Leigh Kearney, Ph.D.

Leigh Kearney has over 15 years experience working with a broad range of organizations and teams and their senior executives as a leadership consultant. Leigh specializes in skills assessments for selection, assessments for development and team assessments. Her work in Top Team facilitation focuses on setting the direction and strategy for talent development and succession planning initiatives. She partners with internal stakeholders of talent and leadership programs to effectively cascade the leadership learning to global partners and functional areas of an organization.

Leigh's coaching experience includes executives at the president and CEO level. Some of Leigh's clients include Prudential Financial Services, Merrill Lynch, MedCo, Time Inc., First Data Resources, EMI Music, Burberry USA, Jimmy Choo, Office Depot, TRW, Maytag, GM, Aviva USA, Addleshaw Goddard Law Firm, Harvard and Stanford Medical Schools.

Leigh has also worked as a Senior Program Consultant for the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs, CO for 10 years. During her tenure with CCL, she served in many capacities including the facilitation of Leadership at the Peak (the senior executive development program), selection and supervision of the adjunct professional staff, custom client management as well as contributing as a co-designer of CCL's Leadership and High Performance Team's course.

Leigh received her Ph.D. from the University of Denver where her academic interests focused on counseling psychology as it applies to elite performance and the leadership of high performance teams. Her research with Harvard and Stanford Medical schools looked at the impact of surgeon communication on the clinical and technical skills of the anesthesiologist during an aesthesia crisis, allowing for the investigation of leader behavior on the team. Leigh also earned a Masters of Science from the University of Colorado in clinical psychology. Her undergraduate and additional graduate work concentrated on exercise physiology from the University of New Hampshire and the University of California at Davis.