Pivot for Success: Hone Your Vision, Shift Your Energy, Make Your Move - Hardcover

by Amy S. Hilliard (Author)

Inspiring stories and success secrets from business leader and entrepreneur Amy Hilliard

Pivot for Success tells business leader and entrepreneur Amy Hilliard's stories of success, struggle, and sustainability to inspire you to become resilient. Hilliard offers her hard-won perspective on what it takes to "make it" in American business and in life. She talks about the tough stuff, the stuff that most people who rise to her level of accomplishment aren't eager for others to know. Few women, and few women of color, have created multi-million-dollar brands in senior corporate positions, legendary entrepreneurial environments, and start-ups. Hilliard's fearless honesty in revealing her experience can help you find your way forward, even if you face obstacles in today's business environment.

While Hilliard is a Harvard Business School graduate, Pivot for Success contains lessons not taught in school. Her perspective on success and the failure it often takes to succeed are invaluable. In this book, you will learn the 10 Pivot Points that have led Hilliard to where she is today, including Purpose, Passion, Perseverance, Positivity, Priorities, and more.

The 10 Pivot Points you'll learn in Pivot for Success have been tried and tested, and even endorsed by Michelle Obama. In this book, Hilliard shares her impactful life lessons. No matter who you are or where you are in your life's journey, you'll need to gain vision, shift your energy, and make moves in order to get where you're going. Through Pivot for Success, you'll find that you can succeed, even when you think you've lost it all.

• Gain inspiration from Amy Hilliard's rise and resilience to multi-million-dollar success
• Leverage the 10 Pivot Points to best fit your goals in business and in life
• Learn to recognize when you're on the right track or bounce back if your situation calls for a change of outlook and strategy
• Build the courage to take risks, shift your perspective, and discover new opportunities

As the owner of three businesses, Amy Hilliard knows what it takes to hustle and get there. In Pivot for Success, she shows you how.

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"Making it" in business, and in life generally, is a tough objective to realize. That's especially true for women and people of color who face obstacles that are largely invisible to, or unacknowledged by, the rest of the population. Few women, and few women of color, have created multi-million dollar brands in senior corporate positions, legendary entrepreneurial environments, and start-ups.

In Pivot for Success, accomplished serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive Amy Hilliard describes how she overcame those hurdles and rose to become an inspiring leader and enduring success story. Her perspectives on success and the failure it often takes to succeed are not taught in school, but the author's academic credentials, corporate, and professional experience as the owner of three successful businesses grant her a perspective rarely seen before.

She explains the 10 Pivot Points that have led her to where she is today, including Purpose, Passion, Perseverance, Positivity, Priorities, and more.

You'll learn to recognize when you're on the right track and just need to keep trying to move forward, and when you need to change course and consider a new outlook or strategy. You'll also discover that, no matter who you are or where you are in your own journey, you'll need to find and maintain vision, energy, and adaptability to get where you want to go.

Perfect for anyone looking for inspiration to fuel their own journey through the difficult terrain that is business in America, Pivot for Success will earn a place in the libraries of business students, working professionals, those seeking career transition or advancement, and business owners alike who hope to gain perspective on what it takes to truly succeed.

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praise for PIVOT FOR SUCCESS

"Amy Hilliard brings the same passion, wisdom, and vision to everything she's done in the business world to her invaluable book, Pivot for Success. Like Amy, this book is brilliant; it is a masterclass on how you can find your calling and create a plan to succeed not just in your career, but in your entire life."
--SHERYL SANDBERG, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org

"As an alumna of Howard University, where we teach students to live by truth and service, Amy Hilliard does her Alma Mater proud. Not only has she found her life's purpose, but in Pivot for Success she is teaching others how to pursue theirs. Her diverse array of experiences in the C-suite, as an entrepreneur and within the boardroom, have endowed her with the confidence needed to fulfill her unique mission and inspire her readers to follow her lead."
--WAYNE A.I. FREDERICK, MD, MBA, Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery, 17th President of Howard University

"Amy S. Hilliard's Pivot for Success is an extraordinary gift. More than a book, it is a masterclass in finding the clarity and power within ourselves to trust our dreams and fulfill them. With surprising transparency and wondrous detail, one of our most admired corporate leaders and innovative entrepreneurs offers this treasury of lived experiences and practical tools for navigating the challenges of personal and professional growth. Here is the inspiration, determination, resilience and courage--the enthusiastic embrace of life--needed to honor our authentic self and chart our own course. Pivot for Success is the good news we need right now, the wisdom laid out in chapter and verse for turning leadership potential into leadership practice. This is a read worthy of your time. Savor it as I have, and it will linger in your heart as it does in mine."
--SUSAN L. TAYLOR, Founder and CEO, National CARES Mentoring Movement, Editor-in-Chief Emerita, Essence Magazine

"Pivot for Success by Amy S. Hilliard is a wonderful and inspiring read that will take you to the centermost part of yourself and help you identify those principles that make a successful life possible. We're talking about purpose, priorities, vision, and possibility. Well done, Amy!"
--DEBBIE ALLEN, Producer, Choreographer, Actor

Author Biography

AMY S. HILLIARD is a former corporate executive, an entrepreneur, and owner of three businesses: The Hilliard Group, Sugarless Sweetness, LLC, and the ComfortCake Company. She regularly consults for Fortune 500 clients including Nielsen, Pandora Jewelry, IBM, BET, American Express, HBO, the Art Institute of Chicago, and PepsiCo.
www.amyshilliard.com