HOUSTON, Jan. 20, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Susan Steinbrecher, Institute of Heart-Centered Leadership, 609 W. Harwood Rd., Hurst, Texas (76054), www.instituteofhcl.com, Co-Author, HEART-CENTERED LEADERSHIP: An Invitation to Lead from the Inside Out, teaches seven HEART-CENTERED leadership principles that are proven to produce healthier bottom lines. The authors assure that the practice of these principles provides a trickle-down effect that transforms careers, organizations, and individual lives. Heart-centered leadership means an individual must be a genuine, caring, open person. The seven principles, characterized by care, concern, warmth, honesty and humility are:
1. Know Thyself 2. Don't Assume, Don't Judge, Come to Understand 3. They Need What You Need 4. Letting Go 5. Know the Impact of Your Words and Actions 6. Associates Have a Choice: They Ultimately Will Go Along Or Not 7. Care for the Heart
HEART-CENTERED LEADERSHIP offers hypothetical and real-world examples to back-up the seven principles. Helpful exercises are also included to help the reader think about how heart-centered leadership can be implemented within their organization.
Steinbrecher and co-author, Joel B. Bennett, Ph.D., are the first to introduce the connection of a body, mind, spirit relationship to a successful bottom line. Steinbrecher stands firm in her conviction that the seven principles are necessary for success. She states the existing battle-hardened leadership style governing Corporate America is passe.
The findings from a fourteen-year corporate career, combined with the professional experience and knowledge acquired from Steinbrecher's results-oriented communications/management firm, provided the impetus needed to co-author HEART-CENTERED LEADERSHIP with Joel B. Bennett, Ph.D. The book took form because Steinbrecher continued to learn from her clients the limitations of "by-the-book" management and traditional leadership.
Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc., 609 W. Harwood Road, Hurst, Texas (76054), 817.268.3650, info@instituteofhcl.com, a communications and management firm, was founded in 1992 by President and CEO, Susan Steinbrecher.
FACT SHEET
Susan Steinbrecher is Founder, President and CEO of Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc., a results-oriented training and consulting firm specializing in communications and management development.
Susan enjoyed a 14-year meteoric career rising from entry level to top level at one of the country's best-known hotel chains. She has seen it all -- from the trenches to the executive suite. As one of the chain's youngest General Managers ever, Susan went on to Corporate Director of Training, creating and overseeing an innovative General Manager's Leadership School for 100+ hotels. From there, she put in place company-wide programs such as Empowerment Training and Customer Service Training, resulting in significant and measurable increases in guest satisfaction service scores. She was chosen as one of just two managers (from a field of 5,000 candidates) to be awarded a place at the company's elite Executive Leadership Course.
In 1992 Susan formed Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc., offering corporations and individuals innovative, life-changing and profit-building solutions to challenges in the areas of operations, human resources, training and coaching. Under her leadership the company has tripled in size. From the very beginning, one of her primary goals was to create seamlessness between her company's mission and methods. Passionately committed to the development and motivation of individuals and businesses, she has created an organization that is impeccably responsive to the needs of its clients. Susan brings to the table an extraordinary pairing of consummate professionalism and hands-on experience.
The success of her mission is reflected in the company's roster of new and repeat clients, which reads like a "Who's Who" of American and global corporations. Her clients choose Susan and her company because of her track record. They keep coming back thanks to her proven ability to increase their leadership and customer service capabilities and, ultimately, strengthen their bottom line profits.
Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc: www.steinbrecherassociates.com Institute of Heart-Centered Leadership: www.instituteofhcl.com, info@instituteofhcl.com 609 W. Harwood Road Hurst, Texas 76054 817.268.3650
About the Book
HEART-CENTERED LEADERSHIP: An Invitation To Lead from the Inside Out Black Pants Publishing, 2003, ISBN: 0-9703736-1-9 Book is available at online booksellers or by calling 817.268.3650.
Partial Client List
Alcatel USA La Quinta Inns AT&T Laidlaw Bank of America Metromedia Restaurant Group Batrus Hollweg Morton's of Chicago Boy Scouts of America Northwest Airlines Capital One On the Border Restaurants Charles Schwab Pizza Hut Deloitte & Touche Playhouse Square Foundation Delta Air Lines Red Lobster Disney University Remington Hotel Corporation EMC Mortgage Restaurants Unlimited Ernst & Young Saltgrass Steak House Friday's Restaurants Sodexho Marriott Services Guests, Inc. SYSCO Corporation Hilton Hotels Taco Bell Homewood Suites Hotels Texas Christian University Hooters of America Texas Instruments Hyatt Hotels Wyndham International Kodak