Putting Yourself Out There: When Authenticity and Risk Collide!

Authentic, Authentic Leadership, Authenticity, Joe Contrera, Self Improvement

This is a story about a book, a book about what happens when authenticity and risk collide. I started writing my soon to be released book, I Could Love No One Until I Loved Me in early 2009. At the time, I was going through a pretty traumatic time in my life. It was the onset of what some called the ‘second depression’ and my business had been significantly impacted. In what felt like a matter of days, we went from having our best year ever to having one of our worst … overnight.

Oops … I Did It … Again!

Alive @ Work, Alive at Work, Executive Leadership Development, Executive leadership training, Leadership, Leadership Skills Training2 Comments

Oops … I Did It … Again! Saturday I had a chance to watch my girlfriend’s 12 year old daughter Ally play club volley ball. They won their first match pretty quickly and then moved onto the next. It was during this second match that I watched the negative affects that poor leadership has on…

Hey Mr Postman … Listen and See!

Aliveness, Customer Service, Executive Leadership Development, Executive leadership training, Leadership Skills Training, Management Leadership Training, Sales Force Training

Monday of this week I sent an audio CD on managing your energy via the U.S. Post Office to one of my clients.  Tuesday, I found the same envelope that had I dropped off at the post office the previous day in my mail box with a stamp on it that read “Returned For 43…