Rob Lebow, one of the top leadership development experts in the country, says everyone wants to be a hero. So where are all the heroes? Lebow will answer this question at Lynchburg College at 7:30 p.m. February 18 in the Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center.
"Where Have All The Heroes Gone: Eight Steps to Creating a Heroic Environment" is the title of his talk, a Richard P. Gifford Lecture sponsored by the LC School of Business and Economics. A book signing will follow.
The problem, Lebow says, is that businesses and organizations punish people who take risks. Lebow's book, A Journey into the Heroic Environment, addresses this contradiction.
"Imagine a place where everyone puts the interests of others before their own," Lebow says. "Where everyone tells the truth and where trust and mentoring abound. That place is called a Heroic Environment."
In 2005, Leadership Excellence Magazine named Lebow "One of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in the World."
During the past 22 years, his international organization, LCI (Lebow Co. Inc.), has worked with more than 300 clients worldwide and was ranked one of The Top 10 Best Leadership Development Organizations in America in both 2005 and 2006.
A bestseller, A Journey Into The Heroic Environment, is in its third edition and has become a business classic with more than 350,000 books published in seven languages. Lebow's talks always center on the theme of Shared Values and the impact character, respect and trust have on an organization's success, and on the care customers inside and outside an organization receive.
Lebow's talks and inspirational style are supported by LCI Research that has linked a high correlation with the leading performance indicators, including profits and margins, accidents on the job, customer care and service excellence, waste, organizational flexibility - bureaucratic behaviors, employee engagement levels, employee turnover, internal corruption - ethics and integrity (Sarbanes-Oxley compliance) and future financial success to how staff members are treated. The landmark international 2,500+ site Study™ called the Values & Attitude Study™ tests for the "Eight Shared Values" -a set of eight values that LCI registered and trademarked in the late 1980s.
Lebow holds both bachelor and master's degrees and attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for his undergraduate work, and the University of Virginia and The Graduate Center of City University - New York for his master's studies. He has been married to his wife, Sharon, for 40 years, and has a daughter, Lauren, who works in the NASCAR world as a technician. His family presently lives in the Seattle area where LCI Corporate Headquarters operates.
Lebow's sixth book, When You Grab A Cat By The Tail! hit Barnes & Noble and other national chain bookstores for the 2007 holiday season.
Lebow spent nearly a decade in the cosmetics industry where he led one of AVON products' most successful divisions. He later joined Microsoft Corp. and was part of the marketing team that introduced Windows to the world.
For more information and for seating arrangements for groups, call 434/544-8417.