Planning organizational change through leadership optimizationLeadership optimization is a highly personalized communications strategy that helps leaders become more effective at timely decision-making and relationship building at higher levels. It is less operational focused and is designed to raise visibility and credibility with targeted audiences when business transformation is required.Business transformation ...

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Optimize Performance With Personal Branding for CEOs

I have had the pleasure of working with many judges, politicians, CEOs, entrepreneurs, top-level surgeons, rising stars, and many other business leaders. One of the reasons (back in the corporate days) I was chosen for specific "secret" projects is my discretion, deference to others, and confidence in working with very ...

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Do Soft Skills Predict Success for High-Potential Leaders?

Ages and Stages: As the parent of two Millennial children and with much attention placed by the media on the performance of this generation, a short perspective is offered here. It is the opinion of this author that Millennials face the same barriers as others in the workforce. They also ...

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Navigating the Modern Workplace: Understanding Millennial Professionals in Today’s Day-in-Age

Are you a Turnaround or Growth leader seeking a new opportunity?The pathway to a CEO role for a portfolio company may be a logical next step in your career when you consider the structure of a private equity firm and its particular mandate and meet the performance criteria.It’s a complicated ...

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CEO Pathways to PE Portfolio Companies

Driving peak performance for CEOs and their boards, Westgate Executive Branding Offers Premier Advisory Services & Personal Branding Consulting for High-Profile Leaders. About Maureen—CEO & Founder. In 2018, I conducted primary research by interviewing approximately 20 CEOs and industry leaders and high potential leader engagement. My thesis (and my observations based ...

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Key-Person Retention in 2023

Driving peak performance for CEOs and their boards, Westgate Executive Branding Offers Premier Advisory Services & Personal Branding Consulting for High-Profile Leaders. About Maureen—CEO & Founder. Improving leadership through improv (from an improver’s perspective)My name is Maddie Shears, and I am the podcast producer for Westgate’s Get Hired Up!I’m delighted to ...

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The power behind improv