
Leslie Ungar
A communication expert, Leslie Ungar ignites clients and audiences to believe in the singular conviction that they are their own best solution. As president of Electric Impulse Communications, Inc., she helps individuals and corporations supercharge their leadership performance. She has her Masters in Communication and Rhetoric and is the author of two books, 100 Tips in 100 Days and Herbie's Hints.
Leslie Ungar hosts a monthly radio show called Forum 360. This show and her work within the corporate world provide access to executives and how they think. Her articles can be seen in the Florida based magazine Affluent, all the way to CEO Magazine in South Africa. She is often interviewed and quoted frequently in regional and national media. Leslie always has an opinion on current events in the pop culture, business, sports, and political worlds because she sees all issues through the lens of communication.
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Posts by Leslie Ungar:
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Is The Philosophy Of Sales The Same Wherever You Go?
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All Relationships Take Two To Develop: One Person Can’t Do It Alone
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What Is An Ugly Win And Why We Want Them
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Do You Know When to Follow and When to Lead? It Took LeBron 13,322 Days to Learn
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Whether You Are A Dog Person Or Not, This Blog Is For You
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Everyone Has The Ability To Redefine Their Job And Their Potential
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The Difference A Day Does Not Make: LeBron’s Decision To Come Home
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Who Leaves Their Own Party Early And Other Details That Make A Difference
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What If We All Came with Our Own BEWARE Sign?
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Podcast: 7 Ways Women Get In Their Own Way Of Their Inner Diva
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How Johnny Manziel Empowered Himself – And You Can Too
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Storytelling 101: Tell The Right Story And Tell It Well
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Pick One And Only One: Talent Or Chemistry
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Everyone Can Be Their Own Fireman-Put Out The Flames Of Communication Or Fan Them
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Sports: We Can Learn As Much About What NOT To Do As What To Do
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When Does An Apology Mean Something?
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My Gift To You: The Gift Of Clarity For 2014
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There Is No Crying In Coaching: Why And When We Need To Suck It Up
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Energy is Your Air: Like Water is to a Boat
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Mentorship Is Like Wizardry: Find Your Glinda
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Let Your Inner Brilliance Out-How To Be Your Best You
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Second Place Is A Myth: It Rarely Catapults You To First Place
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What The Incoming Class Of 2017 Can Teach Us Before They Take A Class
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Who Is Mark Brooks And What Does He Have To Do With Your Success
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Carlos Danger Report Directly To Stupid Prison: 5 Things We Can Learn From The Sexting X-Congressman
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4 Lessons We Can Learn From Paula Deen: The Queen Of Butter
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We All Have Handicaps: What I Learned From The One Armed Handyman
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Summer Is A Season Not A Dress Code
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Goodyear: The Rubber First Met the Road in Akron Ohio
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5 Lessons We Can Learn From Erica Lafferty
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Coach Your Own Team – The New Golden Rule Of Business & Life

The dilapidated sidewalks of the old city of Puerto Vallarta talked to me every day. Every day I would walk the two miles along the beachfront Malacan, the home of time share and tequila vendors alike. Truly those sidewalks [...]

The owner of the kind of expensive restaurant navigated the dining room as though it was the school cafeteria. It was like an adult version of the high school cafeteria with the cool kids at one table, the rich kids [...]

In sports they call them ugly wins. But in sports a win is still a win. There is no asterisk by an ugly win. It counts just like any other win. Whether the team came from 30 points behind or almost lost a big lead, it [...]

Cleveland waited 13,322 days. For 13,322 days fans held their breath. Four years adds up to 13,322 days of losing, and not being a part of the sports world. The Q, the building where the Cavaliers play, waited 13,322 [...]

You probably have seen or heard about the Michael Vick Dogs. Remember that horrible chapter in life and the NFL when Vick went to prison for dog fighting. Best Friends Animal Sanctuary came to the forefront for many [...]

I stepped off the plane at the Dallas, Ft. Worth airport on my way to Tucson. Unless you have your own private plane, there are no direct flights to Tucson, the land of the brown and flat. I was not even out of the gate [...]

NE Ohio, especially the Cleveland-Akron area, held their collective breath for ten days while the King-LeBron James-made his free agency decision. And then on July 11 millions of people let out that collective sigh of [...]

