Book Club
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John Kotter
Come join us for an interactive and fun discussion on the best kept secret book, Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John Kotter with the discussion facilitated by Adriano Pianesi. We will discuss the "unfair attack strategies naysayers, nitpickers, and handwringers deploy with great success time and time again" and how to overcome them!
There will be role playing! Armed with Kotter's strategies, participants will have the chance to step into the "hot" seat to defend their brilliant ideas against those naysayers. Will it be you?
Please read the book ahead of time and be prepared for an lively and engaging discussion - this one may get a little rowdy!
About Adriano
Adriano Pianesi has 22 years of leadership development, executive coaching, and change management experience built on capacity development, possibility thinking, and sound strategy. Before founding ParticipAction Consulting, Adriano spent 15 years working as a manager in four different countries, using the four languages he speaks for Procter and Gamble, Kraft-General Food, and William Grant & Sons.
Change, adaptation, and personal transformation are central to Adriano’s lived experience and foundational to his approach as an executive coach and change consultant.
Adriano earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Milan, Italy, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Rome, Italy, and the University of Santander, Spain. He holds an associate coaching certification (ACC). After working for 20 years in corporate America, he discovered he could leverage his business expertise and personal transformation experience to help leaders re-imagine and redesign themselves and their organizations. Adriano’s work is built on values like human dignity, choice, responsibility, authenticity, openness, learning, diversity, and inclusion.
He dives deep with clients, exploring areas that might have been previously hidden. Power, conflict, and emotions are discussed head-on. An enthusiastic professional committed to learning and personal growth, Adriano is passionate about helping clients turn ideas into action and manage transition and change.
In addition to his work as an executive coach for the past six years, Adriano is an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and teaches a certificate program in nonprofit executive leadership at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. Adriano has published extensively on leadership, design thinking, and adaptive change. He is a TEDx Speaker who speaks fluent Spanish, Italian, and French.
Date: Monday, October 28
Time: 6 - 9 pm; Networking will begin at 6 pm and the discussion will begin promptly at 6:30 pm
Location: Caboose Commons, 2918 Eskridge Rd., Fairfax VA 22301
Sunset Room, 3rd floor (please note this is NOT wheelchair accessible, no elevator)
Light appetizers will be served; beverages are available for purchase
Fee: $10 Members
$20 Non-members
Please note: The system will automatically cancel your registration if you do not submit payment within 15 minutes of registering.
