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Mary Lee Gannon has been featured in: Mary Lee Gannon has been
featured in: U.S. News and World Report, as well as on NPR,
eFinancialcareers.com, msn.com, Forbes.com, CareerBuilder.com
and more. She has presented Webinars for RiseSmart and other
national corporations. Mary Lee has presented for corporations and
organizations nationally that include: New Choices/New Options
Career Development Service, Dress for Success, Girl Scouts Staff
Retreat, Workquest, HEARTH, Girl Scouts of Western PA, One Vision
One Life, Pennsylvania Professional Employment Network, Urban
League of Pittsburgh, Employment Advancement Retention Network,
Fox Chapel Adult Education, and McKeesport Employment and
Training Center. She has been featured on dozens of national radio
stations including: NPR; KCMN, Colorado Springs, CO; KSOP Salt
Lake City, UT; WOCA Ocala, FL; KXEN St. Louis, MO; WJON St. Cloud,
MN; KWAY Waverly, IA; WAMV Amherst, VA; WYCA Hammond, IN;
WNTN Newton, MA; KYYL Brownwood, TX. Her interview on NPR as
well as her with Danielle Hampson of Wnb Radio Network “Mind Your
BIZness” can be heard on this page.
Mary Lee Gannon is a executive leadership coach and productivity
expert who went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
living a country club life to the reality of a difficult marriage, divorce,
homelessness, and welfare. As a guest speaker, she demonstrates
how she went from an earning capacity of $27,000 to president and
CEO. Her book "Starting Over - 25 Rules for When You've Bottomed
Out" is available in bookstores and online. Email Mary Lee at
info@StartingOverNow.com.
Contact Information:
Mary Lee Gannon
412-874-3918
info@startingovernow.com
www.StartingOverNow.com
Gannon Group/StartingOverNow.com
Executive Leadership and Fundraising Coaching
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| View Mary Lee's comments at tolietpaperentrepreneur. com on "How to Break Bad Habits" and How to Find a Mentor. |
| View Mary Lee's article on "Change" on PicktheBrain.com |
For Immediate Release
FROM WELFARE TO CEO
TURNAROUND EXPERT AUTHORS BOOK on STARTING OVER
PITTSBURGH, PA – Executive Coach and personal turnaround and leadership expert Mary
Lee Gannon is living proof that anyone can turn his or her life around quickly with simple
focused strategies. Her book “Starting Over – 25 Rules When You’ve Bottomed Out,”
published by New Horizon Press offers specific hands-on strategies that helped her develop
leadership skills, make ultimate use of her time, uncover hidden career opportunities, be a
problem solver, be more persuasive all while keeping a healthy life balance. This is not just
theory – it holds practical steps that took her from welfare to CEO. Listen to an interview with
Mary Lee on her Web site www.StartingOverNow.com. The book can be found in local
bookstores as well as on Amazon.com and other online bookstores.
At the age of 35 Mary Lee was a stay-at-home mother with four children under seven-years-old
living in an unpalatable marriage behind the facade of a country club life. She filed for divorce
as a leap of faith and a few months later she realized an overwhelming avalanche of litigation
and anger that resulted in her and the children going from Fox Chapel, one of the most lovely
residential suburbs of Pittsburgh, to being homeless, carless, hungry and on welfare. She
understood then that she was going to be the one to provide for her and her four children and
had to figure out a way to do that. She only had a two-year degree in an allied health
profession. Public assistance was not the way she wanted to live her life. She had done the
big cry and a lot of asking, “Why me?” but that got her nothing but more paralyzed with fear.
Mary Lee decided to wipe “guilt” and “worry” out of the way with new behaviors. She shed the
habits of “blame” and “complain” like they were yesterday’s newspaper. Then she pro-actively
defined her transferable skills, developed her sphere of influence, trained in new skills she
had determined would pay off quickly and within a few short years rose to become a president
and CEO of a large hospital foundation.
“At this point in my career I feel a need to give back,” said Mary Lee who presents on
productivity and personal turnarounds to businesses, the community, and employment
development organizations. “I am very blessed to have achieved the success that I have but I
know that it came as no accident. I want to help others meet their dreams by using the
shortcuts that I used to work smart, build networks, acquire new skills and develop
transferable skills.”
Unemployment rates are higher than they have been in decades and many people are
suffering because they don’t know how to find work or where to begin. Whether you are an
empty nester who is re-entering the workforce, an entrepreneur who is looking for a way to
network, someone who has been recently laid-off, a person seeking their first job, starting a
business, going through a divorce, looking for career opportunities, seeking career advice
and education, or simply someone who is setting new life goals the free worksheets and
articles at www.StartingOverNow.com will help you get to a destination faster while also
balancing other life priorities, family and relationships.
In this easy-to-read and informative book, twenty-five critical suggestions and tactics are laid
out when you have lost everything and need to create a new life, including:
· * Finding a mentor in an offbeat place.
· * Surround Yourself with People Whose Strengths are Your
Weaknesses and Give Away the Glory
· * Creating a simple but eye-catching portfolio
· * It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who knows You
· * Offering practical solutions to problems of finding and obtaining the
right new position
· * Producing a business card which serves as a resume at a glance.
· * Begin with a “Success Sketch” and Hang It Where You Will See It
Everyday
· * It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It and What You Don’t Say
· * On the Interview Ask More Questions Than They Ask You and Tell a
Story
· * Offer Solutions to Problems – Name the Company’s Pain
· * Dressing for the job above the one you want
Ms. Gannon tells you which rules to break and how to apply non-traditional methods to
achieve your desired goal.
