Lance Secretan

Lance Secretan

Lance Secretan is globally renowned as a leadership guru, working with top executives and companies around the world. But when his soulmate Tricia passed away it broke his heart. Everyone was awed by Lance and Tricia’s happiness together—their deep and obvious love lit up any room they entered. People frequently asked them to share their secrets, and, in fact, Tricia and Lance had penned an outline of such a book together. Besides advising, coaching and teaching leaders, Lance is, at heart, a writer. Somehow, he felt, the world needed to hear from behind the scenes about their remarkable union—and so, A Love Story: An Intensely Personal Memoir was born.

Over the 30 glorious years of their partnership Lance had written many poems for Tricia. Being best known for his leadership expertise and as an advisor to leaders, not as a poet, he was hesitant about sharing this private part of his life as well as jumping into a genre that was completely different from the area of expertise for which he is best known. When he asked a friend to review his early writings and poetry, he was sufficiently buoyed by the encouragement he received to write a book describing the arc of Tricia’s and his enduring romance.  A Love Story: An Intensely Personal Memoir will be released early December 2015.

Lance Secretan holds an M.A. (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He is an executive coach to leaders globally and works intensely with organizations and their leadership teams to transform their culture into the most inspirational in their industries. Individuals, entire organizations, cities and states have experienced remarkable transformations through his unique mentoring, coaching, wisdom and approach.

He has helped 6 companies to be named to Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For in America list, and 8 others are also his clients, and 30 Secretan Center clients are on Fortune’s Most Admired Companies list. He is ranked 16th in the world by Leadership Gurus, and Speakers in America ranks him among the Top Five Leadership speakers. His firm, The Secretan Center, Inc., is ranked #1 in the world as an international Leadership Consulting firm by Leadership Excellence. He is the 1999 recipient of the International Caring Award from the Caring Institute. Lance is an expert skier, kayaker, mountain biker, and avid trail hiker. He divides his time between homes in Ontario and Colorado.