more connected, Lou says data is the next
everything they are supposed to become.
times, many ways,” he says, “If you love what
frontier in the communications business.
Lou sums up success as “do what I want.”
you do, you never work a day in your life.”
On a personal level, Lou Altman’s goal is
He says success is doing what you want
to impact people’s lives in a meaningful
with whom you want where you want,
way, whether one at a time, or en masse.
when you want. He advices the younger
He wants to inspire people and help them
transform their lives through understand-
generation to put down their phones and
engage with people for real.
ing who they are and what their purpose is.
Over 80% of communication is non-ver-
He is now in transition working to become
bal thus the need to talk to people face
a corporate trainer and professional public
to face. He also tells the young to figure
speaker to inspire others in their worlds.
out what they are good at and find a way
He wants people to commit to becoming
Lou Altman is a committed family man.
He is married to Amy Altman. He says he
likes it that he and his wife support each
other in their individual endeavors.
Listening to him talk about his wife is quite
to get paid to do it. ‘It has been said many
obvious he is still madly in love with her
as he was thirteen and a half years ago
when they got married.
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