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Shel Leanne

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Regent Crest
United States

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Dr. Shel Leanne (“Dr. Shel”) is author of Say It Like Obama: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision (McGraw-Hill ) and How to Interview Like a Top MBA (McGraw-Hill). She is  President of Regent Crest, a leadership development company that helps empower young business leaders for success. Participants in her leadership development program, New Generation Leaders, hail from around the world—the United States, Europe, East...

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Dr. Shel Leanne (“Dr. Shel”) is author of Say It Like Obama: The Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision (McGraw-Hill ) and How to Interview Like a Top MBA (McGraw-Hill). She is  President of Regent Crest, a leadership development company that helps empower young business leaders for success. Participants in her leadership development program, New Generation Leaders, hail from around the world—the United States, Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Latin America and Africa. They come from all industries within the Fortune 100 and companies as varied as Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Goldman Sachs, the Vanguard Group, Citibank, Fidelity Investments, General Electric, General Motors, Dell, Bank of America and PepsiCo. She also works with budding entrepreneurs. Dr. Leanne’s insights and work have been cited in national publications such as Businessweek.com. Prior to launching her company, Shel Leanne gained experience working for McKinsey & Company and for Morgan Stanley in New York and London. She subsequently served as a Full Faculty member at Harvard University from 1997-2001, where she taught courses on social entrepreneurship and organizational design. Her students rated her teaching as “Superior” and her classes attracted graduate students from across the Harvard campus, including Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard School of Education. Since launching her company, Dr. Leanne has given additional talks on succeeding in the business world at Harvard Business School. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Shel Leanne holds a B.A. from Harvard College, and earned Masters and Doctoral degrees from Oxford University.

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Leadership, management, careers

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www.sayitlikeobama.com

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Member Blog | 2 recommendations | November 05, 2008 8:57 am
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 will go down as a monumental day in American history, when America elected an African American to serve as its president. What enabled Senator Barack Obama to tear...
Member Blog | 1 recommendation | November 04, 2008 1:31 am
In his column for the Washington Post published on Sunday, November 2, 2008, David Broder stated the following in the article he entitled, An Admirable Campaign Journey: “In what history...
Member Blog | 2 recommendations | November 03, 2008 6:45 pm
As we head into the election on November 4, 2008, many people are wondering whether we will see a “Bradley Effect.” Currently in national polls, Obama is leading McCain by a healthy margin....
Member Blog | 2 recommendations | November 03, 2008 6:41 pm
As we see in my recently published book, Say It Like Obama: the Power of Speaking with Purpose and Vision (McGraw Hill, 2008 - ...

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