Thomas Lee

Current

Blogger at MindingGaps.com
Speaker / Consultant at Arceil Leadership Ltd.
Founder / President at Arceil Leadership Ltd.

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Past

Various roles at Amoco Corporation
Political Editor at The Daily Herald (Chicago)

Education

University of Chicago
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recommended

26 people have recommended Thomas

Connections

395 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

Minding Gaps blog

Thomas Lee’s Summary

Do you need fully engaged people for top-line growth?

Do you need breakthrough change that sticks like Velcro?

Do you need leadership coaching or training?

Do you need expert, hands-on communication advice and support to roll out a key initiative?

THOMAS J. LEE is an authority on leadership credibility for engagement, change, and high performance. He draws on an extraordinary command of best practices from benchmarking nearly 30 major corporations, and he has taught leadership to thousands of managers in some of America's best businesses.

A dynamic speaker with international experience, THOMAS J. LEE has spoken at professional conferences and corporate venues throughout the United States, across Canada, and in Europe, South America, and Africa. From London to Buenos Aires, from Warsaw to San Francisco, from Johannesburg to Calgary, he offers an affirming message of vision, empowerment, and opportunity.

In small groups or private coaching, Tom can help you and your managers become energetic, inspiring leaders. His high-energy workshops hold everyone's focus. He can show you how to bolster your all-important credibility. In one of his powerful keynotes, he can rev up your management team for new challenges. He can identify and push aside the barriers to change. He can build employee engagement, and he can show you how to roll out an initiative with legs that run.

THOMAS J. LEE offers a complimentary consultation by telephone. Contact him today (at tom@arceil.com or 847-247-2241), and follow him on Twitter as @MindingGaps and on his blog at http://rainbows.typepad.com.

(Truth in Marketing: It is absolutely not true that Tom can leap tall buildings in a single bound. But he doesn't weaken before the Kryptonite of conventional wisdom, either.)

Thomas Lee’s Specialties:

++ Consulting and facilitation on engagement.
++ Training in leadership development.
++ Advice on organizational communication.
++ Keynote speaking and speaker training.
++ Analysis of barriers to workforce engagement.
++ Planning and facilitation of seminars, workshops, and offsite strategy sessions.

Thomas Lee’s Experience

Blogger

MindingGaps.com

(Writing and Editing industry)

2004 — Present (5 years )
Speaker / Consultant

Arceil Leadership Ltd.

(Management Consulting industry)

1997 — Present (12 years )

Our blue-chip clientele features the No 1 or No. 2 company in a diverse range of industries: pharmaceuticals, machinery, insurance, brewing, farm equipment, food service, defense, and energy.

More than 95 percent of participants in our high-impact workshops in leadership communication recommend the experience for their peers.

Our consulting services include refinement and expression of strategy; cultural assessments; strategic communication planning; benchmarking facilitation; team-based problem root-cause and solution analysis; roles and responsibilities in communication; and individual leadership counseling and communication training.

We have popular, accessible models (Rainbow and GearBox) for leadership that illustrate the powerful impact of broadly integrated, strategic communication on workforce engagement, and we have in-depth knowledge of best practices in leadership communication for engagement and change.
Founder / President

Arceil Leadership Ltd.

(Management Consulting industry)

1997 — Present (12 years )
Various roles

Amoco Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)

1990 — 1997 (7 years )

Worked directly with CEO and board chairman on the articulation of corporate change strategy. Developed and documented the fundamental argument for Amoco’s companywide “renewal” effort, grounded in long-range analysis of trends in industry and consumer marketplace.

Developed and produced the CEO's key speeches, all-employee announcements, sensitive correspondence, and management presentations on business strategy, workplace safety, employee diversity, TQM, cultural change, empowerment, executive reassignments, corporate restructurings, workforce reductions, and more.

Initiated best-practice benchmarking in corporate communication that challenged traditional assumptions about communication and introduced an alternative, broadly integrated approach embraced by senior line management.
Political Editor

The Daily Herald (Chicago)

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

1982 — 1988 (6 years )

Interviewed four U.S. presidents, almost all presidential candidates in 1984 and 1988, as well as numerous members of the U.S. Congress and the Illinois legislature. Wrote daily news articles on deadline, lengthy Sunday features, and a weekly column of opinion for the editorial page.

Thomas Lee’s Education

University of Chicago

M.A. , Harris Graduate School of Public Policy , 1988 — 1990

Pertinent advanced coursework in business and government leadership, survey-research data analysis, organizational dynamics, economic analysis, statistical profiling and modeling, regression analysis, game theory, finance, demographic analysis* and policy analysis.

*Seminar taught by 1993 Nobel laureate in economics.

Mentor to University of Chicago graduate students since 1999.
University of Wisconsin-Madison

B.A. , Journalism

Activities and Societies:

Correspondent, The Milwaukee Journal

Additional Information

Thomas Lee’s Websites:

Minding Gaps blog

Thomas Lee’s Interests:

business leadership and communication public speaking politics and public policy alpine hiking and mountain climbing adventure travel food and wine bicycling and physical fitness

Thomas Lee’s Groups:

National Speakers Association (NSA)
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
International Association of Business Communicators
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Mentor to graduate students at The University of Chicago

Executive Suite
Worldwide Management Consultants (23,000+ members)
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
University of Chicago Alumni
Wisconsin Alumni Association
ASTD National
Employee Communications and Engagement
SpeakerMatch
Corporate Communications Executive Network
The Harris School for Public Policy Studies
Human Resources Professionals: THE "Unofficial" forum for SHRM Members
Creative Communication & Innovation Network of Innovators
Leader to Leader Institute
Motivational Keynote PEG (Professional Emphasis Group) of the National Speakers Association (NSA)
Need A Speaker / Be A Speaker
Rainbow Leadership Community
Business Coaching 2.0
African Association of Communication Directors
Professional Bloggers