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Lessons Learned Upside the Head is a book with the potential to help you make positive
changes in your life and the lives you touch each day - if you are
willing to listen to your heart and are open to change. Carol Ann Cole
draws on her life's experiences laced with examples of how the simplest
tasks in life can bring you the most happiness and success. Having
learned to communicate, celebrate, lighten up, share, care, and dare to
go it alone, Carol Ann will guide you as you revisit your own personal
skills.
The author writes compellingly about
her work and personal life as she takes you through lessons learned
from her small-town upbringing in Wilmot, Nova Scotia, to the
boardrooms of Bell Canada during her heady executive days. Less than
two years following her own experience with cancer, Carol Ann walked
away from her executive career and boldly walked through the doorways
that cancer blew wide open. In telling her story from the heart, she
serves up the opportunity for the reader to take a fresh look at one's
own life. Carol Ann refocused her energies on what is really important:
family, friends and finding a way to contribute while leading a more
meaningful life. Her story includes leaving home at eighteen to make
her mark in a man's world and her life as a single parent after
marriage, motherhood and divorce, all in her early twenties. This book
follows her climbing (and sometimes stumbling on) the slippery
corporate ladder, battling breast cancer while watching it take her
mother's life at the same time and ultimately learning to become a new
and better person as the result of sickness and hardship.
Carol Ann Cole is an accomplished
motivational speaker, an author, a recognized business professional in
corporate Canada and the founder of the Comfort Heart Initiative, which
has raised over $1 million for cancer research. A member of the Order
of Canada, she started out in the business world as a typist and went
on to be one of the first female vice presidents at Bell Canada. In
1992, when she and her mother were both diagnosed with breast cancer,
she decided there was more to life than climbing the corporate ladder.
She walked away from her job at Bell and began what was to be the
greatest adventure of her life.
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