Leo Bottary

Leo Bottary is the founder and managing partner of Peernovation, LLC. Leo takes what the highest-performing CEO forums have been doing so brilliantly for decades to help members maximize the value of their group experience and apply these principles and practices to the teams in their organizations. He is an award-winning author of three books, along with a second edition of Peernovation: Forged by CEO Forums. Perfected for Teams, which was released in 2025. Leo is also a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, opinion columnist and external advisory board member for CEOWORLD magazine, and an adjunct professor for Rutgers University.

Books by Leo Bottary:
Peernovation: (Second Edition) Forged by CEO Forums. Perfected for Teams. Peernovation: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About Building High-Performing Teams. What Anyone Can Do: How Surrounding Yourself with the Right People Will Drive Change, Opportunity, and Personal Growth. The Power of Peers: How the Company You Keep Drives Leadership, Growth, and Success.

Leo Bottary is a member of the External Advisory Board (EAB) and Executive Council at the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn, for more information, visit the author’s website CLICK HERE.

Executive Roundtable

Embarking on something new for your company is an aspirational exercise. You imagine that if you proactively adopt a new method or approach to your work, it will improve, if not transform, the way you do business. You discover something fresh and become enamored with the idea of operating differently...

CEO Insider

Paying Attention to Different Things and How We See Things Differently

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Whether you’re debating politics at a backyard barbecue, engaging in a workplace dispute, or negotiating a ceasefire in the Middle East, successful resolutions will never be realized unless we begin these dialogues at a foundational level. We have to start where it begins instead of assuming our foundational view is...

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Use AI to Personalize, Not Sanitize Your Communication

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I’m a huge fan of Grammarly. I appreciate the company's research on corporate communication, conducted in collaboration with Harris, and believe it’s been a positive addition to our writing toolbox. I run most of my articles through Grammarly's gauntlet to grow as a communicator who aspires to write more succinctly...

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Playing with Words. Delving into Systems

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In recent months, my daughter introduced me to The New York Times game Connections. The Times describes it as a word game that challenges players to find themes between words. Players are given 16 words and see groups of four items that share something in common. For example: FISH: Bass,...

Executive Roundtable

Behaviors, Norms, and Culture

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In a recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article, How Constructive Dissent Can Unlock Your Team’s Innovation, Timothy R. Clark, Alistair Aitchison, and Paul Terry wrote, “If a pattern of shared behavior is a norm, a collection of norms is a culture. Norms are the primary building blocks of culture.” The...

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Stealing the Stage and Being Given the Stage

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I’m sure most of us have been in conversations when a friend called us amid a challenge or all-out crisis. We hear the angst and urgency in their voice. We ask clarifying questions, and to demonstrate empathy, we engage our friend by sharing our own story. We feel the need...

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What’s Your Second Edition?

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Over the past three weeks, I have spent countless hours finishing the manuscript for the second edition of Peernovation: Forged by CEO Forums. Perfected for Teams. Going into this project, I believed writing a second edition of an existing book would be easier than crafting a new one from scratch....

Executive Opinions

Ted Lasso Inspired Three Words for 2025

Leo BottaryExecutive Opinions

2025 will be my fourth year of restarting a practice introduced by Chris Brogan over a decade ago. Brogan, Chief of Staff to the CEO of Appfire, began a practice in 2006 that I’ve always admired. It’s called My Three Words. Chris describes it this way: “The My Three Words idea is simple. Choose...

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Preparation and What’s at Stake for CEOs

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A few weeks ago, I enjoyed a lengthy conversation with one of my favorite fellow speakers, Gair Maxwell. Gair is a former Vistage and TEC Canada Speaker of the Year and author of Big Little Legends: How Everyday Leaders Build Irresistible Brands. We had not spoken in a while, yet...

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CEOs, Politics, and Religion

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I delivered a three-hour workshop to a CEO Peer Advisory Group recently, where one of the members talked about the difficulty (putting it mildly) of having a civil conversation with someone who stands on the opposite side of one’s political views. He described how emotion instantly hijacks such an encounter....

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