Lessons Learned Upside the Head: From Boardroom to Bedroom - Career to Cancer and Beyond Carol Ann Cole Nonfiction: Autobiography, Business, Cancer 180 pages, includes photographs $18.95 6 x 9 paperback ISBN-10 1-895900-79-4 ISBN-13 978-1-895900-79-8 Order this book from: Nimbus Publishing (or 1-800-Nimbus9) or Amazon or Chapters or Pottersfield Press mail order.

Lessons Learned Upside the Head is a book with the potential to help you make positive changes in your life and the lives you touch each day - if you are willing to listen to your heart and are open to change. Carol Ann Cole draws on her life's experiences laced with examples of how the simplest tasks in life can bring you the most happiness and success. Having learned to communicate, celebrate, lighten up, share, care, and dare to go it alone, Carol Ann will guide you as you revisit your own personal skills.

The author writes compellingly about her work and personal life as she takes you through lessons learned from her small-town upbringing in Wilmot, Nova Scotia, to the boardrooms of Bell Canada during her heady executive days. Less than two years following her own experience with cancer, Carol Ann walked away from her executive career and boldly walked through the doorways that cancer blew wide open. In telling her story from the heart, she serves up the opportunity for the reader to take a fresh look at one's own life. Carol Ann refocused her energies on what is really important: family, friends and finding a way to contribute while leading a more meaningful life. Her story includes leaving home at eighteen to make her mark in a man's world and her life as a single parent after marriage, motherhood and divorce, all in her early twenties. This book follows her climbing (and sometimes stumbling on) the slippery corporate ladder, battling breast cancer while watching it take her mother's life at the same time and ultimately learning to become a new and better person as the result of sickness and hardship.

Carol Ann Cole is an accomplished motivational speaker, an author, a recognized business professional in corporate Canada and the founder of the Comfort Heart Initiative, which has raised over $1 million for cancer research. A member of the Order of Canada, she started out in the business world as a typist and went on to be one of the first female vice presidents at Bell Canada. In 1992, when she and her mother were both diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided there was more to life than climbing the corporate ladder. She walked away from her job at Bell and began what was to be the greatest adventure of her life.

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