STARTING OVER: 25 Rules When You’ve Bottomed Out is an essential guide for anyone who
needs to start their career over again and for those just beginning. The indispensable
information provided will give you vital guidance on how to reinvent your professional self and
access the ladder of success in these difficult times. It is available in bookstores and with
online booksellers.
FROM WELFARE TO CEO
TURNAROUND EXPERT AUTHORS BOOK on STARTING OVER
PITTSBURGH, PA – Executive Coach and personal turnaround and leadership expert Mary
Lee Gannon is living proof that anyone can turn his or her life around quickly with simple
focused strategies. Her book “Starting Over – 25 Rules When You’ve Bottomed Out,”
published by New Horizon Press offers specific hands-on strategies that helped her develop
leadership skills, make ultimate use of her time, uncover hidden career opportunities, be a
problem solver, be more persuasive all while keeping a healthy life balance. This is not just
theory – it holds practical steps that took her from welfare to CEO. Listen to an interview with
Mary Lee on her Web site www.StartingOverNow.com. The book can be found in local
bookstores as well as on Amazon.com and other online bookstores.
At the age of 35 Mary Lee was a stay-at-home mother with four children under seven-years-old
living in an unpalatable marriage behind the facade of a country club life. She filed for divorce
as a leap of faith and a few months later she realized an overwhelming avalanche of litigation
and anger that resulted in her and the children going from Fox Chapel, one of the most lovely
residential suburbs of Pittsburgh, to being homeless, carless, hungry and on welfare. She
understood then that she was going to be the one to provide for her and her four children and
had to figure out a way to do that. She only had a two-year degree in an allied health
profession. Public assistance was not the way she wanted to live her life. She had done the
big cry and a lot of asking, “Why me?” but that got her nothing but more paralyzed with fear.
Mary Lee decided to wipe “guilt” and “worry” out of the way with new behaviors. She shed the
habits of “blame” and “complain” like they were yesterday’s newspaper. Then she pro-actively
defined her transferable skills, developed her sphere of influence, trained in new skills she
had determined would pay off quickly and within a few short years rose to become a president
and CEO of a large hospital foundation.
“At this point in my career I feel a need to give back,” said Mary Lee who presents on
productivity and personal turnarounds to businesses, the community, and employment
development organizations. “I am very blessed to have achieved the success that I have but I
know that it came as no accident. I want to help others meet their dreams by using the
shortcuts that I used to work smart, build networks, acquire new skills and develop
transferable skills.”
Unemployment rates are higher than they have been in decades and many people are
suffering because they don’t know how to find work or where to begin. Whether you are an
empty nester who is re-entering the workforce, an entrepreneur who is looking for a way to
network, someone who has been recently laid-off, a person seeking their first job, starting a
business, going through a divorce, looking for career opportunities, seeking career advice
and education, or simply someone who is setting new life goals the free worksheets and
articles at www.StartingOverNow.com will help you get to a destination faster while also
balancing other life priorities, family and relationships.
In this easy-to-read and informative book, twenty-five critical suggestions and tactics are laid
out when you have lost everything and need to create a new life, including:
· * Finding a mentor in an offbeat place.
· * Surround Yourself with People Whose Strengths are Your
Weaknesses and Give Away the Glory
· * Creating a simple but eye-catching portfolio
· * It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who knows You
· * Offering practical solutions to problems of finding and obtaining the
right new position
· * Producing a business card which serves as a resume at a glance.
· * Begin with a “Success Sketch” and Hang It Where You Will See It
Everyday
· * It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It and What You Don’t Say
· * On the Interview Ask More Questions Than They Ask You and Tell a
Story
· * Offer Solutions to Problems – Name the Company’s Pain
· * Dressing for the job above the one you want
Ms. Gannon tells you which rules to break and how to apply non-traditional methods to
achieve your desired goal.
STARTING OVER: 25 Rules When You’ve Bottomed Out is an essential guide for anyone who
needs to start their career over again and for those just beginning. The indispensable
information provided will give you vital guidance on how to reinvent your professional self and
access the ladder of success in these difficult times. It is available in bookstores and with
online booksellers.
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| Mary Lee Gannon is interviewed on Mind Your BIZness |
Listen to Mary
Lee's interview
"From Welfare
to CEO" on the
Renee Bobb
Show on
BlogTalk
Radio.com.
Lee's interview
"From Welfare
to CEO" on the
Renee Bobb
Show on
BlogTalk
Radio.com.
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Transforming people and organizations with a goals-to-results strategy
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Leadership - Productivity - Vision
Mary Lee Gannon's
Book "Starting Over"
Amazon.com. 5 Stars!
Book "Starting Over"
Amazon.com. 5 Stars!
Mary Lee Gannon is awarded the 2012
"Woman of Integrity" award by Pittsburgh
Professional Women on December 1st at
Le Mont. Awardees are women of
distinction who have balanced career
and civic responsibility, who share their
success by mentoring others and
supporting their communities. Pictured
here with Michelle Wright of WTAE-TV
and Beth Caldwell of PPW.
"Woman of Integrity" award by Pittsburgh
Professional Women on December 1st at
Le Mont. Awardees are women of
distinction who have balanced career
and civic responsibility, who share their
success by mentoring others and
supporting their communities. Pictured
here with Michelle Wright of WTAE-TV
and Beth Caldwell of PPW.
| Mary Lee Gannon Is Recognized |
| Mary Lee is featured in: The Glasshammer - an online community for women executives in financial services, law and business: Keeping One Step Ahead: Proactive Career Management Intuit - on small business success: Four Spring Cleaning Ideas for Small Businesses |
| Mary Lee Gannon, CAE From welfare to 16 years as CEO of organizations with up to $26 million in assets. |