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Michael Lee Stallard added the blog post 'Why "Up In the Air" is a "Must See"'Dec. 27, 2009
Michael Lee Stallard added the blog post 'The Blind Side'Nov. 28, 2009

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President
Organization Name
E Pluribus Partners
Information About Me
Michael Lee Stallard is a leading authority on leadership and employee engagement. He is the co-founder, president and CEO of E Pluribus Partners, a consulting firm that specializes in helping leaders create “Connection Cultures” to form strong bonds among the management, employees and customers of an organization. Connection Cultures increase employee and customer engagement as well as productivity, profitability, innovation, employee retention and customer loyalty. In the past year, clients have included Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Wachovia, UBS, General Re and several hedge funds.

Michael is the primary author of the book Fired Up or Burned Out. It has been widely praised by well-respected leaders and thought leaders. Frances Hesselbein, Chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute, described the book as "the indispensable leadership guide for leaders everywhere." Russell Reynolds, Jr., founder and former CEO of Russell Reynolds Associates wrote, "An enthralling and impressive work. It shows how to empower people and create great societies, corporations and cultures. I'm giving it to everyone at my own firm." William A. Holstein of The New York Times wrote that Michael’s ideas on connection reflect “great wisdom.” Michael Fitzgerald, who writes for The Economist and Inc wrote on BNet, “The soft stuff counts and Stallard's book helps...It's impossible not to find some example that will make you rethink your own approach to other people in your working life." Fired Up or Burned Out has also been praised by executive coach and best-selling author Marshall Goldsmith as a book that contains ideas that help leaders engage knowledge workers.

Michael’s work has been in the media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Leader to Leader, Leadership Excellence, M World: The Journal of the American Management Association, Perdido, Live Mint (in India), Shukan Daiyamondo (in Japan), Capital (in Dubai), Rotman Magazine of The University of Toronto (Canada in Spring 2009) and Fox Business Now. He is a regular contributor to India’s largest circulated business daily newspaper, The Economic Times. Michael has spoken at conferences organized by Fortune magazine, The World Presidents Organization, the American Bankers Association, The Corporate Executive Board, the Innovation Council and the Investment Company Institute. He is a guest lecturer on employee and customer engagement at New York University’s Stern School of Business, The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, The University of Toronto’s Rotman School and the Center for Creative Leadership.

Prior to founding E Pluribus Partners, Michael was chief marketing officer for businesses at Charles Schwab and Morgan Stanley. The programs identified and implemented by the team he assembled and led at Morgan Stanley contributed to doubling the business unit's revenues over a two year period. The practices he and his team developed became the genesis for his approach to elevating the productivity and innovation of individuals and organizations. Earlier in his career, Michael worked as an executive in investment banking, marketing, finance and business development-related positions at Texas Instruments, Van Kampen Investments and Barclays Bank, PLC. Michael’s educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Illinois State University, an M.B.A. from University of Texas Permian Basin, and a J.D. from DePaul University Law School. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1991. Michael is married and has two daughters.
Additional information about Michael can be found at
www.epluribuspartners.com (company website)
www.fireduporburnedout.com (book website) and
www.michaelleestallard.com (blog)

Michael Lee Stallard's Blog

Michael Lee Stallard

Why "Up In the Air" is a "Must See"

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Posted on December 27th, 2009 at 7:43am —

Michael Lee Stallard

The Blind Side

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Posted on November 28th, 2009 at 10:32am —

Michael Lee Stallard

Value and Visibility of Connecting Leaders to Rise in Organizations

Michael Maccoby has written about the necessity of leadership systems where leaders with different but complementary strengths work together. The connecting/networking leaders is one of the leaders Michael identifies. Some CLOs I know are natural connecting/networking leaders and i believe this is a role that CLOs can perform. I just hosted a webcast interview with Polly Pearson, Vice President of Employee Brand and Strategy Engagement at EMC. She is a connecting/networking leader, the hub in a… Continue

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 at 9:01am —

Michael Lee Stallard

Servant Leaders, Lonely Leaders and Organizational Learning

In my experience as a leader, a board member and an advisor to leaders, I've learned that all great leaders are "servant leaders," a term first used by Robert Greenleaf in his influential essay "The Servant as Leader." Organizations with servant leaders have cultures that are open to new ideas and opinions that are essential to organizational learning. Recently, I hosted several leadership and employee engagement webcasts that have a l…

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Posted on March 30th, 2009 at 9:00am —

Michael Lee Stallard

Virtuous Organizations and Storytelling

Recently, I hosted a series of webcasts that will help individuals who want to promote virtuous organizational cultures and/or who are interested in organizational storytelling. In the first webcast, Professor Kim Cameron of the University of Michigan talks about Positive Organizational Scholarship and the case for virtuous organizational cultures. In a second, Rick Garlick of Maritz Research presents compelling research that virtu… Continue

Posted on February 28th, 2009 at 8:23am —

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