Ellen Leikind discovered to play poker when she was rising up. Whereas she and her mother have been cooking dinner after faculty, they performed Texas Maintain ‘Em and Backgammon. “My mother was an terrible cook dinner, and so was I,” remembers the native New York Metropolis resident.
Years later, as a senior advertising government who labored at Pfizer and L’Oreal, Leikind perked up when she seen poker was rivaling golf as a kind of company networking. Whereas enjoying leisure poker and seen many frequent threads between the methods utilized in poker and enterprise negotiation. “I began seeing how among the issues that occurred to me on the poker desk occurred in enterprise,” she says.
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In 2006, after taking a one-year hiatus from company life, she tapped what she discovered in childhood and based PokerDivas, the place she makes use of the rules of poker to show management and negotiation expertise. The 2-person firm, which generates income within the mid-six figures, trains workforce members at corporations comparable to Attract, Chevron, Elizabeth Arden, KPMG, O, Marie Claire, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pfizer, and lots of monetary companies companies on how one can change into extra fearless of their careers
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To convey the teachings to life, Leikind holds mock tournaments, which regularly assist individuals to determine areas for skilled development. “The extra incessantly and aggressively you are betting, the extra comfy you might be with risk-taking,” she says.
Leikind teaches is that to perform enterprise objectives, you’ll want to “have the endurance to attend for the best palms, learn different individuals and never be afraid of shedding your cash,” she says.
The applications initially focused ladies however now are co-ed, in response to demand. She has discovered that incessantly, ladies are extra affected person and higher at studying individuals, and males are extra aggressive with their chips and extra comfy with danger, although there are various exceptions. “You want all 4 of these issues to be good in enterprise as you do in poker,” she says.
Leikind can also be the writer of PokerWoman: The best way to Win at Love, Life, and Enterprise utilizing the Ideas of Poker. She additionally runs a web-based poker membership, a course referred to as “The best way to Negotiate for Your self,” and a unbroken authorized training program referred to as “The best way to Be A Higher Negotiator Utilizing Poker Technique.” As a speaker, she covers subjects comparable to taking management of your picture on the convention desk, bringing the inclusivity of the poker desk to company tradition and dealing with a bully within the board room.
She holds an MBA in advertising from Fordham College and a certificates from Cornell College in Range and Inclusion.
Though Leikind coaches company staff, she finds the teachings from poker are simply as related for the self-employed. “They’re all about confidence in danger,” she says. “Are you enjoying to win or to keep away from shedding?”