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I participate in this site whenever I can - in fact, I find it kind of addictive. I get so excited to see people here reaching out. But it's hard for me to keep up with personal messages on this site, try as I might. If you have a question, I hope you'll direct it to the Ask Keith Forum, where I'll check in regularly and chose the best or most helpful questions and answer them on my blog or in a forum. Thank you!

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How do you spend your day? (aka what's your job?): Broadening and deepening the relationships in my life, often in the context of my work as CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight.
www.ferrazzigreenlight.com
www.keithferrazzi.com
www.twitter.com/keithferrazzi

What's your hometown?: Latrobe, PA

Favorite activities?: dinner with friends, a good bottle of wine, polo, workouts at Barry's Boot Camp

Spirituality?: Spiritual. Agape is my faith community in Los Angeles.

What's your long-term goal? If you don't know yet, that's OK!: Touching as many people as I can with the idea that relationships are the both the lock and the key of a successful, joyful life.

Achieving our long-term goals involves a lot of baby steps. What goal are you working toward right now?: As the number of people that has been touched by Never Eat Alone has grown, I've been searching for creative new ways to to connect with my readers -- I'm hoping this site will be a big one!

Are there ways not listed that you would like KF Community members to reach out and help you?: by helping each other!

If you had to put your personal philosophy on a bumper sticker, what would it be?: Your Success and Joy Powered by Relationships

If you have an official bio, post it here.: Keith Ferrazzi grew up in Pittsburgh, his father a steelworker, his mother a cleaning lady. His father worked double shifts to provide for his family while sending Keith to the very best schools – first, to the elite Kiski Prep school on scholarship, and ultimately to Yale undergrad and Harvard Business School.

Thanks to his remarkable ability to connect with others, by his 30s Keith had developed a network of relationships that stretched from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s “40 Under 40” and selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Davos World Economic Forum.

After serving as Chief Marketing Officer for Deloitte and Starwood Hotels, he published his best-selling book Never Eat Alone in 2005, which went on to sell a quarter of a million copies and counting. He founded his own consulting firm Ferrazzi Greenlight, which leads the industry in strategic relationship management, bringing a fresh, conscious, and holistic perspective to success in the corporate world. He currently has over seventy speaking engagements a year in the U.S. and internationally, and is a frequent contributor to CNBC and CNN.

Both Forbes and Inc. magazines have designated Keith Ferrazzi as one of the world's most "connected" individuals. He distinguishes relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handing usually associated with networking. His outreach and advocacy is firmly grounded in the principles of generosity and accountability, and he encourages people to infuse their professional life with the same passion, personality, and honesty many tend to reserve for their personal lives.

Ferrazzi’s next book, Who's Got Your Back?, will be published in May of 2009. Who’s Got Your Back? guides readers to overcome limiting behaviors and achieve their highest potential by actively cultivating an inner circle of mutual support – people who are given permission and encouragement to kick your butt when you need it. These high-trust, intimate relationships can help both low and high achievers – including Ferrazzi himself – push themselves to incomparable success and personal reward.

Ferrazzi practices Vipassana meditation and is an avid polo player and heavy lifter. Though his travel takes him all over the world, his electricity bills are delivered to a home in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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At 5:34pm on June 3, 2009, Jason Moore said…: Congrats on NYT #1 !!!

At 8:04am on May 27, 2009, Eric Standlee said…: Just bought two books so I can get your signature when you come to Houston and give one away.

I have also featured this event on InHouston.ning.com here: http://inhouston.ning.com/events/keith-ferrazzis-new-book-event and it shows up on the front page.

I have also invited over 1200 of my closest InHoustonians to come and get the word out.

HOPE YOU HAVE ROOM.

Are you going to have time during the day that Monday? Maybe I could introduce you to some keep people?

Eric

At 5:58am on May 27, 2009, Alex Katsanos said…: Keith, great to meet you at the Grand Hyatt. You are so right saying nothing feels better than making a difference in other people's lives and to commit to really communicating with each other.
Also, thank you or someone from your staff for the bar tab that we all enjoyed at the Ambassador afterward!

As I said when I met you, I'm from an acting family that has left the corporate world in Feb '09 to be an actor like my parents. If you know of anyone that is looking for an actor for anything, please have them contact me. Like you said last night, nothing happens if you don't ask!

At 7:06am on May 26, 2009, Santiago Brand said…: Dear Mr Ferrazi,

I am looking forward to meeting you here in Orlando on Thursday.
Thank you for all the inspiration.
Santiago.

At 3:56am on May 23, 2009, Wayne Meyers said…: Dear Keith,

It was great seeing you again at the Who's Got Your Back book tour Los Angeles. As the designated driver for the O.C. Greenlighters I wanted to let you know that Orange County made it back safe and sound. I hope the remainder of the book tour goes well, I look forward to speaking with you again at the end of summer if not sooner.

Sincerely,

W.E.M.

At 8:41pm on May 22, 2009, Jimmy Davis said…: Keith,

Love your book. I am reading it now for the second time. Always finding new insight Also going to get your lastest. Looking forward to readng it. I love this community. Great insights from people and also a way to meet people from other countries.

At 3:27am on May 7, 2009, Susan Rabe said…: Keith: I met you at conference in Vegas with Avon, and you were great. I have been going through a lot with relationship issues, and I started to ready your book on the way home, and am amazed on all the things I was doing wrong in a relationship. I wanted to take this time to personal thank you for opening my eyes not only in my professional relationships but my personal relationships. I can not wait to finish the book and buy your other one. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart, Susan Rabe (ME)

At 6:10pm on April 27, 2009, Paul Benjou said…: Keith... Are you getting direct feedback from Twitter? I suspect not since you are only following 1 person and twitter does not allow DR to folks that are not following the other.

At 4:54pm on April 22, 2009, Robert Mees said…: I would like to invite you to the Sacramento Greenlight Community Meeting, being held in Sacramento on April 29th at Il Fornaio restaurant at the Wells Fargo Center in Sacramento, from 6pm to 8pm.

This is a casual affair with a no host bar and appetizers available off the bar menu. It will be the first-ever meeting of its kind in the Sacramento Region. Our region will be joining San Francisco and LA among California regions to host a Greenlight City Group.

I encourage you to attend the meeting and to join the Sacramento City Group that believes YOU CAN’T SUCCEED ALONE – and why would you want to? Sacramento's Greenlight Community is ground central for the peer-based mutual success movement launched first in Keith Ferrazzi’s Never Eat Alone, and now in Who’s Got Your Back, the breakthrough program to building deep, trusting relationships that create success, and won’t let you fail.

The cost of participating in both the online community and the live City Group meetings is the value of your time, but the payback is huge. I sincerely hope that you will join us. Go the the Greenlight Events page to RSVP at http://www.greenlightcommunity.com/events/sacramento-greenlight-city.

Time: April 29, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Il Fornaio at the Wells Fargo Center
Street: 400 Capitol Mall
City/Town: Sacramento
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps...
Contact Info: ronnieledesma@gmail.com
Event Type: meeting
Organized By: Ronnie Ledesma

At 10:10pm on April 18, 2009, Wayne Meyers said…: Hey Keith,

It was a real treat meeting you when I visited Chris Tuffli at Ferrazzi Green LIght. At the time of this wriiting I noticed that we are both online and in the chat room. I am inviting everyone currently online to chat and that includes you! If interested please join us in the chat room. I will be on for at least the next 20 minutes.

Sincerely,

W.E.M.