Note there is no Minneapolis breakfast in January.  Also note this session is extended to 90 minutes!

 

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 and Trent Clark of Chicago-based Leading with Courage Academy to our January 10 St. Paul PEN breakfast discussion: “Making a Bigger Impact, Sooner:  The Nine Behaviors of Leading With Courage®.”

 

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 Metro State University in the Student Center (details provided at registration). Continental breakfast will be served from 7:30 to 8:00 with the presentation from 8:00 to 9:30 am. No cost for members; $30 for non-members.

 

To register, contact Brian Lassiter at [email protected].

 

Livestreaming (free) and video-on-demand ($20 for members) are now also available (discounted annual subscriptions are available and Premium/Sponsoring Members are free). Please contact [email protected] for more information and for the link to register for 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.

 

During his two European assignments with SC Johnson, Lee lived and worked in Paris, France for five years and had responsibility for finance, accounting, logistics, IT and customer service in five countries within the European Union.  Lee also spent six years with Baxter International, Inc. in various finance and accounting positions.

 

Speaking and Writing

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.

 

Education and Certifications

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.

Trent Clark is Co-Founder of the Leading With Courage® Academy. Having spent his adult livelihood among the top 3% producers in sports and business, Trent is dedicated to empowering people to reach their goals, peak performance and attain their dreams through alignment and positioning. Trent is a nationally recognized certified coach and a Certified Everything DiSC Trainer.

 

Trent has received accolades as both an athlete and coach. He served over 12 seasons – including three (3) trips to the World Series – working with the Detroit Tigers, two-time American League Champion Cleveland Indians and World Champion Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Trent has worked on staff with famed personalities, coaches and executives Mark Shapiro, Nick Saban, Tom Izzo, Mark Dantonio, John Hart, Paul DePodesta, Sparky Anderson, Mike Hargrove, Mike Scioscia, Don Wakamatsu, Jerry Jenkins, Joe Maddon, Bud Black and many others.

 

“Trent is a fabulous presenter!” – Technology Retail Executive, Canada

 

In business, Trent is a founder, an educator and investor. He is a five-year member of the Entrepreneur Organization (EO) serving the EO Global Board Mentorship Sub Committee and also operates as an EOMentorship Summit Facilitator across the globe. As a professional speaker, Trent has served organizations for over 25 years, providing motivation and useful knowledge transfer from the lessons of sport to practical business application. In addition, he continues to ‘pay it forward’ with a quarterly ‘pro bono’ engagement of four events each year serving worthy programming and youth development services.  Trent is currently working on his first book, Leading With Courage® In Sports, which he is co-authoring with Lee Eisenstaedt.

 

Since 2011, Trent has launched two separate startup firms that rose to revenues exceeding $1M USD within the first 15 months of existence.

 

He has served the charitable organization ALL-PRO DAD, Compassion International, Educatis International, Red Mountain Community Church and Hickory Creek Community Church Missions.

 

A University of Toledo BS Graduate with an Education Degree (K-12), Trent earned Varsity Letters in both Tennis and Baseball and was an All-Mac 1st Team Academic Recipient. In addition, Trent played in the 1989 & 1990 NJCAA National Tennis Championships, where the team finished 3rd & 7th nationally.

 

Born in Battle Creek, Michigan, Trent and his wife reside in the Midwest and have five children.