What Happens After You Leave the Stage?
Why speakers need a book and how the right book can extend authority, deepen connection, and create a meaningful next step for the audience.
Speaking
A great talk creates a moment. The right book makes it last.
Leslie brings practical insight, lived experience, humor, and a fierce belief that important voices deserve more than a fleeting moment of attention.
Signature directions
Conversations designed to change what people do next.
Your Story Is Your Strategy
How to move beyond random storytelling and use lived experience to clarify a message, build trust, and make expertise memorable.
The Right Book, Not Just Any Book
Why experts get stuck writing the wrong thing and how to connect the book, reader, business, and body of work before writing chapters.
AI Without Losing Your Voice
A grounded look at using AI to accelerate thinking, structure, and creation while keeping human perspective at the center.
Leslie leading an in-person workshop for General Federation of Women’s Clubs state presidents and board members.
Selected speaking & conversations
Teaching, facilitating, and helping audiences find the story worth sharing.
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
In-person workshop for state presidents and board members on using strategic storytelling to strengthen member attraction and retention. Salt Lake City, August 2025.
Show Up, Stand Up, Speak Up Summits
Recurring co-host, presenter, and contributor across multiple summits, including hosting conversations and leading a live book launch.
Milestone Moments Podcast
A conversation with co-author Sheila Slick about taking Turn Your Spoken Words Into a Publish-Ready Book from idea to publication in ten days.
Mission Accepted Podcast
A featured conversation about seven keys to writing your book.
Also: Host of the Powerful on Purpose Podcast, facilitator of the Author Lab, and featured guest on Leaders & Legacy in Style.
“People may forget the talk. A book gives them a way to keep the conversation going.”
Formats
Keynotes, workshops, podcasts, and conversations.
Topics can be adapted for entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, speakers, authors, and communities centered on women’s leadership and voice.
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