Don't walk in front of me and be my leader, don't walk behind me and be my follower, but walk beside me and be my Sister.

Lisa Petrilli

Posted by on Jan 31, 2012 in Our Authors | Comments Off

Lisa Petrilli

Lisa Petrilli is Chief Executive Officer of C-Level Strategies, Inc., Chief Operating and Marketing Officer for the global To Be a Woman platform, and Chief Relationship Officer for CEO Connection. She is passionate about cultivating visionary leadership.

Lisa is also the author of, “The Introvert’s Guide to Success in Business and Leadership,” an Amazon Best-Selling eBook and “Hot New Release” on its launch day. The eBook is featured at Huffington Post and is available at www.TheIntrovertsGuide.net.

As an executive at Baxter Healthcare, Lisa moved up the corporate ladder to ultimately run a $750 million medication delivery business and a team of marketers while negotiating global licensing, commercialization and co-marketing contracts with pharmaceutical companies.

When faced with a PR challenge by Greenpeace, she led a team that created a solution so unique and environmentally friendly that she presented it on behalf of Baxter to a United Nations Environmental Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

She spent a year as an Executive Leadership Trainer at the Baxter Institute training corporate-wide executives on leadership principles and strategies, as well as how to create and communicate a vision for their organization.  She is passionate about bold ideas that are steeped in challenges.

She began collaborating with C-level executives early in her career when she was consulting directly for C-suite officers at some of the country’s most prestigious hospitals on behalf of Baxter Healthcare.

Since that time, Lisa has gained considerable experience working with C-level executives on business growth strategies, creating business visions, leading teams, running million-dollar businesses, providing executive leadership training and implementing Herculean initiatives.

She helps C-suite executives and emerging leaders create strong visions for their companies and for themselves, and then bring these visions to fruition with clear strategies focused on leadership, marketing, business development and social media that align directly with the vision.

Her perspective on Visionary Leadership was the focus of an interview she did on Becoming a Visionary Leader with Intel for their Small Business Blog.

Lisa has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Marketing, International Business & Organizational Behavior and a Bachelor’s Degree from Indiana University’s Honor’s College and Kelley School of Business with a minor in Political Science.

She blogs about leadership at her own Visionary Leadership Blog, for the Lead Change Group, and her blog posts are syndicated at Lead Digital, Business to Consumer, and Alltop.

Lisa is also Co-Founder and Co-Leader of Leadership Chat, www.LeadershipChat.net, a Twitter chat held every Tuesday evening that is attended by leaders from around the globe.

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Lisa can be found @LisaPetrilli on Twitter, at www.gplus.to/lispetrilli on Google Plus, and she is an active member of LinkedIn at www.LinkedIn.com/in/LisaPetrilli.  She welcomes your emails at Lisa@CLevelStrategies.com.