Each time we achieve success, we also envision and hunger for a potential that we never knew existed. It’s amazing, it’s exciting, it’s energizing; it’s wonderful. But it’s also anxiety-provoking, identity-shaking, and exhausting; it’s hell. Based on a two decade career in executive search interviewing thousands of the most successful people in the world, Laura Gassner Otting explains why success doesn’t bring happiness, and how to take advantage of the “wonderhell” that it presents instead.

Laura Gassner Otting has spent 25 years studying leaders and stewarding them through massive moments of career and life shift. Her career began as a political appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House. She later rose to the ranks of Vice President at a world class executive search firm, but left that role to help build ExecSearches.com, when it was just a burgeoning start up. Compelled to return to her roots in executive search, she founded, ran, and then successfully sold her own international executive search firm. She now spends her time connecting the dots of all that she has learned as a bestselling author and and in-demand keynote speaker.

Her last book “Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life” was a Washington Post bestseller and was named by Robin Roberts as one of Good Morning America’s Favorite Books of the Year. She is a regular contributor to The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, and Harvard Business Review.