HOW AUTHOR AND PROTAGONIST CONVERGED
On this journey book and website author and protagonist greet you with a blended voice. Puliziotta’s Organizational Health and Fitness — Lessons Learned and Strategies for Zapping the DYSfunctional Virus, as environmental planning company owner, change management consultant, and poet. Stress and related ailments from unhealthy physical or remote work environments, lack of work life balance, pose serious public health risks. I attribute these to the DYSfunctional virus (DYS). My personal and professional life experiences prompt me to combat DYS at work with the purpose of attaining and maintaining Organizational Health and Fitness (OH&F). My protagonist Puliziotta, entered my creative sphere and mindfully re-minded me that my mission needs her. And, no question, it does. You’ll find out as I have, that you want to have Puliziotta on your team.
Puliziotta’s name is a play on words in Italian. Flip the vowels, “o” and “u” and you have poliziotta a female detective, and puliziotta a cleaning lady. Why Italian? Why not? From signature bandana to metaphorical investigative tools, cleaning equipment and applications (apps) with super powers, this cleaning lady / detective persona fits the creatively practical thrust of this book. Together we zap* DYS. Using metaphors, mindfulness, and emotional, social, and cultural intelligence – EQ, SQ, CQ, we transform our work environments.
Puliziotta embodies my personal and professional roots. As new immigrants in the U.S., my mother and I cleaned offices. Higher education and professional experience enabled me to establish my environmental and strategic planning firm in 1988. Puliziotta approaches cleaning up DYS contaminated workplaces as our company does environmental assessments and remediation projects; in phases, with a CORE team. CORE stands for Collaboration, Optimism, Resilience, and Excellence.