Are You Being Strategic to Create the Life You Want?

Being Strategic: Plan for Success, Out-Think Your Competitors, Stay Ahead of Change

Erika Andersen

Welcome to a Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. Joining us today is Erika Andersen whose new book is titled Being Strategic: Plan for Success, Out-Think Your Competitors, Stay Ahead of Change.

Erika is founder of Proteus International, a leadership consultancy. She has developed a reputation for creating learning and change processes and programs uniquely tailored to her clients’ challenges, goals, and culture. She and her colleagues at Proteus International offer practical methods and skills for individuals, teams, and companies to clarify and then achieve their hoped-for-future.

Strategic is one of those buzzwords like innovation. I think most of us have sat in "strategy" meetings that could have been called "brainstorming" sessions. Or, in this economy, "hail Mary" meetings. So my first question to Erika; "How do you define 'strategic?' "

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Much of Erika's recent work has focused on organizational visioning and strategy, executive coaching, and management and leadership development. In these capacities she has served as consultant and advisor to the CEOs and top executives of a number of corporations, including MTV Networks, Regeneration Technologies, Inc., the French Culinary Institute, Rainbow Media Holdings, Union Square Hospitality Group, Lifetime Television, and Comcast Corporation.

She has been invited to share her insights about managing people and creating successful businesses by speaking before a number of organizations, including corporations, non-profit groups and national associations. Her models, ideas and learning guides have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, German and French, and she has been quoted in a variety of national publications, including Glamour, Fortune and Training magazines.