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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. 3 4 W O R L D C L A S S M AG A Z I N E S . C O M | JA N UA RY 2 0 1 5