finance and operations experience to the clients of the Leading With Courage® Academy.  The CFO of SC Johnson has described Lee as a well-rounded businessman because he’s “…worked for more than two companies, in more than two functions, in more than two countries.”

Lee focuses on helping new and emerging leaders make a bigger impact, sooner. He is accomplishing this through the Leading With Courage® Workshop and the Leading with Courage® Academy, both of which are based on his Amazon best-seller Being A Leader With Courage:  How To Succeed In Your C-Level Position In 18 Months Or Less (May 2016).

Prior to founding Leading With Courage Academy, Lee was a founding partner of L. Harris Partners, LLC, during which time he surveyed/interviewed several thousand clients of professional services firms.  He has been a Chief Operating Officer of a Top 5 and a Top 50 CPA firm.  Lee spent the majority of his career, 22 years, with the SC Johnson family of companies – including the consumer products company, the SC Johnson family office, and Johnson Outdoors, Inc. – in the U.S. and Western Europe, frequently as the “right hand” to the leader of the division, subsidiary or country to which he was assigned.

Lee’s second book Being A Leader With Courage was published in May 2016 and became an Amazon best seller in July 2016.  He is also the co-author of the book Wallet Share: Grow Your Practice Without Adding Clients, and is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences of practitioners of professional services.  Lee is currently working on his third book, Leading With Courage® In Sports.

Lee received his MBA from Northwestern University and his BA from Franklin & Marshall College. He has attended executive programs on marketing at Harvard, Wharton, and Northwestern Universities, and executive development programs at INSEAD and the Center for Creative Leadership.  Lee is also a Certified Everything DiSC Trainer, Net Promoter® Certified Associate and a member of Attorneys for Family Held Enterprises (AFHE), Family Firm Institute (FFI), Private Directors Association (PDA), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Association Forum.

Lee will be joined by Deb Peters of Morgan McGuire Leadership.  Deb is a leadership strategist, organization development (OD) practitioner and culture change coach.  Before creating Morgan McGuire Leadership, Deb was an OD leader at NCR, McGladrey and UnitedHealth Group.  For 25 years, she has served as a master facilitator and executive coach for leaders in organizations ranging from small business to the Fortune 500.