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| Leslie L. Kossoff |
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Leslie L. Kossoff, internationally renowned executive advisor specializing in strategy and corporate turn-around, has been cited by About.com as “one of the most intelligent and perceptive voices on executive and managerial leadership today.” For over 20 years, she has assisted clients ranging from Fortune 50 to start-up and small and mid-sized firms in a broad range of industries and sectors in the United States, Japan and Europe. Some of her clients include Fidelity Investments, Sony, TRW, Kraft Foods, Baxter Healthcare, the UK National Health Service, Seiko/Epson, 3M, Infonet and GM/Hughes.
Leslie enjoys an outstanding reputation as an invited speaker at professional and educational conferences around the world. During Leslie’s long-term alliance with Dr. W. Edwards Deming—the quality management expert credited with turning around Japanese and Western industry—she assisted in his client consultations and presented on implementation obstacles and strategies at his seminars. Deming declared Leslie, “Quite simply, one of the best at implementation.”
Leslie is the author of the award winning books Executive Thinking and Managing for Quality as well as the upcoming Executive Field Guides Series. She writes the Executive Horizons e-column for Amazon.com, is a “Best Practice” contributor to Business: The Ultimate Resource and the upcoming Q-Finance (published by the Qatar Financial Centre). Leslie also writes a regular column on business strategy and operations improvement in the agricultural sector for Horticulture Week/The Grower.
The author of over one hundred articles in journals including the Financial Times and CEO Magazine, Leslie is frequently quoted in Entrepreneur, Investor’s Business Daily, the London Business School Journal Business Strategy Review and Across the Board magazine. She is a regular guest on the CBS Radio “Business Hour” and ABC Radio’s “On the Job.” Jim Blasingame, host of the syndicated “Small Business Advocate” radio program, cites Leslie as “one of the top organizational thinkers for executives and business owners.”
A former C-level executive in the aerospace/defense, pharmaceutical and entertainment industries, Leslie has testified to the Parliament of the United Kingdom on manufacturing industry and small business issues. She is a founding Board member of the Global Women’s Leadership Center at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, serves as an Advisor to the Board of Cordville Capital Ltd., is on the Advisory Council of the Russia Research Network, and is included in the Who’s Who Registry of Global Leaders and in the International Who’s Who Among Professional Business Women. She is an adjunct professor in the Executive Graduate Business Program of Holy Names University, the Founder and former director of the Institute for Quality and Productivity Improvement at California State University, Long Beach, and has been a member of the Judges Panel for the Sterling Award for Quality in California.
Her philosophy is that it’s all about how you think and a focus on success throughout. No matter what the situation, the thinking you do leads to the best planning, ability to avoid mistakes and the smoothest, most successful delivery and outcomes.
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