Optimize for Victory: A Simple Approach to Overcome Challenges and Achieve Your Dreams

by Lisa Kardos

Engineers are in the business of optimizing systems, making them more reliable, efficient, and profitable. Lisa Kardos, Ph.D. is a Real Life Engineer. In Optimize for Victory, she shares how anyone can relate very simple engineering principles and practices to life, yielding success and happiness. She felt inspired to write this book after many people tried to discourage her from pursuing her own dreams over the years.

In Optimize for Victory, you will learn how to:

Optimize yourself – how to view yourself as a system to engineer

Reframe the issues in your life to more easily overcome them

Redirect your energy to the important things in your life

Build a framework for your personal success and victory

Set and achieve goals easily using a process-oriented approach

Overcome discouragement and daily challenges to maximize your success

Advance your career and your life



Given Lisa’s pursuit of her dreams — whether academic, corporate, or personal — she delivers an insightful and intelligent approach while sensitively considering the dynamics and complexities of life and emotion.

As a keynote speaker, a university instructor, and a former senior manager in the chemical industry, she has helped many individuals achieve victory in their lives.

Would you like to know more? Download it now and start optimizing yourself!

78 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 27, 2015

About the author

Dr. Lisa Kardos earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). A keynote speaker on the university level, Dr. Kardos enjoys helping college students and young professionals overcome challenges and achieve their dreams. An earlier role of advising undergraduates as the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Chemical Engineering (NJIT), in addition to her years of experience helping students as an Adjunct Professor, inspired her to write her first book, Optimize for Victory. An Amazon bestseller, her book ranked #15 in Women and Business upon its release.

In addition to her academic experience and achievements, Dr. Kardos advanced her career in the chemical industry. She started as an entry-level Process Engineer (Infineum; a joint-venture of Exxonmobil and Shell) and eventually became a Sr. Technical Manager (Anderol Specialty Lubricants, a Division of Chemtura Corporation), where she managed three departments and mentored colleagues of various experience levels.

Since the publication of her first book, she has released two additional titles: Optimize Your Productivity and Success Blueprint. She also launched an online school in October 2015 to help professionals advance their lives and careers: the Lisa Kardos School of Excellence featuring her signature program, the Design Your Success Academy (http://learn.lisakardos.com).

When Dr. Kardos is not writing, speaking, or working with clients to optimize their success, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children.

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