Dear Curious Leader (and Leader-to-Be):

“You may be able to walk on water, Leigh, but your staff needs to take the bridge,” a management consultant observed in 1986. As president of a small public relations agency in Boston, Leigh was an inspiration to her employees and the backbone of the business she worked 24/7 to build. However, her own playing field was not level. Leigh’s leadership didn’t produce tangible results, her style wasn’t effective with developing staff, and her emotional intelligence left room for improvement.

In April 1987, Leigh made a dramatic shift. She decided to give up her business and relocate to New York City. While taking a time out from leading, Leigh worked as a temporary secretary. Ego issues aside, she felt, how better to learn what effective leadership was really about! Leigh’s temp assignments landed her positions working with (and learning from) former U.S. cabinet members, esteemed global financiers, and senior executives at the investment bank Lazard Freres & Co., Hertz Rent-A-Car, and other industry leaders.

Each assignment became a ‘training room’ for her. She studied the cultural geography of varied environments and learned about leaders’ workplace behaviors, operating polices, and decision-making criteria, etc. The astute student did her own 360° assessments on leaders’ effectiveness by interacting with a broad range of their colleagues, direct reports, ancillary staff, and family members.

After a series of well-received consulting and training assignments, Leigh began her company with the title Leadership Training Room in 2000. LTR now helps other leaders level their playing field so that they, too, can realize their leadership potential.

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Leigh Henderson, Managing Director, Leadership Training Room, LLC, helps leaders level the playing field of obstacles blocking optimum performance and career advancement

Her method of assisting leaders improve their workplace intelligence is straightforward: structure learning in resonance with each individual’s background and experiences in order to maximize retention of knowledge and adaptations to cultural shifts.

A natural educator, she coaches leaders around the nuances of leadership, trains employees and students on workplace skills, and publishes LTR's Level Playing Field Special Reports to share her knowledge.

Executives and entrepreneurs retain Ms. Henderson on their own in order to achieve greater effectiveness in their current positions, to fulfill long-held ambitions, or to make plans for expanding current projects. Her clarity and on-point advice addressing complex organizational and individual change efforts are exceptional and have earned her praise as a trusted advisor.

Leigh is an Adjunct Instructor teaching "Employee Training & Development" within the Management Department of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York. 

In addition to student groups such as the American Language Program at Columbia University, audiences for her presentations on the changing culture of the workplace include the United Nations 50th Commission on the Status of Women/International Federation of Business & Professional Women, the American Association of University Women, the New York City Chapter of Employees Assistance Professional Association, and the Society for Marketing Professional Services.  She also spoke for the Newman School of Business Chapter of the National Association of Women MBAs at Tulane University in New Orleans, a city she’s visited three times since Hurricane Katrina to volunteer her training and coaching services.

LTR's level playing field special report Temping with Tycoons: Lessons from My Leadership Reinvention is available free in PDF format.

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Teleseminar: Temping with Tycoons Turn your job into a new career! Get inspired by listening to Leigh’s share her skill building techniques and the approaches she used to turn being a temporary secretary at an investment bank into a career developing leaders.

Teleseminar: Working to Win on the Recession Playing Field. Resiliency, resources, and relevancy are critical to level the leadership playing field during this recession. Come with your questions to ask Leigh so she can give you strategies to add to your playbook.

Workshop: Picture Success in the New Economy. Tired of updating your resume and reading about how to get a job? Then come to Leigh’s innovative career workshop. Bring pictures, certificates of achievement, letters of recommendation, and/or your portfolio. You'll use those items to help you design a future that matches your ambitions. You’ll boost your creativity, generate amazing ideas, and develop strategies to achieve or enhance a meaningful career.

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