Share the Chair: Jackie Yeaney

Life Notes from Chair 17

Be kind. Be brave. Be you. Three solid life tenets from this week's Share the Chair guest, Jackie Yeaney. Having retired from official Chief Marketing Officer duties after spending over 20 years in the C-Suite space, she joins CH this week to talk all things life journey and experience - from her beginnings in the United States Air Force, to her ascendence into executive marketing leadership, to her passion and advocacy for people and possibilities. It’s a great hour of conversation covering both work/life insights and wisdoms from an executive leader who ALSO has a knack of leading through her own life.

Show Notes

• Jackie is actively a part of the following organizations:
  • Talkspace (Non Executive Director)
  • CMO Collaborative (Co-Founder)
  • Plan International USA (Board Member)
  • Foundation Fighting Blindness (Marketing Committee)
  • Iridium (Non Executive Director)
• Jackie's LinkedIn profile is here (note: you will need a LinkedIn account to see her full profile and be able to follow her).
• Jackie and her husband, Eric, started Blind Ambition Fitness.
  • The condition Eric has is called CACD - a rare form of macular degeneration (Central Areolar Choroidal Dystrophy).
• The Maya Angelou quote Jackie consistently leans into is: "People will forget what you did. People will forget what you said. But people will never forget how you made them feel."
• More information on the discussion CH and Jackie were having regarding different leadership styles as defined by distinct colors (e.g., Red, Yellow, Blue, Green) can be found on a number of Web sites and through various organizations. You can try a Google search of "What are the 4 leadership colors" if you'd like to learn more.
• James Lipton's Inside the Actor's Studio questionnaire, and the original Bernard Pivot/Marcel Proust versions that inspired it, can be found here. Our C17 version is our own take on these two famous questionnaires.