I will be speaking at the Chicago ENG/Executive Networking Group meeting on Thursday, May 12. I have spoken to this group many times and it is a favorite venue for me. (See www.engchgo.org for meeting details). ENG is the premier senior executive networking group in the country. I hope to see you there if you can attend.

I will be arriving Wednesday afternoon and will have several hours available for individual coaching sessions (staying at the O'Hare Hilton). On Friday morning May 13, I will conduct an advanced session on writing breakthrough letters and advanced interviewing techniques (attending the Thursday ENG meeting or another of my seminars is a prerequisite as the advanced session builds on the basic strategy taught the day before).

At the advanced session, I will have portfolios of my most powerful breakthrough letters written over the years we will use in class (not to be copied or leave the room) that have delivered C-level positions from mailings to CEOs, private equity managing directors, and executive search consultants. We will concentrate on letter-writing techniques designed to bypass gatekeepers and cause the decision-makers to act in your favor. (Expensive and time-consuming mailings make very little sense when your letters are intercepted/rejected by gatekeepers). In the interviewing portion of the advanced session, we will examine and rehearse answers to the toughest/trickiest questions asked by executive search consultants and others.

(The answer to the "What are your income expectations?" question is worth many times the advanced session tuition, by itself).

Please call me to discuss an individual meeting or the advanced session if you are interested.