comfortable with the approaches in Leadership Rigor, you
open yourself up to skills in everyday practice.”
While Erica has enjoyed immense success for her earlier pursuits,
she isn’t shy about acknowledging weak points along her journey.
For one, despite heading multi-million dollar teams, she found
it a challenge to be a young leader. Her skills once exceeded
her emotional intelligence, resulting in instances where she was
possibly too direct, blazing her trail with collateral damage. Ms.
Peitler understands what she did right and wrong, and isn’t afraid
to own it. Early leadership training and development is something
she would like to see more of with recent college graduates. Ms.
Peitler acknowledges that nature and nurture are two dynamics
at play in leadership. Some leaders naturally have aptitudes in
communication and building relationships, which they could be
either conscious or unconscious about. However, if those natural
talents are not supplemented over time to nurture those skills,
those leaders will fall behind in th