About the Author
Peter Lichtenthal
Peter Lichtenthal is a My Next Season Advisor, not-for-profit board director, leadership and marketing consultant, and university guest-lecturer. He spent nearly 30 years as an innovative senior executive at The Estée Lauder Companies, highlighted by his roles as International General Manager of the company’s flagship Estée Lauder Brand, Global General Manager of M∙A∙C, and as Global Brand President of the Bobbi Brown, Smashbox, and Bumble and bumble cosmetics and haircare brands.
Passionate about supporting his community and the arts, Peter currently serves as Vice Chair of Point Foundation Board of Directors and Co-Chair of the foundation’s Selections Committee, and he is a Board Member of Second Stage Theater in his native New York City.
Personal aha moments during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Funny how 'six feet apart’ can feel both so close . . . and yet so far??
Despite not being physically together, people find incredibly clever and inventive ways to connect, catch up, and even celebrate occasions in order to create moments of joy with one another.
How is it possible to so often say “Where did the day go?,” when the day started out with nothing to do??
My dishwasher has never gotten so much use!
I’ll never take simple daily pleasures for granted again.
Meals at home together. What a cool, new idea!
Along with our extraordinary doctors, nurses and first responders, the unsung heroes we should never forget are those everyday people who have been stocking the shelves, delivering our food, manning the cash registers, filling our prescriptions, repairing our cars, and in countless other ways both big and small, keeping our daily lives going . . . beyond expectations.