Optimize for Victory: A Simple Approach to Overcome Challenges and Achieve Your Dreams

Take your first step to overcoming your personal and professional challenges, and achieve your dreams.

In an engaging and conversational style, Dr. Lisa Kardos teaches you how to reframe your thinking using simple engineering principles (note: anyone can do it). This unique and simple approach is the key step to “optimize for victory” in your life and career.

Building on the framework presented in the book, Dr. Kardos tackles issues that thwart our success, such as discouraging voices, self-doubt, difficult relationships, the troubling aspects of goal-setting (including surprising research), and the challenges of staying on course to achieve our goals and dreams.

Everyday life challenges stealthily inhibit our success; Optimize for Victory provides a practical approach to overcome such challenges to achieve victory in our lives.

Dr. Lisa Kardos has experience in chemical engineering, management, higher education, public speaking, and career development.

Dr. Kardos advanced her career in the chemical industry, where she coached and mentored colleagues of various experience levels. She held roles such as Process Engineer, Manufacturing Technology Specialist, and Section Leader (Technology Deployment) at Infineum (a joint-venture of Exxonmobil and Shell), as well as Sr. Technical Manager at Anderol Specialty Lubricants, a Division of Chemtura Corporation.

In addition to her management and industry experience, Dr. Kardos earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

A previous role of advising undergraduates as the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Chemical Engineering (NJIT), in addition to her years of university teaching experience, inspired her to write her Amazon bestselling book, Optimize for Victory: A Simple Approach to Overcome Challenges and Achieve Your Dreams.

Since the publication of her book, she also launched an online school in October 2015 to help individuals advance their lives and careers: the Lisa Kardos School of Excellence (learn.lisakardos.com). Her blog is located at optimizebooks.com.