Les Landes

Les Landes is President of Landes & Associates. The firm provides services in the areas of planning, team development, marketing, public relations, organizational communications and performance improvement systems. Prior to starting his own firm, Les worked with Pet Incorporated where he served for 10 years as the head of Corporate Communications. Prior to Pet, he worked at Maritz, Inc., the nation's largest provider of business communications and performance incentives, and he taught at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the author of numerous published articles on communication and organizational performance, and he writes a popular e-column called Inside Out on aligning marketing communication with employee engagement. He also has written the business fable, “Getting to the Heart of Employee Engagement: The Power and Purpose of Imagination and Free Will in the Workplace.”