Leslie Chertok

coaching          training facilitation     trauma-informed consulting​

mindful antidotes to stress

The emphasis in her therapeutic, organizational, and entrepreneurial work focuses on the integration of mindfulness into day-to-day life as a concrete path to transformational change. Her expertise in trauma recovery and mindfulness informs her work a coach, consultant, and training facilitator in navigating the current climate of toxic stress that plagues many work and home environments.

About Leslie

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.

 

offerings

Coaching

Identify and overcome core obstacles to realizing your full personal and professional potential.

Training facilitation

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.

trauma-informed consulting

Being trauma-informed is a way of relating, not a set of rules. 

Client Comments

...from the moment we started, my session was different than I expected. Leslie noticed what I was doing, all kinds of non-verbal stuff. She followed her curiosity and asked me gentle, open-ended wondering questions in ways that generated curiosity in me too! She took me past my usual story of 'How It Is' into brand new territory. I had the most amazing, AHA moment.
Susan Gillespie, Ph.D. Portland, Oregon
I also really appreciated how you embody mindfulness and that came across in all of your responses throughout the day. Loved it! It gave me the tools to set my world back to right again. Gave me tools to use with my ladies at the prison. It's so simple and yet so powerful! Thank you for doing this work.
Vicki L. Johnson
I appreciate Leslie's intuition and mastery of coaching skills - the combo in her presences is awesome.
Sarah Carr (Leadership & Development Coach)

Email Leslie@lesliechertok.com

call (253) 370-3637