As a coach and corporate trainer Lee Miller’s goal is to help achieve sustainable changes in behavior that will enable individuals to become more effective at influencing and leading others. A professor of influencing and negotiating, leadership, organizational culture and human capital management, he takes a practical approach to coaching and training using the applied knowledge gained from a successful career as a C-level human resources executive and a Law Firm Partner. Lee focuses on helping individuals gain awareness of those specific behaviors that make them successful and those that reduce their effectiveness. Lee helps individuals gain awareness but also develop skills needed to lead at higher levels. In addition, Lee works with executives involving issues related to women and leadership.
Lee is a Professor of Human Capital Management at the University of Southern California and Seton Hall Business School and a Lecturer at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. He is also Senior Fellow at the Conference Board and a Board member of an Ai company bringing Ai tools to Commercial Real Estate firms. Lee has held numerous senior executive positions including serving as the Chief Human Resources Officer at TV Guide Magazine, USA Networks (now IAC) and Barney’s New York Inc., and Corporate Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations at R.H. Macy & Co. Inc. He was also a partner at two of the nation’s largest law firms. Among the books he has written are UP: Influence, Power and The U Perspective – The Art of Getting What You Want, and A Woman’s Guide To Successful Negotiating, selected by the Huffington Post as one of the “16 Books Aspiring Women Leaders Need to Be Reading” & a featured on the Early Show and Good Morning America. For many years Lee was the career columnist for the New Jersey Star Ledger. He is also the former Chair of the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters.
