Uncommon Candor — Building Leadership & Velocity in Organizations

Scheduled for publication in 2010

One of the most uncommon practices in business today is honest, effective conversation. How can a candor-based company accelerate results and deepen relationships throughout your organization?

“The truth will set your company free. This game-changing book gives you the tools and the techniques to make it happen.” — Nancy K. Eberhardt

In this compelling book, successful leaders from a diverse range of companies and disciplines reveal how open conversation has made a positive and enduring difference for their organizations.

Throughout their careers as consultants for leaders of businesses, nonprofits and educational institutions, authors Nancy K. Eberhardt and Jeannie Shaughnessy Hodges, have discovered how fostering an atmosphere of candor in your company can translate into success.

Nancy K. Eberhardt

Nancy K. Eberhardt, CEO/Owner, Pathwise Partners

Nancy is an executive coach and leadership development consultant, assisting senior executives and boards of directors achieve breakthrough results. As a regional bank president, Nancy was responsible for 50 locations, hundreds of employees, a number of successful mergers and more than $1 billion in customer relationships. Before being named president, she led the bank’s consumer products marketing division for more than a decade as senior vice president.

Nancy has served as chair of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, vice-chair of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and a governor-appointed board member of the Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority. Currently, she is on the board of directors for Congressional Bank and the University of Virginia’s School for Professional & Continuing Studies.

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Jeannie Shaughnessy Hodges

Jeannie Shaughnessy Hodges, CEO/Owner, Fortunach Consulting

Jeannie has more than 20 years of management and consulting experience as a trained executive coach and a certified facilitator with a focus on business operations, organizational development, change management and communications. As the executive director of the Carl M. Freeman Foundation, she helped transform the 50 year old grant making organization into a public charity, the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation.

Jeannie serves on the Alexandria Commission for the Arts and is a regular volunteer at The Kennedy Center. She is a graduate of Leadership Fairfax, Inc., The FBI Citizens’ Academy and the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Program. Before serving these Foundations she was the President and co-owner of Pathwise Partners, LLC. She is married and has two young daughters.

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