Resilience: Navigating Life, Loss and the Road to Success

Lisson’s inspiring memoir shares her hard-won insights on surviving devastating personal loss as well as on how to succeed as a woman in the corporate world. She and her husband Patrick were savoring a charmed life with their four children when a heart attack left Patrick in a coma. She held out hope for a miracle, but nine months later after exhausting all treatment options, she was left with no choice but to honor his request that his life not be artificially sustained. Beyond her account of heartbreak and healing, this memoir is also about Lisson’s career and the combination of talent, hard work, and strategy that led to her promotion to president of FedEx Canada. Lisson had humble beginnings and started work at the bottom of the corporate ladder. What set her apart from others, she writes, was her constant determination to do better, to increase her scope of knowledge, and to watch carefully and learn from others’ mistakes. Her story of breaking through the glass ceiling will inspire other women to aim higher, strategize more carefully, and reach their full potential, too. [em]Agent: Carolyn Forde, Westwood Creative Artists (Oct.) [/em]