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Leila Bulling Towne
Achievements
Management thought leader and host of the CBS Interactive video series, "Leila's House of Corrections." Ms. Manners for leaders and managers. Authoritative, sharp, direct, matter-of-fact executive coach with video and radio experience.
Available for speaking engagements, workshops, seminars or other events.
Areas of Expertise:
• Business and Leadership Ethics
• CEO, Executive, and Leadership Gaffes
• Executive Communication
• Generation Y, X, and Boomer Leaders
• Managing During Good & Bad Economic Times
• Transition to Leadership
Biography
Leila Bulling Towne is a seasoned strategist specializing in management and leadership sociology and communication.
As an executive coach, Leila and her associates help busy executives make smart business and employee decisions with courage and a forward-thinking approach. During tough times, her techniques emphasize tangible, strategic steps for managing during downturns: how to lead ahead and manage more with less.
Her clients range from well-funded Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 1000 companies and she has worked with executives throughout the US and Western Europe.
She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, HR, Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, Women’s Health, Heart and Soul, SHRM.org and CareerSmart Advisor.
She hosts her own weekly CBS Interactive video series. In each 3 minute video, Leila captures the essence of today’s most pressing management concerns, teaching business leaders how to motivate their teams to profit and productivity. The videos are streamed thousands of times daily and featured on the CBS Interactive network as well as Monster.com, FinancialPost.com, and numerous other venues.
Leila’s radio commentary can be heard on CBS radio stations nationwide in the BNET Business Minute.
She is a go-to webinar host for the Society for Human Resource Management. Thousands of participants log into her webinars on topics such as managing more with less, delivering feedback so employees “get it,” and employee performance challenges and solutions.
Leila graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with an AB in English and German. She received her MA in English from The Claremont Graduate School at The Claremont Colleges.
Expertise
Selection of Current Topics:
1. Ready, Set, Time to Recover from the Recession
2. Surrounded by Generation Y: What NOT to do
3. Terrific Time to Headhunt. Bad time for slackers! Why Companies Should be Hiring Now.
4. Office Gossip: It's Not Just About American Idol
5. Survivor's Guilt: the Newest Workplace Disease
6. Leaders Who Left Us In the Lurch Lead to Lost Trust . . . in Corporations & the Economy
7. When Employee Personal Problems are No Longer Private
8. Rescue Your Career from the Recession
9. Breaking out of Job Jail
10. The Economy’s in the Tank--Time to Ask for a Raise
11. Hiring Engineers Isn't Rocket Science
12. Listen Up, Human Resources: If You're Not Coaching Executives, You're Letting Some Else Do the Work You'll Get Promoted For
Location
San Francisoc, CA