Pattie Sellers
Co-CEO, SellersEaston Media, and Chair, Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit
A master storyteller and interviewer, Pattie Sellers expertly explains how the most successful leaders use power, purpose, and personal storytelling to build successful careers and legacies.
Under $25,000
Pattie Sellers is an esteemed journalist, senior partner at Fortune, and co-founder of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, renowned for her incisive interviews and profiles of some of the world's most influential leaders in business, politics, and society. With a career spanning over three decades, Sellers has cultivated a deep understanding of leadership, innovation, and the dynamics of power and influence, particularly as they pertain to women in leadership roles.
In her thought-provoking presentations, Sellers draws upon her extensive experience and the wisdom gleaned from conversations with top leaders to explore the evolving landscape of leadership and the unique challenges and opportunities facing women in power. She delves into the qualities that define successful leaders, the importance of resilience and authenticity, and the impact of gender diversity on organizational success.
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Survivors and Thrivers: A Special WSB Series
In this custom-designed presentation for WSB clients, Pattie Sellers and veteran award-winning journalist Nina Easton share stories of prominent leaders who have successfully navigated crises, from 9/11 to the 2008 financial meltdown to the COVID-19 pandemic, and describe the lessons they learned in finding courage, making tough decisions, building teams, and creating resilient organizations. These are timeless and valuable lessons for any company or organization. And the stories are real—from Sellers' and Easton's extraordinary access to Fortune 500 CEOs and prominent political leaders during the past three decades.
Beyond the Corporate Ladder: New Career Paradigms
The most successful people think of their careers as jungle gyms, where rewards come from moving in several directions—not just up. This sounds scary, but in a fast-changing and unpredictable world, it’s not only smart but essential to think beyond the career ladder. With expertise on careers that comes from interviewing the world’s most prominent leaders, Pattie Sellers explains how peripheral vision, broad mindset, and flexibility are keys to success. Opportunity knocks? Swing!
Experienced Moderator
“Pattie is a terrific interviewer and she always gets it right.” - Warren Buffett. Whether she is interviewing a leader or moderating a panel, Pattie Sellers brings to any live or virtual event a superb mix of preparedness, expertise, sharp intellect, and gentle style that is essential to bringing out the best in interviewees. And as an emcee, Sellers engages audiences with warmth, humor, and the kind of agility that is key to making a show flow with ease.
On Women and Leadership
Having spent the past 30 years studying women leaders—and overseeing the expansion of Fortune Most Powerful Women—Pattie Sellers has gained unparalleled access to the world’s top women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, and beyond. Her views about how they succeed—and fail—are fresh and provocative. (Women leaders tend to think about power horizontally—which sometimes steers them away from the C-suite.) Sellers shares lessons in leadership and career-building and also exclusive stories about getting to know Melinda Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Barbara Streisand, and many female Fortune 500 CEOs.
What other organizations say about Pattie Sellers
Thank you for bringing Pattie Sellers to ABA's Women's Leadership Forum last week. The feedback on her presentation to the group is some of the best I have ever heard. Her tone and style were so comfortable and the content about her observations on women and leadership was very well received. I would not hesitate to recommend Pattie as a keynote speaker. She certainly did an excellent job and was the highlight of the program.
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