Sherry Stewart Deutschmann - Lunch with lucy : Maximize Profits by Investing in Your People

Praise for
Sherry Stewart Deutschmann
and
Lunch with Lucy

What Sherry Deutschmann has done in institutionalizing and sharing her employee-first philosophy shows that valuing workers first as people makes extraordinary business sense. By placing empathy and equal opportunity at the center of the business, you engage everyone in serving the customer. By paying a living wage and sharing profits equally, you unshackle workers from the tyranny of overtime and multiple jobs so they can focus on work and tend to their families. And by making yourself, as the leader, accessible to everyone, you gain important insight on your operations and your people. Lunch with Lucy is a refreshing must-read for leaders of companies of all sizes and levels of maturity.

BETH BROOKE-MARCINIAK, Board Director eHealth and SHEEX, Former Global Vice Chair, Public Policy, EY, and Diversity and Inclusiveness Sponsor, EY

Lunch with Lucy is a beautiful reflection of the authoran authentic leader whose empathy for those she led and for her customers helped propel her business to remarkable success. Sherrys practical insights are food for every aspiring leader and CEO looking to make a difference. Lunch with Lucy is a full buffet of wisdom.

DR. MICHAEL BURCHAM, Shore Capital Partners

I was hooked from page one. Such a compelling story told in a way that seems so not only doable, but the right thing to do. If we had more leaders like Sherry, corporations would be better people. She helps you envision a world full of compassion, understanding, and kindness. This is an underdog story that leaves you feeling inspired, uplifted, and full of admiration for the grit and determination this woman has. More of this, please!

FRAN DUNAWAY, CEO/Cofounder, TomboyX.com, Seattle, WA

I hate most books about company culturein fact, I cant even read them. We all know culture is important. But too often these books treat it as if its the ultimate goalnot the means to an endfocusing on silly perks that trivialize the conversation. But as a senior editor with Inc., Forbes, and The New York Times, Ive been following Sherry Deutschmann for years. I know shes different, both as a business owner and as an author. She actually connects the dots between treating employees well and maximizing profits. Wondering how to get employees to care about the business as if they were owners? This book is the blueprint. Its also a fun read.

LOREN FELDMAN, Chief Content Officer, 21 Hats

Wow! An inspiring, touching, funny story that helps you build a better business, strengthen your own character, and even save capitalism from itself. Sherry is a genius at solving problems, and she tells you all her secrets! This is a must-read, cant-miss, save-your-life, save-your-company book.

U.S. CONGRESSMAN JIM COOPER, Tennessees 5th Congressional District

Our obsession with maximizing profits at the expense of everything else on the planet has caused immeasurable harm. We need a new model of doing business, and with perfect timing, along comes Sherry Deutschmann with a model we can follow to maximize profits and take care of people. Read this book, follow it, and spread it widely. There is another wayand Sherry has proven it.

VICKI SAUNDERS, CEO, SheEO, Toronto, Canada

Working at LetterLogic was one of the greatest experiences in my life. Sherry showed how one person can really make life better for so many. Just imagine if more businesses operated like hers. Think of how far a living wage would go towards eradicating poverty...

PATRICK JOHNSON, President, ProGraphic South, Nashville, TN

I have known Sherry for 25+ yearsback before she started her own business and was working as a sales rep and crushing it! Sherrys fierce approach to life translated throughout her entrepreneurial journey as she grew her business, her people, and herself. In Lunch with Lucy Sherry weaves a powerful message through her storytelling. If you truly listen, it will show you a path less travelled and one that will reveal greater fulfillment for both you and your teams.

ANDY BAILEY, CEO, Founder, and Head Coach, Petra Coach

Every successful business owner Ive met, either male or female, has usually built effective teams. How well they did that was based on their treatment of their employees and executives. Deutschmanns approach of putting her people first ultimately led to a healthy bottom line, but it also invested in the companys success. This is an important book for all business owners.

MARSHA FIRESTONE, PhD. President and Founder, Women Presidents Organization and Women Presidents Educational Organization

Sherry is a shining example of a CEO who fully embodies authentic leadership. Decades ago, using her business as a vehicle for change, Sherry blazed a trail for many of us by defining a corporate culture that placed employees first. Lunch with Lucy is an inspiring story and a gift to any entrepreneur who wants to make a difference with and in their business.

PAMELA CHALOULT, CEO, Practical Feet Advisors, and Social Impact Leader

Sherrys voice, ultimately, is unapologetic. Its a voice that business owners must learn to cultivate to accelerate toward the realization of their greatest ideas and contributions to the marketplace and our world.

CARLA HARRIS, Vice Chairman, Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley

Wittingly, Sherry uses lunch as the framework through which we might transform our relationship to traditional workplace hierarchies. Perhaps, weas workaholic Americansshould start eating lunch together again?!

ESTHER MORALES, Consultant and Former Executive Director, National Womens Business Council (NWBC)

Sherry Stewart Deutschmann is the boss every employee wants to work for and every entrepreneur should want to be. Lunch With Lucy is a smart, honest, funny, touching, and inspiring story about a woman who succeeded in business because of her own deeply held valuesespecially her commitment to her people. Whether youre an experienced leader or just starting out in business, you will find many practical and inspiring lessons in Lunch With Lucy. Ive been a non-profit CEO for 30 years, and I lost count of the times I thought, Damn! I wish Id thought of that.

MARSHA BAILEY, Founder and CEO, WEV (Womens Economic Ventures)

Sherrys proven track record making the Inc. 5000 list 10 years in a row clearly demonstrates the powerful and profitable force of marrying heartdriven intention with thought-inspired action. Sherry made an immediate impact on EarthKind after I heard her story, and a lasting impact on me as a female entrepreneur whos out to change how pests are controlledand ultimately how business is done. If more business functioned this way, we may no longer see 85% of workers hating their jobs, 38 million households living in poverty, or another 96 million close behind.

KARI WARBERG BLOCK, Founder and CEO, EarthKind

I have worked with literally hundreds of highly talented executives, but I have never met anyone who understands the transformative power of a simple conversation the way Sherry does. If you spend any time at all with Sherry, you come away changedmore motivated, more hopeful, and feeling like a better version of yourself. Her generosity of spirit just glows.

MARY SOBON, Executive Coach, m2 Consulting

Sherry is one of the smartest and most caring entrepreneurs Ive ever met. She started and grew an uber-successful company, not only in size but in the impact she had on everyone who worked for her. She was a pioneer in what is known today as conscious capitalism and was playing the Infinite Game as Simon Sinek coined it in his latest book. Sherry treated everyone who worked for herand every stakeholder in her companys ecosystemas true partners and peers. She is a walking example of a servant leader, and her companys success is living proof of how treating your people like they should be treated can take a company to heights you never expected.