The Secret Sauce To Leadership With Willie Pietersen, Author Of Leadership

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The Secret Sauce To Leadership With Willie Pietersen, Author of Leadership—The Inside Story

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On this Live Greatly podcast episode, Kristel Bauer sits down with Willie Pietersen, author of Leadership—The Inside Story: Time-Tested Prescriptions for Those Who Seek To Lead. Willie shares stories, experiences and the secret sauce of leadership learned from his time being CEO of multibillion-dollar businesses, a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, and a consultant to some of the world’s biggest and best-known organizations. Tune in now!

Key Takeaways From This Episode

How leadership is all about people
Some big lessons Willie learned amid his leadership journey
How to get better at receving feedback and why it is important
Stories about what makes a great leader

About Willie Pietersen:

Willie Pietersen was raised in South Africa, and received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. After practicing law, he embarked on an international business career. Over a period of twenty years he served as the CEO of multibillion-dollar businesses such as Lever Foods, Seagram USA, Tropicana and Sterling Winthrop’s Consumer Health Group.

In 1998, Willie was named Professor of the Practice of Management at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He specializes in strategy and the leadership of change, and his methods and ideas, especially Strategic Learning, are widely applied within Columbia’s executive education programs, and also in numerous corporations.

He has served as a teacher and advisor to many global companies, including Aviva, Bausch & Lomb, Boeing, Chubb Corp., Deloitte, DePuy, Electrolux, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Henry Schein, Inc., Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Novartis, Salt River Project, SAP, UGI, United Nations Federal Credit Union and also the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Willie is the author of three books and numerous articles. His latest book is Leadership—The Inside Story: Time-Tested Prescriptions for Those Who Seek to Lead.

Connect with Willie:

Website: https://williepietersen.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willie-pietersen-286b149/

Get Willie's Book: https://williepietersen.com/books/leadership-the-inside-story-time-tested-prescriptions-for-those-who-seek-to-lead/

About the Host of the Live Greatly podcast, Kristel Bauer:

Kristel Bauer is a corporate wellness and performance expert, keynote speaker and TEDx speaker supporting organizations and individuals on their journeys for more happiness and success. She is the author of Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony, and Peak Performance Wherever You Work (John Murray Business November 19, 2024). With Kristel’s healthcare background, she provides data driven actionable strategies to leverage happiness and high-power habits to drive growth mindsets, peak performance, profitability, well-being and a culture of excellence. Kristel's keynotes provide insights to “Live Greatly” while promoting leadership development and team building. Kristel is the creator and host of her global top self-improvement podcast, Live Greatly. She is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur, and she is an influencer in the business and wellness space having been recognized as a Top 10 Social Media Influencer of 2021 in Forbes. As an Integrative Medicine Fellow & Physician Assistant having practiced clinically in Integrative Psychiatry, Kristel has a unique perspective into attaining a mindset for more happiness and success. Kristel has presented to groups from the American Gas Association, Bank of America, bp, Commercial Metals Company, General Mills, Northwestern University, Santander Bank and many more. Kristel has been featured in Forbes, Forest & Bluff Magazine, Authority Magazine & Podcast Magazine and she has appeared on ABC 7 Chicago, WGN Daytime Chicago, Fox 4’s WDAF-TV’s Great Day KC, and Ticker News. Kristel lives in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area and she can be booked for speaking engagements worldwide.

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