21 Jul July 21, 2015 – Lead Inside the Box Mike Figliuolo & Strategic Careers w Bill Barnett
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Mike Figliuolo – Managing Director, thoughtLEADERS & Author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results
Mike Figliuolo is the Founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS. thoughtLEADERS services are designed to build solid leadership, communication, strategy and operational skills. Mike runs a blog on the thoughtLEADERS website and is the author of “One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership,” which is designed to help leaders define who they are and what their personal leadership philosophy is. His other book, “Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results,” shows leaders how to better allocate their energy across their team members to achieve higher levels of performance. He has spent 10 years at thoughtLEADERS, LLC as Managing Director, 3 years at Scotts Miracle-Gro in corporate strategy, acquisitions and service operations, 3 years at Capital One managing collections strategy and operations, 3 years at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant, and 5 years in the US Army as an armor officer. Mike was named the Columbus, Ohio Small Business Leader of the Year by the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and Business First, and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Leadership Experts in the world in Inc. Magazine.
Bill Barnett – Author of The Strategic Career: Let Business Principles Guide You
Bill Barnett is a business and career strategist and the author of The Strategic Career: Let Business Principles Guide You (Stanford University Press). He helps professionals, executives, and people seeking such careers discover their potential callings and develop plans to get there. During his 23 years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, Bill advised business clients on top strategy issues. As leader of the firm’s Strategy Practice, he pioneered new ways to develop business strategy. Another of his McKinsey roles was to coach partners on their own strategies to grow their impact in the firm. Later, while teaching business strategy at Yale, he found that students seeking his career advice got fresh insights when they deployed the business concepts from class on themselves. Bill researched and developed two fundamental insights: while the specifics are different, business and career strategy are conceptually identical, and using business strategy concepts can help people plot careers. He created a course to help MBA students at Yale and Rice develop their strategies. The Strategic Career pulls this experience together. It shows readers how to set long-term direction to a field or role that may become a calling, turn that aspiration into a long-term action plan, find opportunities to get started, determine which opportunity to accept, and stay on track over time as things change. Bill is a director on the Boards of Eagle Materials and The Bridge, an overseer of the International Rescue Committee, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has blogged on careers for Harvard Business Review. Earlier, Bill worked at the US Department of State and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, was a member of the US delegation to NATO/Warsaw Pact negotiations, and was a Captain in the US Army in Vietnam.
