Erica Peitler’s career has spanned from two decades of success in the pharmaceutical industry,
to penning two books, to her current role as a Certified Leadership Coach. She is a pharmacist
by education and training. After graduating from UCONN, she immediately forged a career in
the healthcare industry and specializing as a leader in sales and marketing for a $400 Million
pharmaceutical division. Erica defines success as, “…interactive, engagement, and impact.”
By the age of 41, Erica made a name for herself by being the
Peitler became a certified leadership coach and wrote her first
youngest female in her industry to steer a $2 Billion leader-
book, Open up and Say “Aaah.” In this book, Erica strives to
ship team. She didn’t get there by being a passive participant.
share her insights about transition, where you are, what changes
Rather, Erica has been interested in leadership since childhood
to make, and making the roadmap clearer. She helps people
and enjoyed watching different leadership practices and styles.
create an organizational agenda for higher performance levels
As a woman, Ms. Peitler chose not to focus on the male/female
and productivity.
dynamic in the workplace and never acknowledged the glass
ceiling, so she felt she didn’t have to break through it.
Ms. Peitler spent the last eight years as a leadership coach and
has worked with over 25 CEOs of medium and large businesses.
After attaining such a high level of success with her work in the
What drives her every day is that she gets to walk through a door
pharmaceutical industry, Erica chose to take a year off. During
and experience a situation that isn’t predicted or defined. Erica
that time, she went on a learning journey and took classes. It
appreciates that her work is in real-time and that every conver-
was then she realized that leadership was her passion. Ms.
sation is an opportunity to influence the lives of others.
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