About Building Better Leaders

Building Better Leaders was built with a few guiding principles in mind:

  • To provide content-rich, real-world educational opportunities for professionals who want to take their careers to the next level.
  • To offer personalized mentoring to program participants to help them realize their professional goals without personal or professional bias.
  • To promote life-long learning and foster the value of leadership in organizations of any size.
  • To overcome the limitations of traditional training models by offering a sustained learning and development experience.

The Building Better Leaders team is here to assist you in meeting your professional career goals. If you have a comment about one of the programs, suggestions for new programs, or have interest in becoming a Building Better Leaders program leader, please drop us a note via e-mail or call at 847.612.8420.

About Art Petty, Founder:

Art Petty is a Chicago-area resident that married his high-school sweetheart and has two college-age sons. He is a life-long learner with degrees from Illinois and DePaul and a number of certificates as a member of Kellogg’s Executive Scholars program at Northwestern University. He is also an adjunct Professor in Management at DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business (and recognizes the irony of now being a professor in a place where he was once a student!).

Art has more than two decades working in marketing, sales, strategy and general management in some of the world’s largest and smallest tech organizations, and has devoted the last few years to supporting the development of great professionals and great businesses through training and consulting.

Practical Lessons in Leadership

He is the co-author of a 2007 book with Rich Petro, Practical Lessons in Leadership-A Guidebook for Aspiring and Experienced Leaders.

Art also authors the Alltop-listed blog, Management Excellence at www.artpetty.com. He consults with clients on business performance, sales and marketing  and leadership and talent development and is available for speaking opportunities.

A message from Art:

I’ve been blessed to find and support so many great people and great teams and now clients, and I truly look forward to contributing to your success. If you would like to talk with or contact someone or several people that have worked around, with and for me, please let me know and I will be happy to arrange something that meets your needs. I am serious about my professional mission: to serve as  a values-focused, integrity-driven, action-oriented executive and a relentless developer of great people and great teams, and I look forward to helping you meet your professional goals. -Art Petty

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