A chat with Founder & CEO Douglas R. Conant plus team Conant Leadership
Release Date: 09/06/2023
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info_outlineFounder & CEO: Douglas R. Conant
Douglas R. Conant is an internationally renowned business leader, New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and social media influencer with over 40 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies. For the past 20 years of his leadership journey, he has honed his leadership craft at the most senior levels—first as President of the Nabisco Foods Company, then as CEO of Campbell Soup Company (https://conantleadership.com/the-campbell-soup-story/), and finally as Chairman of Avon Products. In 2011, he founded ConantLeadership—a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works in the 21st century. Today, Doug, among his other board commitments, also serves as Chairman of CECP (http://cecp.co/about/) and as Chairman of the Higher Ambition (https://www.higherambition.org/) Leadership Alliance. Learn more about Doug here: https://conantleadership.com/about/doug-conant/
Chief of Staff: Mara Katsikis
Mara is an enthusiastic developer of people and a seasoned leader of high-performing small business teams. She delights in helping contributors to grow their skill sets and thrive in a fiercely complex marketplace. With a background in negotiation, public relations, business development, human resources, and training and development, she is the perfect “Jack(ie) of all trades” to steward the small but hearty leadership team to ongoing growth. She is responsible for contributing to the management of all organizational operations including strategic planning, board of director work, finances, marketing, speaking engagements, publishing efforts and the advancement of a substantial not-for-profit agenda.
Executive Administrator: Diana Hansen
Diana is so essential to the day-to-day operations at ConantLeadership that she has earned the alternate job titles of “Chief Logistical Officer,” “Right-Hand-Woman,” and “Planning Goddess,” depending on the scheduling, business, and administrative challenges of the day. With a long career supporting executives at the highest levels of Fortune 500 companies, Diana is tenacious, detail-obsessed, creative, whip-smart, and clairvoyant. She anticipates and addresses what is needed to support and advance the operations of the enterprise oftentimes before the company (or even CEO) is aware. It’s no surprise that her professional excellence has been recognized throughout the industry: She is a distinguished winner of the 2022 Admin Awards (https://www.adminawards.com/philadelphia/#winners), the highest honor in the administrative profession.
Save the date:
2 Day Virtual Boot Camp (Nov 8 & 10, 2023): https://conantleadership.com/bootcamp/
Free Summit (Sept 25-29, 2023): https://start.conantleadership.com/blueprint-leadership-summit/