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Leading-edge organizations have discovered that fun, both as a value in the corporate culture and as a set of behaviors in daily practice, can translate into bottom line success. By harnessing the power of fun, companies find they can better retain employees and customers, motivate teams, improve productivity, increase innovation, and create a sense of community.

Fun Works details precisely how eleven successful companies - including Southwest Airlines, Pike Place Fish, Isle of Capri Casinos, Employease, and Prudential - have integrated fun into the normal course of business, and shows how this has translated into improved results across the board. Drawing on these success stories, Fun Works illustrates the eleven principles of the Fun/Work FusionTM. From capitalizing on the spontaneous to hiring good people and getting out of their way, these principles will inspire you to inject a sense of playfulness and joy into your workday.

Disposing of the myth that fun and work are mutually exclusive, Fun Works will motivate you to unleash the power of fun in your workplace. Fun Works shares real-life examples, strategies, ideas, resources, tools, tips, and techniques that will help any company in any industry become a place where people love to work.

Self-Proclaimed Sherpa Guide

LESLIE IS A PARADOX. She was born an old soul who, while in her early mid-life, maintains a perpetual state of Peter Pan - gotta fight, gotta fly, gotta crow. She is a fountain of ideas but concerned with the smallest detail. Her comfort for risk taking is extreme yet, regarding her role in life and her concern for others, she is overly responsible. She relishes rituals and symbolism, yet cannot resist a spontaneous adventure.

Leslie values leadership, loyalty, and trust in relationships.

Some of her role models include: Mother Theresa, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Viktor Frankl, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph Campbell, and Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers.

Leslie's measure of her success as a business leader and consultant is that she applies to herself first all the consulting principles in which she engages her clients. In her work as an organizational development/change management consultant, her goal is not to be positioned as an expert but rather as a trusted advisor.

She is a voracious learner and places high value on her own journey of discovery.

Leslie earned her Master of Science in Organizational Development at Case Western Reserve University after graduating cum laude from Wittenberg University with a Bachelor of Arts. She founded Catalyst Consulting Group, Inc. in 1987. Her philosophy is simple: People are basically good, well-intentioned, courageous, and able to learn. Her job is to provide a framework in which people can draw on their own inner resources to find creative solutions.

Like children, Leslie's work is now play.

Leslie lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. When she plays she likes to play in Australia and Europe. Her list of favorite play includes fly-fishing, scuba diving, cattle drives, community theater, swimming with dolphins, and time spent with family and friends.

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