Laura Zarrow with Elena Botelho on "The CEO Next Door"

Elena Botelho, Co-author of "The CEO Next Door" and Partner in leadership advisory firm ghSMART, talks with Laura Zarrow about how you can tap into your unique strengths, and grow into being a more successful and impactful leader, regardless of where you started.Elena L. Botelho is co-author of "The CEO Next Door", founder and co-leader of the CEO Genome Project, and a partner at leadership advisory firm ghSMART. Elena’s passion is helping CEOs who aspire to elite levels of performance and social impact achieve their full potential. CEOs engage Elena to accelerate their success and protect them from painful setbacks. The CEO Genome Project is an extensive research and client practice that provides guidance to CEOs and executives on the path to becoming CEO, including behaviors that lead to the top, typical setbacks CEOs encounter and ways to prevent them. Elena is a member of McKinsey M&A Integration Council—an invitation only forum of senior executives from major corporations to share M&A best practices. Prior to joining ghSMART, Elena was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where she advised CEOs and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies and major private equity players on the issues of M&A, business strategy, organizational change, and operations. Her clients included major corporations in media, technology, and financial services. Elena grew up in Moscow and Azerbaijan and now lives with her family in Washington D.C. She holds an MBA from Wharton.Aired on February 28, 2018.