After a rewarding 40-year career leading people and programs for Fortune 100 companies (Phillips Petroleum, Motorola, Intel Corporation), the Federal Government (NOAA), and academia (the University of Houston), leadership strategist, speaker, and award-winning author Donn LeVie Jr. is enjoying retirement but continues to speak about "Weapons of Mass Persuasion" and "Rebrand, Reinvent, and Repurpose Your Fraud Expertise" at association conferences. He continues to write columns and feature articles for Fraud Magazine, an Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) publication.
In May of 2024, Donn moved with his wife Jeanette from Austin, Texas to the Blue Ridge Mountains of far northwest South Carolina.
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Leadership influence is built on underlying values
Donn's approach to leadership influence embraces three underlying and overlapping fundamentals that drive the essential core of presence-driven leaders:
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Highlight Meaning and Purpose: Apply your highest personal strengths and talents to belong to and serve a greater good, purpose, or belief.
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Encourage Participation and Involvement: Apply your greatest personal strengths, talents, and gifts with your work, family, friendships, and leisure.
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Seek Fulfillment and Enjoyment: Apply as much positive emotion and coping skills to thrive in all areas of your work and personal life.
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​True presence-driven leaders can arise in your organization when individuals have created a core of trust and empathy that will enhance performance, influence, engagement, and value.
Core of trust and empathy
LATESTS BOOKS FROM DONN
Why can some people masterfully move people to make certain choices, while others can never seem to get anyone to agree with them? How are some people able to command a room while others struggle just to get their attention? How are some people able to make things happen while others struggle to get people moving on anything?
• Is it a charisma thing?
• Or an intelligence thing?
• Or are some people just born with a knack for winning people over?
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No, no, and no. So, what is it?
It’s all about the art and alchemy of persuasion.
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Donn's latest ebook is slated for release in early 2025.
From the Underworld to the Boardroom takes the reader through the dark side of influence and persuasion: the world of manipulation and coercion. Unethical behavior abounds in both the criminal underworld and the corporate boardroom and many times we willingly participate in our own financial, emotional, and even physical ruin. Award-winning author and former executive leadership and influence strategist Donn LeVie Jr. reveals true tales in this compelling collection of fraud, corruption, counterfeiting, and other cons.
The chapters in Donn's book first appeared as feature articles in FRAUD Magazine, a publication of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
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Scan the QR code to get your free copy!
In a world where the competition is constantly trying to outsmart you, it's time to "stack the deck" in your favor. In Stacking the Deck: Career Strategies for Outsmarting the Competition, award-winning author and former Fortune 100 executive and leadership/influence strategist Donn LeVie Jr. shows the many ways individuals and organizations can get the upper hand with strategies and tactics that give them an "unfair" advantage that renders their competition irrelevant.
The chapters in Donn's book first appeared as articles in Fraud Magazine, a publication of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
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Scan the QR code to get your free copy.
