Design Your Life
Former Ikea Executive Shares Her Tools for Personal Success
Description
Don't spend your whole life searching for the right job; make it the most important job to design the right life.
Pernille Spiers-Lopez left Denmark for the United States as a young, naïve entrepreneur. Years later, she became CEO of IKEA North America and then Global HR manager for 130,000 employees. But she soon learned—staring at the roof of the ambulance that was rushing her to the ER—that the job had a price.
So this is success. I am away from my family, my children, and my life. This can’t really be success...
In Design Your Life, follow Pernille on her journey of personal struggle and triumph. Be with her as she climbs out of her own self-denial and darkest day. Watch her summon the focus and strength within to carve out a life by design and discover a more balanced paradigm of living, one in which success is defined not by how much money we make but by our personal leadership and commitment to ourselves and others.
Pages288
Released2014
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBeyond Words
ISBN9781582705439
SellerSimon & Schuster
About the author(s)
Pernille Spiers-Lopez is an author, mentor, international corporate and nonprofit leader and the cofounder of Good Life Designed. She was an international business leader with IKEA for 21 years with a unique focus on developing both people and business. Among several top executive positions, Pernille was president for IKEA North America, global chief HR officer, and was a member of the executive management team of the IKEA Group for ten years. Pernille decided in 2011 that her season at IKEA was over and without a plan B, she took a year off to learn to “do nothing” and take the time to figure out what was next. Today, Pernille is on the board of directors of Meijer Corporation, Michigan, Northgate Gonzalez, California, IKANO Retail, Singapore, Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles, Register Her, Los Angeles. She loves writing, mentoring, and coaching leaders and growing Good Life Designed with her daughter, Sine Maria.
