Dawn Lennon MA

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Dawn Lennon Quick Facts

Main Areas:Personal and Business Success, Goal-setting, Big Picture Thinking
Best Sellers:Business Fitness: The Power to Succeed--Your Way
Career Focus:Consultant, Coach, Author, Speaker, Blogger
Affiliation:Society for Human Resource Management, Lehigh Valley Arts Council

Dawn Lennon is strategist, mentor, advisor, and coach as each new situation arises.

A career businesswoman, author, and founder/owner of Big Picture Consulting, she has been helping individuals, solo practitioners, and small business owners achieve business and career success for more than a decade. (Follow her blog at http://dawnlennon.wordpress.com . )

Before leaving to start her practice, Dawn spent over twenty years as a senior manager at a Fortune 500 energy company in customer service, management development and training, and consumer programs (a marketing function). She developed award-winning programs, provided expert testimony, led high-profile change initiatives, and implemented best practices.

While in the thick of corporate things, she was an active entrepreneur, owning and operating a commercial horse breeding operation and an equine art gallery. She also spent five years providing practice management consulting to veterinarians.

All of these experiences gave her a broad understanding of what it takes to be a success in any business. She saw first-hand what goes on behind the scenes in a big corporation and in small business. She’s hired over 100 employees, seen the impact of downsizings on good people who lost jobs, overcame political barriers, and developed talented people. She built three entrepreneurial businesses from scratch, took the lumps that go with the territory, and built a loyal customer base.

She learned that there’s nothing more valuable to the growth of a career than being tested under fire and coming out on top.

Dawn has a masters degree from Lehigh University and is author of Business Fitness: The Power to Succeed— Your Way . She’s written numerous articles on achieving success in business and will be sharing lots of insights with those of you who follow her on Facebook and Twitter. Don’t forget to sign up for free stuff on her website: www.ConsultBigPicture.com .

Dawn Lennon Books

Business Fitness:The Power to Succeed--Your Way

Business Fitness | Smart Moves for Career & Business Success

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dawn Lennon

"Your work life is neither a contest nor a race--it is an unfolding."

"Trial and error is a good thing. It's one way you figure things out."

"A small step forward takes you farther than no step at all--particularly when you follow it with another."

"It's counter-productive to set goals if you're not committed to achieving them."

"Goals test our capabilities and our commitments. Achieving them is one way we define ourselves."

"The key to work-life and business independence is elasticity--the more you can do or offer, the more options you have."

"Each success is an elixir that excites us to do more."

Getting Started With Dawn Lennon

Achieving success in the business world is both challenging and mysterious. We are all faced with the questions: "What the kind of success do I want and how hard am I willing to work to get it?" To answer these questions, we need to understand what is really going on in our worklife and in our workplace. It's the things that aren't obvious on the surface that are the keys to positioning ourselves to seize opportunities that are right for us.

The path to this understanding is in Dawn Lennon's business fitness model that is explained and illustrated in her book, " Business Fitness: The Power to Succeed-- Your Way ." She explains the four private moves that we need to adopt--stay well, stay focused, stay current, and stay connected. These are followed by the three public moves--attract a following, take the lead, and implement new ideas. Achieving business fitness is how we build and sustain a career that maximizes our choices, increases opportunities, and delivers the successful life that fits us.

Her website covers more about the seminars she offers, along with coaching and consulting services.