The FENG Chicagoland Leadership Team, along with our strategic executive recruiting partner, SALO LLC, are delighted to have Lee Eisenstaedt, author and founder of The Leading With Courage Academy in Chicago to join us.

Lee will lead us in an interactive presentation/conversation and explore multiple ways to be a more effective leader by being more self-aware:

• Five-minute interactive exercise that demonstrates how great self-awareness improves performance
• Short introduction to emotional intelligence using an exercise called “Good Boss, Bad Boss” that will let them experience EI first hand. I’ve chosen to include this because of how much EI is in the news right now.
• The Rule of Thirds, which is a way of thinking about who to focus on when dealing with employee engagement, gaining buy-in for a proposal, and the like.
• The Three Keys to Employee Engagement, with no-cost specific ways to improve employee engagement
• The Three Values of a Good Team Player
• If time allows, review the nine behaviors of effective leaders and managers based on his research and books

Lee Eisenstaedt is the author of four books on leadership and regularly publishes articles on leadership on Forbes.com.

Six years ago, he founded The Leading With Courage Academy in Chicago. Through it, he is an advisor to owners and leaders of employee- and family-owned businesses who want to build healthier, thriving, sustainable organizations. He does this by facilitating leadership assessments and workshops, including Everything DiSC, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, and emotional intelligence, and a succession planning process. He’s a member of both The ESOP Association and NCEO, as well as the Forbes Coaches Council, and chairs the Program Committee for the Chicago chapter of the Private Directors Association.

Lee has nearly four decades of experience as a senior finance and operations executive with SC Johnson, in both the U.S. and Europe, and as a two-time COO of both a Top 5 (RSM McGladrey) and Top 50 CPA firm (Blackman Kallick, now Plante Moran). He earned his MBA at Northwestern University and has also attended executive programs on Corporate Governance and Marketing at Northwestern and Harvard Universities.

Additional meeting details are as follows:
(1) Please login to the Zoom Link URL that will be sent separately by 545p CST so that the zeeting can begin promptly at 6p.
(2) Dress code: Business Casual with from the waist up (or as far as your video camera can capture).
(3) Coffee and Donuts/Bagels/Pastries (or something stronger/less light) will be served by you and you alone.
(4) Parking – Your parking lot, driveway or garage is the best option.
(5) Suggested donation: $0.00 (for this event; see below for supporting The FENG in general).
(6) Bring 0 printed copies of your resumes/handbills/business cards but have them ready electronically for subsequent distribution.
(7) Be sure you can modify/edit the name that appears in your video window so that we can refer to you by your preferred name rather than, “Dad’s Cell Phone,” “iPhone 10XR,” or “[email protected],” or whatever the default name of your device is when logging into Zoom for the first time.’
(8) Structured networking will follow the formal presentation; be sure to use your well-crafted, practiced and perfected 2-3 minutes effectively (from a professional standpoint – who you are, where you are headed and specifics regarding your target companies/contacts).

This meeting is virtually sponsored by SALO LLC (our special thanks to them!):

James Doyle
Sales Director
o: 312.834.7256
m: 312.371.9024
[email protected]
SALO | Let’s get solving.®

Please Register by Tuesday evening, February 23rd, 5p CST to receive the Zoom link that will be sent to you before noon that day for the next evening’s presentation.

If you miss the deadline, or do not receive the link (make sure you check your SPAM folder), please contact Steve Eschbach. Registrations after deadline will be waitlisted and will require special dispensation from various supreme powers that may be allowed if time and effort can accommodate (we are all volunteers that provide this service so chances of this happening are extremely remote). Also, it is important for you to show up at this meeting on time - please make an effort to do so as the formal remarks will begin as close to the 730a start time as possible.

Members login: http://www.thefeng.org/membersonly/ this will take you to your personal home page. Check box for this event.

Guests of members are welcome. Register on this link: https://www.thefeng.org/chapters/rsvp.php?tid=12817 NEEDS CORRECT LINK

Also, please email Steve Eschbach.

Alumni members are encouraged to attend this meeting and participate in the discussion - it is a great way to give back to the group, and to maintain and build your network.

We hope to see you at the FENG meeting. If you have any questions please contact:



FENG Downtown Chicago Chapter Chairs:

Steve Eschbach
(also Chair of the Madison/Milwaukee Chapter)
[email protected]
(312) 550-9965

Matt Oey
[email protected]
(312) 255-1887

Jerry Scherer
[email protected]
(708) 805-3300

FENG Chicago (Suburban) Chapter Chairs:

Steve Blondell (also co-chair of the Madison/Milwaukee Chapter)
[email protected]
(847) 651-3560

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Log on to the FENG web site, www.thefeng.org using your logon ID and password and go to your home page. Whether it is asking a question or replying to one - if you want an email sent to you when someone responds to you - be sure to check "Notify me” when you are finished.

Asking a Question to Members
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Steve Eschbach
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