mindful antidotes to stress
Leslie brings three decades of experience working with individuals and teams in service of dismantling systems of oppression within and without.
Over the course of her career, she has supported thousands of individuals to identify and overcome core obstacles to realizing their full personal and professional potentials. She has worked with industry leaders from Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks as well as elected officials and educators in both private and public systems from primary through university levels.
She is the co-founder of BioPause Inc, a startup company creating a wearable device that leverages subtle heart rhythm biofeedback in service of decreasing stress and increasing wellbeing. BioPause is disrupting the status quo racial and gender bias embeded in the tech industry.
Leslie has a BA in Psychology and Child Development from New College and a MA from Naropa University where she majored in Buddhist Psychology. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a certified Big Leap Coach (The Hendricks Institute). She is a founding Restoring Resourcefulness faculty member and has served on the faculty of the Billions Institute fellowship since its inception in 2017.
Identify and overcome core obstacles to realizing your full personal and professional potential.
Leslie has worked with teams from healthcare, government, education, and non-profit sectors. She has provided anti-racist equity focused professional development trainings in mixed-race teams as well as provided white affinity work.
Being trauma-informed is a way of relating, not a set of rules.