Word Choice Matters Last week I visited my best friend in LA and experienced just how powerful word choice is. My friend Derrick’s wife, Grace, is an accomplished lawyer. In our conversations she has taken particular interest in highlighting my use of absolutes. And, while I was aware of this habit, I had never […]

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Don’t Seek RIGHT Answers!

Hello everyone and welcome to Throw Back Thursday! Here’s a piece Leo wrote back in 2009! Enjoy!   Right answers are useless… if they are answers to the WRONG questions.  This one point, has been drilled in me for all the years I have spent in University of Chicago.  Time after time, whether it was a […]

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Top 10 Entrepreneurship Lessons

Hello everyone and welcome to Throw Back Thursday! Here’s a piece Leo wrote back in 2009 while he was building his company, Fitness Arch. Enjoy!   Recently I have been approached by a newly minted entrepreneur who has started asking me about my experience in building a company.  That started me thinking about some of […]

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The Why and The Who

The “WHY” and the “WHO”   Today I had a chance to coach one of my clients, let’s call him Charlie. Charlie is a serial entrepreneur, who is working to bring in and innovative wearable technology to help maximize engagement at a networking event. And as I asked him to give me his pitch he […]

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“I” versus “WE” – what YOU need to know

Lucas was standing in front of a group of financial investors getting ready to pitch his BIG IDEA. “At my company, Sansaire, we have created an incredible product that will revolutionize the cooking industry. We are proud to bring it to you here and show you how it works.” Lucas was one of my clients […]

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Lions and Tigers and Bears: Oh My!: Transforming the fear of public speaking into a source of confidence and conviction

Bill was having one of those bad presentation days.  He was presenting the progress of his department to his superiors, standing in the dark next to a bright PPT monitor feeling his mouth going dry, his hands sweaty and his thoughts racing.   As a director of operations for a multinational company, he was in charge of […]

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Peeling an Onion–the art of an introduction

Recently I did a workshop on the Art of Networking, where I helped participants figure out the most effective ways to tell their story. After the event, Roger, one of the participants called me saying: “Thank you for the valuable information. Until today I always thought it was my job to tell someone my story […]

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Your Story is 30 words or less

Imagine you are at a networking event. There are many people milling around, all with name tags and some that might actually be the perfect connection to help you get the information you are looking for, the sale you are working on, or the job you are searching for. You approach a promising candidate introduce […]

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02/09/2013 Half Day Workshop

Leaders                    Managers                                               Job-seekers                                                                               Speakers   Do you want to learn how to speak with more power and share your knowledge more effectively with your audience?   Then you would not want to miss : SPEAK with Power –Get Results Workshop In this in-depth 4-hour workshop you will:  Identify and overcome two curses […]

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Story as a Therapy… on the Plane

Last Friday I met a woman who has spent a year in a maximum security prison and I let her play with my 7 month old son… Her name is Jennifer and don’t worry, since she got out from prison, she has become a gifted counselor for troubled teens at a small outpatient hospital program. […]

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