Salvatore Tagliareni is a story teller, writer, business consultant, art dealer, and former Catholic priest. For over 25 years he has successfully engaged private and public companies in their search for outstanding performance. A gifted speaker, he is blessed with a great sense of humor and can invigorate an audience with insights on life and leadership. Salvatore was profoundly influenced by his relationship with Dr.Viktor Frankl, the celebrated psychiatrist and author of Man’s Search for Meaning. The desire to humanize the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust was the driving force behind Hitler’s Priest and The Cross or the Swastika
Salvatore is the former president of Next Step Associates, an organizational consulting firm. For twenty five years he performed strategic planning and Organizational design and implementation for many large International companies such as Johnson and Johnson, I.B.M., Hoffman La-Roche and Boston Financial.
As a young Catholic priest studying theology in Rome, his life was forever changed when the tragic and unexpected death of his best friend led him to seek and gain mentorship from Dr. Frankl. Dr. Frankl and other Holocaust survivors changed the course of Salvatore’s life as they shared their personal horrors under the Nazi regime.
After leaving active ministry as an ordained Catholic priest in 1970, Salvatore went on to earn a PhD in Leadership and Organizational Behavior and had a successful career as an international business consultant. Salvatore lives in Washington, DC with his wife of 40 years and returns to Europe as often as possible.
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