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Inspiring stories and success secrets from business leader and entrepreneur Amy Hilliard
Pivot for Success tells business leader and entrepreneur Amy Hilliard’s stories of success, struggle, and sustainability to inspire you to become resilient. Hilliard offers her hard-won perspective on what it takes to "make it" in American business and in life. She talks about the tough stuff, the stuff that most people who rise to her level of accomplishment aren't eager for others to know. Few women, and few women of color, have created multi-million-dollar brands in senior corporate positions, legendary entrepreneurial environments, and start-ups. Hilliard’s fearless honesty in revealing her experience can help you find your way forward, even if you face obstacles in today's business environment.
While Hilliard is a Harvard Business School graduate, Pivot for Success contains lessons not taught in school. Her perspective on success and the failure it often takes to succeed are invaluable. In this book, you will learn the 10 Pivot Points that have led Hilliard to where she is today, including Purpose, Passion, Perseverance, Positivity, Priorities, and more.
The 10 Pivot Points you'll learn in Pivot for Success have been tried and tested, and even endorsed by Michelle Obama. In this book, Hilliard shares her impactful life lessons. No matter who you are or where you are in your life’s journey, you’ll need to gain vision, shift your energy, and make moves in order to get where you’re going. Through Pivot for Success, you’ll find that you can succeed, even when you think you've lost it all.
As the owner of three businesses, Amy Hilliard knows what it takes to hustle and get there. In Pivot for Success, she shows you how.
Amy S. Hilliard is the owner of three businesses: The Hilliard Group, Sugarless Sweetness, LLC, and The ComfortCake Company. As principal of The Hilliard Group, a strategic marketing consulting firm since 1995, her Fortune 500 clients have included Nielsen, Pandora Jewelry, IBM, BET, American Express, HBO, The Art Institute of Chicago, and PepsiCo among others. In 2001, Hilliard founded The ComfortCake Company®. The company commercialized Ms. Hilliard's own recipes for a variety of pound cakes, and now licenses the intellectual property and spun off Sugarless Sweetness®, a patent-pending proprietary sugar substitute into a separate company. Hilliard was formerly Ms. Hilliard the president of Fashion Fair Cosmetics, the global legacy prestige cosmetics company for women of color, and as SVP of marketing for L'Oréal's Soft Sheen division, her team launched two multi-million dollar brands in one year.
Introduction xiii
Part I Hone Your Vision 1
Pivot Point #1 Finding Your Purpose 3
Pivot Point #2 Believing in Possibilities 17
Pivot Point #3 Defining Your Priorities 33
Pivot Point #4 Envisioning Prosperity 49
Part II Shift Your Energy 67
Pivot Point #5 Getting Prepared 69
Pivot Point #6 Having Patience 85
Pivot Point #7 Seeking Positivity 99
Part III Make Your Move 113
Pivot Point #8 Honoring Your Passion 115
Pivot Point #9 Maintaining Perseverance 129
Pivot Point #10 Managing Perceptions 145
Epilogue: Pivot for Success 159
Acknowledgments 167
About the Author 171
Index 173
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