Recently I attended a reception thrown by one individual. The length of the event was 90 minutes. At the 60 minute mark the host left for a dinner reservation. I was shocked. I stood there with my mouth wide open as [...]

The sign outside the pasture read: CAUTION. I BITE!!! DO NOT TOUCH! While the horse looked friendly enough, I believed the sign. As I looked at the sign, then the horse, then the sign, a thought struck me. Sometimes [...]

Listen Here: Leslie Ungar from Electric Impulse Communications, and author of 100 tips in 100 Days-How to Communicate your Competitive Edge, is here to reveal the 7 ways women get in their own way of their inner diva [...]

Johnny Manziel, the 22nd pick in this year’s draft, went where no college player has gone before. Not in 78 years. The NFL draft started in 1936. Let’s do the Math. Well, math is not really my thing so let’s do [...]

Every culture has valued storytelling since the beginning of time. Look at Hollywood. Hollywood is a billion dollar a year industry. What does Hollywood do best? Hollywood and Bollywood movies tell stories. A blockbuster [...]

OJ Simpson had his Dream Team of attorneys, researchers, and experts. This Dream Team got him off of a crime he all but committed on national TV. Wouldn’t we all like to have our own Dream Team whether it was a professional [...]

It’s not easy being a fireman. You have to be able to carry 60 pounds of equipment and a hose that weighs 200 pounds when at its water capacity. Then there are all of those steps that you have to be able to go up and [...]

Sports “guys” have written about the lessons sports can teach business and the world. They have written books, become well paid speakers, and evolved into respected talking heads experts like Stephen A. Smith. John [...]

Apology speeches are best when they actually include an apology. An apology needs to be an acknowledgment expressing regret or asking pardon for a fault or offense. An apology means something when the audience decides [...]

I wish for you the gift of clarity for 2014 and beyond. When we have clarity as to an answer or a direction we want to go, it is like it is heaven-sent. There are no good definitions for this word, clarity. It is not [...]

The COACHING class, Principles of Coaching, at The University of Akron has garnered interest around the sports world. ESPN wrote about it this summer as news of former Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel teaching a class on [...]

ENERGY is our AIR. We rarely talk about energy and we rarely talk about air. Not the “oh it’s polluted” kind of air. Just air. Yet it is necessary to our existence and present in our life every day. We can’t [...]

My favorite definition of a wizard is a person with a power or effect that appears magical by its capacity to transform. That is what you need to look for in your wizard, your mentor: the ability to help you transform. Having [...]

Keith Dambrot, says it this way, “The worst thing you can do is make a gifted player over-think.” As Men’s Basketball Coach at The University of Akron and the first person to discover LeBron James on the [...]

Second best is not even close to the Brass Ring. Vice Presidents rarely become president, and back-up quarterbacks rarely rise to permanent status as starting QB. Did you ever think about why? What are the skills of [...]

College graduations must have hired a better PR firm than the one college convocations hired. Every spring we hear a lot about college graduations. We hear about the multitude of commencement speakers past to present [...]

You may think you have little in common with Mark Brooks. You probably don’t even know who he is. He has something in common with someone you know, or work with or are related to in some way. Mark Brooks became a professional [...]

As long as there are politicians there will be political fodder. As long as there are human beings there will be examples of people falling and failing and flailing. Former Congressman Anthony Weiner certainly fell in [...]

Say the name Paula Deen and even the McDonald’s tried and true, those that consider cold pizza a gourmet meal, know enough about her to say “the butter lady”. She was a media mogul. She had an empire that consisted [...]

We all have handicaps – some are more visible than others. I walked into an office building at 6pm. The first thing I noticed was that there was a guy doing construction at the entrance. The second thing I noticed [...]

As Dr. Phil says, no matter how thin you make a pancake, it still has two sides. The good news/bad news of this pancake is that men have now joined women in dressing dilemmas and dressing faux pas. Women in the workplace [...]

I grew up in Akron, Ohio . . . When I was in elementary school we were actually taught that when the question was where are you from? The answer was Akron, Oh – Rubber Capital of the World. And then we were not. When [...]

A year ago most of us had never heard of Erica Lafferty. Safe to say no one outside of her circle of family and friends in Newtown, Connecticut had heard of her. Even six months ago we had never heard of Erica or Newtown. [...]

You may think you have little in common with a college men’s basketball coach. You have more in common than you would think at first glance. There are three and only three things you control in your career and in [...]