Erica Peitler’s career spans over two decades of success in the pharmaceutical industry, to
writing two books, to her current role as a Leadership Performance Coach. She is a pharmacist
by education and training. After graduating from UCONN, she immediately forged a career in
the healthcare industry specializing in marketing and working on iconic brands such as Advil®,
TUMS ®, ALEVE ® and Bayer Aspirin®. Erica defines success as, “…meaningful, engaging, and
impactful.”
By the age of 38, Erica had become one of the youngest women
consider what her next big adventure would be. During that
on a Divisional global leadership team in her industry. She
time, she went on an exciting personal learning journey taking
didn’t get there by being a passive participant. Rather, Erica
classes, practicing yoga and journaling intensely. It was then that
has been interested in leadership since childhood and enjoyed
she confirmed that leadership was her true passion. Ms. Peitler
watching the different leadership practices and styles she was
became a certified leadership coach and wrote her first book, Open
surrounded by as she developed her own unique leadership
up and Say aaah! In this book, Erica shares her insights about
voice and style. As a young executive, Ms. Peitler chose not to
transitions outlining how to figure out where you are, consider-
focus on the male/female dynamic in the workplace and never
ing what changes you might choose to make, and making the
acknowledged the existence of a glass ceiling, so she felt she
roadmap clear for what is next and how to get there.
didn’t have to break through it.
Ms. Peitler is the founder and CEO of her own Leadership Consulting
After attaining a high level of success with her work in the
firm where for the last eight years she has worked with over 25
pharmaceutical industry, Erica chose to take a year off and
CEOs and hundreds of executives of both small-to-medium
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