Climbing the Spiral Staircase

LEANNE MEYER directs the Carnegie Mellon Women's Executive Leadership Academy and is the former executive director of the university's Accelerate Leadership Center at the Tepper School of Business. Drawing from her thirty years of senior-level and executive development, she consults and coaches regularly. Her work focuses on assisting leaders in navigating critical inflection points where many have outgrown their professional identity and need new skills and behaviors to move forward. Her clients include a number of Fortune 100 large and midsize companies. She has a master's degree in industrial psychology from the University of Johannesburg. Her calling is to help leaders make sense of their lives through the reclamation of passion and purpose; her overarching goal is the advancement of women.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD RECLAIMING AND SUSTAINING AMBITION¿THE PEP TALK THE ¿ICKY,¿ AWKWARD CONVERSATION RECONCILING CULTURAL FACTORS YOUR TURN YOU OWN YOUR CAREER THE TRANSITIONS FROM PERFECTION TO PASSION FROM CLUELESS TO CONNECTED FROM WORKER BEE TO STRATEGIC RESOURCE TACTICS TO BUILD YOUR SKILL SET NEGOTIATING FOR YOURSELF CONFIDENT IS NOT HOW YOU FEEL DON¿T BERATE YOURSELF; BE CURIOUS THE QUEST FOR AUTHENTICITY EMBRACE THE NEUTRAL ZONE THE SPIRALING STAIRCASE WORK WITH ME ABOUT THE AUTHOR