Breakthrough Networking: Building Relationships That Last (third Edition)

Building social capital - your network of knob turners - is your key to increasing sales and career success. Lillian Bjorseth logically and easily guides you through how to network strategically, the number one way to build relationships. She shares what to do before you work an event, how to work it and how to follow up. Plus, she shares her vast, valuable knowledge of the DISC behavioral assessment tool and impression management to give you the added touches that make her work unique in the industry.

Lillian Bjorseth experienced the power of networking in what was once the world's largest corporation - AT&T - as well as in the trenches of her own companies. She thrived in both and shares her knowledge as an articulate, enthusiastic, inspiring and passionate speaker, trainer, coach and author.

The Chicago Tribunecalls her a "networking expert," and the Association Forum of Chicagoland calls her "the business networking authority." She's co-founder of the highly successful Great Chicago Networking Extravaganza, the eighth of which is being held in 2009. She was among the first in the world to become an Inscape Publishing certified DiSC® trainer.

Lillian is a prolific author. Other works include,52 Ways to Break the Ice & Target Your Market, and the Nothing Happens Until We Communicate CD and workbook series. She's a contributing author to Masters of Networking and a co-presenter of the Marketing Boot CampDVD and workbook.

She's a top graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Her Fortune 100 experience includes 11 years at AT&T where she coached top executives in communication and media relations skills.

She's a member of the National Speakers Association and the Illinois chapter, a founding member of the Relationship Networking Industry Association, chair of the Naperville Chamber of Commerce Speakers Bureau and an instructor in North Central College's community development department.

Lillian was named one of the Great Women of the 21st Century, an Influential Woman in Business and is listed in more than a dozen Who's Who.