Co-CEO of SellersEaston Media, Award-Winning Writer, Producer & Multimedia Journalist
Patricia Sellers Biography
Pattie Sellers is an award-winning writer, producer, and multimedia journalist. In 2016, after writing for Fortune Magazine for 32 years, Sellers and fellow senior Fortune editor Nina Easton launched SellersEaston Media to tell stories of leadership and impact. At SellersEaston, Sellers writes books, produces videos and films, and creates other premium multimedia content for CEOs, prominent families, global non-profits, and Fortune 500 companies such as Accenture, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, SAP, and Visa. Sellers and the SellersEaston team produce documentaries about prominent leaders. She is also Co-founder of JOURNEY, a nonprofit designed to accelerate the diversity and trajectory of women in leadership.
Before starting SellersEaston, Sellers was an assistant managing editor of Fortune. She wrote more than 20 Fortune cover stories and earned the trust of countless CEOs and other global leaders—such as Warren Buffett, Melinda Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, and Oprah Winfrey—to do exclusive and definitive profiles.
Sellers chaired the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit through 2020. She co-founded Most Powerful Women (MPW) in 1998 and helped build it into Fortune's largest and most valuable franchise. In 2013, Sellers won Time Inc.’s prestigious MVP (Most Valuable Performer) award for her innovative work and leadership at Fortune. A Washington Post profile of Sellers, “The Rolodex that Redefined Power,” describes her unmatched talent for interviewing and writing about successful people. Sellers is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia.
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Patricia Sellers Speaking Topics
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On Women and Leadership
Women leaders tend to think about power horizontallyand manage that way too. Having spent the past 15 years studying women leadersand building Most Powerful Women into Fortunes second-biggest brand, after the Fortune 500Pattie Sellers has gained unparalleled access to Americas top women leaders and has keen insights into what makes women successful (and not) in business, philanthropy, government and beyond. Her views are provocative and can be controversial: The concept of the glass ceiling is overplayed, she believes, and women hold themselves back by feeling uncomfortable with power. Wise women leaders embrace powerin different ways than most men do.
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A View from the Boardroom: How Great Leaders Lead
Entrepreneurs drive economic recoveryand women are key. While Sellers has spent most of her 26 years at Fortune writing about leaders of large companies, her purview is much broader. She has written definitive (and exclusive) cover stories on world-changing entrepreneurs and leaders from across the business spectrum. Sellers talks about the common traits of outstanding business-builders and also explores stories of prominent people who have discovered fresh passion to start new lives after their careers in business.
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Patricia Sellers is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as On Women and Leadership, A View from the Boardroom: How Great Leaders Lead, Beyond the Corporate Ladder: New Career Paradigms for Changing Times and Experienced Moderator. The estimated speaking fee range to book Patricia Sellers for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Patricia Sellers generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Gisel Ruiz, Amy DuBois Barnett, Sheila C. Johnson, Carla Harris and Soraya Darabi. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Patricia Sellers for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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