Thought Leadership
NALSC Leadership
In 1984, Wendeen Eolis brought the attorney search industry together. She invited recruiters from around the country to a party at her home. Her announced purpose was to form an association for legal search consultants. She identified two goals; a Code of Ethics and an annual educational conference for its members.
She garnered the necessary support and led the National Association of Legal Search Consultants (NALSC), as the first President of the Association and Chairman of its Board of Directors--for the purposes she intended. In the first year of the NALSC, Wendeen achieved ratification of a Code of Ethics and completed the first annual educational conference, with 50 attendees gathered at her Company's townhouse headquarters.
Today, employers applaud the Association for its Ethics Code and the NALSC enjoys sponsorships from law firms, legal media companies, and others at its annual educational conferences. To its great credit, NALSC's 40th anniversary conference in 2024 saw hundreds of attendees.
EOLIS Institute for Leadership
Wendeen's early experiences in leadership in the recruiting industry introduced her to the business of educational programs and the inherent need to motivate attendance with compelling content. Her stewardship of NALSC's Inaugural Conference put her center stage as a speaker, and seminar leader. In the late 90s, she established herself as a keynote and motivational speaker for Bar Associations, law schools, universities, and even cruise ships. In 2006
Wendeen opened EOLIS Institute for Leadership to provide career transition advice. The Institute encourages attendees to set their sights on playing bigger. With her experience in business, politics, and poker tables, Wendeen offers a unique perspective on negotiation and decision strategies.Wendeen and her collaborators offer one-on-one coaching, small workshops, seminars, and master classes designed to elevate negotiating strategies, decision-making, relationship management, and career business plans.
Writings Matter
Wendeen has also written extensively - on legal marketplace issues, negotiating strategies for employment interviews, white papers, and expert witness reports for law firms. She has also written articles on the impact of federal online gaming laws on poker commerce. Her favorite topic is " Verbal People Reading," no matter the venue. Her unlocked "Bible of People Reading Secrets" reveals much about the fortune that can be accrued from being an active observer of when and how people use words and silence to convey where they stand.
Master 12 Point People Reading System
Public Speaker
Her seminars for Bar Associations, law firms, university programs, and boards of directors (among others), link principles of poker to the four negotiating strategies that are critical to master to be uber successful.
In 2022, Wendeen joined the invitation-only "Forbes Business Council” and has since served on Forbes' "expert panels," which publish unedited advice offered by panelists. She has recently returned to a book project on verbal people-reading techniques and analyses of negotiating tactics in business meetings and boardrooms.
Print and Broadcast Journalism
A journalist with decades of writing experience for business, legal, and poker publications, Wendeen has written hundreds of articles on legal/business affairs and gaming/poker matters, for a wide range of print and online publications. The New York Law Journal, Women in Business, and PokerPlayerNewspaper (1975-2015) are notable among them.
Wendeen translates her trademark as a change agent in several different areas; the legal profession, the C-Suite, courtrooms, boardrooms, local politics, international government affairs, and card rooms into speaking engagements and writing gigs that teach and entertain audiences with plenty of "aha" moments.
Wendeen's experience in business, the legal profession, politics, government, and card rooms is intertwined in her humorous analysis of heart-wrenching and hair-raising vignettes. Count on her to take responsibility for her blunders and failings and offer laudatory explanations of others' triumphs.
Wendeen's negotiating prowess is exemplified in her multi-faceted career successes in business, politics, and poker.
Wendeen obtained a degree in philosophy, abandoned a PhD in organizational psychology, earned certification as a professional coach, and has no fear of baptism by fire. She relies on verbal people-reading skills to ease the way!