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Elena Rand, JD, LMSW, has spent over 20 years working as executive coach and leadership guru for Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 law firms throughout the world. Trained as a former NYC litigator, licensed psychotherapist, and certified executive coach Elena founded LawScope, LLC one of the first executive coaching companies to introduce executive coaching to the legal profession. She then went on to serve as the Chief Marketing Officer for Wiggin and Dana and Director of Business Development for Paul Weiss.
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Elena is a highly sought after leadership trainer, panel moderator, motivational speaker and executive coach. She has worked for such institutions as EY-Canada, Google, Guggenheim Partners, SONY, British Airways, Applied Insurance, The U.S. Department of Commerce, Columbia Law School, Fordham Law School, University of Toronto School of Law, The Princeton Club of NY, The Legal Marketing Association, The Chicago Bar Association, The City Bar of New York, PLI and The NY State Bar Association among others.

Elena graduated from Princeton University, The Georgetown University Law Center, The NYU School of Social Work and completed a fellowship at the NYU Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Elena also received certification in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Meditation from the Yale University Stress Center and is also a licensed Level II Reiki Master.

Elena was inducted into the 200th Legione D’Oro of the Accademia Tiberina di Roma, and serves as an International U.S. Delegate for the Fodazione Accademia di Tiberina Pontificale, dedicated to the promotion of Latin and Italian science and letters and to the preservation of Roman art and culture.

Elena is fluent in Italian, Sicilian, Hebrew and Spanish.

Elena is the mother of two children, step-mother to two children and now lives in the New York Hudson Valley with her husband doing what she loves the most-writing books and coaching others.

Elena can be reached at www.elenarand.com and her online Achievement Addiction: DETOX workbook, resources and virtual courses can be found at www.achievementaddiction.com.

“A clear-eyed and forcefully empathetic plan for stemming the toxicity of compulsive achievement...Readers prone to excessive perfectionism—particularly the author’s fellow C-suite over-achievers—may find her thoughts on detox life-changing.”
– Kirkus Reviews

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Achievement Addiction DETOX

BY Elena Rand

Rand presents a plan for escaping the trap of hyper-achievement.

The author, an executive coach, seemed to have it all: Rand was a wife and mother, a therapist and executive coach working with top law firms. She owned two large homes, was head of a new company, and served on the boards of several nonprofits. She even did yoga and ran regularly. Then, at age 40, while she was driving her kids to school, she felt like she was having a heart attack. This opened her eyes to her own “Achievement Addiction,” which she describes as a “kind of behavior characterized by an unchecked and autonomic compulsion to achieve, achieve, achieve at all costs.” People experiencing Achievement Addiction are perpetually engaged in what the author calls “the Chase”: “a singular delusion that chasing achievement was worth complete and utter self-annihilation”; without the Chase, “they and their lives were utterly worthless.” Rand lays out a seven-step detox plan to overcome Achievement Addiction, starting with “Awareness” and moving on through steps including “Emotions,” “Support,” and “Alignment.” The goal, she stresses, is not to eliminate all feelings of ambition or accomplishment, but rather to reach a point where self-worth no longer relies on getting the next promotion, the bigger raise, the next accolade. Rand is a punchy, energetic writer, and she liberally fills her book with bullet points and numbered questions for easy reading. The primary strength of her narrative is its consistent aura of personal experience; the author is not some idle dreamer telling busy people to stop and smell the flowers—she’s an accomplished professional who fell into the achievement trap herself. Readers prone to excessive perfectionism—particularly the author’s fellow C-suite over-achievers—may find her thoughts on detox life-changing.

A clear-eyed and forcefully empathetic plan for stemming the toxicity of compulsive achievement.

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Review Posted Online: Sept. 12, 2023

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