LEESA Wallace

Founder and Principal @The Performance Architect

Soft Skills TrainerExecutive CoachTraining&Development SpecialistEducationConsultingHR

Leesa is a master at leadership development and learning strategy. She builds better leaders and has a proven method for doing that—in legal and professional services, retail, manufacturing, financial services, pharma, startups, and nonprofits. She does this by staying true to her core mission of comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable. She’s unapologetically practical and has a focus on bringing practical, realistic, integrated approaches to help elevate individual, team, and organizational performance. She connects the dots between business goals and employee behavior by bringing an ability to work at all levels in an organization and “meet people where they are.” She’s led hundreds of teams and professionals through intensive skills programs and provided one-to-one coaching to high potential employees as well as executives. Based on her work in this area, she co-authored, “Sharpening Your Point,” to help professionals at all levels “bottom line” messages for great impact. She was awarded the “Inspire” award from the Travelers for her work in designing and implementing an enterprise-wide performance management program and “Instructor of the Year” from the Center for Financial Training. Participants often praise her high energy, creative program design and ability to engage them in a meaningful way. Over a period of thirty years, Leesa has helped bring success to organizations such as Yale School of Management, GE, Google, Deloitte, HarborOne Bank, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, BlumShapiro, The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Chrysalis Center, Bridgeport Fittings, Louis Vuitton (LVMH), TJX, Odyssey Reinsurance, Tradewind Aviation, Taconic Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb and Trinity Health of New England. Leesa is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a degree in communications and journalism. She completed her M.Ed in Adult Education with a concentration in management from Cambridge College. She’s living large as an empty nester with her husband Bruce and the coolest r

People also viewed

Creative Director @Pace

Catherine Zecha

Patient Care Coordinator @EVERSANA

📝 Influencer or BloggerCustomer ServiceMedical+4 tags

HR Business Partner @Scopely

Senior Accountant @8th Light

AssistantCall CenterData Entry+6 tags

Angelica Torres

Customer Support RepresentativeHRConsulting+18 tags

Tatiana Florentino

🔥 Startup Founder💸 Marketing✔️ IT+16 tags

Florencio Morales

CEO & Founder @Healthwave Digital

Creative ProducerEvent ProducerBrand Marketing Manager+14 tags

South AfricaGraphic Designer🐦 Design+1 tags

Founder @IZUMOV BRANDS

Branding🐦 Design🧨 Consulting+2 tags

Fadoua Ameziane

Senior Software Architect @ASML

Embedded DeveloperSystem ArchitectDatabase Developer+10 tags

Feedback from LEESA’s ex-colleagues

user-post-1

user-post-2

user-post-3

Keep in touch with meI'm using Intch to connect with new people. Use this link to open chat with me via Intch app

Work Background

Founding Principal

The Performance Architect, LLCFounding Principal

Nov. 2011At The Performance Architect, we love seeing individuals, teams, and leaders get better at what they do. As Principal, Leesa consults and digs deep to understand causes before jumping to a solution. She helps strengthen the capacity of individual contributors, create clarity and collaboration on teams, and helps leaders learn how to better engage and tap into the potential of their people.

2nd Vice President/Director - Enterprise Learning and Organization Development

Travelers2nd Vice President/Director - Enterprise Learning and Organization Development

Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2011Hartford, CTSupported IT and Operations leadership and HR team and provided performance consulting, customized team development solutions, and leadership communication and learning strategies

Head of Leadership Development

INGHead of Leadership Development

Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2004Hartford, Connecticut AreaLed leadership development activities for US-based financial services organization. Successfully transformed function from "order taking" to "pay for services" model with outstanding, quantitative and qualitative results. Managed a staff of 4

Director of Training and Development

TravelersDirector of Training and Development

Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2002Hartford, Connecticut AreaDirected all learning and development activities including oversight of technical and leadership development areas. Implemented corporate university model for wholesaling function, and introduced customized 360 assessment designed to support and measure leadership coaching skills Managed staff of 6

Director of Training and Organization Development

Liberty Bank - CTDirector of Training and Organization Development

Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1998Middletown, CTResponsible for all OD initiatives including strategic planning, delivering mid and executive level training programs for three divisions. Served as interim employment manager assuming responsibility for all recruiting and employee relations issues Managed a staff of 3

Manager of Training and Development

Bob's StoresManager of Training and Development

Jan. 1991 - Dec. 1994Middletown, CT

Director of Training

D&L Venture CorporationDirector of Training

Jan. 1988 - Dec. 1991

English Teaching Consultant

Japanese Ministry of EducationEnglish Teaching Consultant

Jan. 1984 - Dec. 1986Yokohama, Kanagawa, JapanWorked with teachers in public high schools to improve student fluency in spoken English. Fostered cultural understanding appreciation between the United States and Japan. Published a short textbook, "Japan and America: Questions You Ask." Kaitakusha Press

Requests

Touchpoint image

0

Personal Pitch

Leadership & Organizational Development

Intch is a Professional Networking App for the Future of Work

300k+ people

130+ countries

AI matching

Get Intch if you'd like to

Get Recommended to New Customers

Connect with Like-Minded People

Find a side project

Reach Top Niche Experts

Find Jobs on a Hidden Market

Find a Perfect Co-Founder

Find a Trusted Mentor

Hire Top Global Professionals

See more people like LEESA on Intch

HR

626362 people

21

CEO / Leadership Coach / Career Strategist / Instructional Designer / Curriculum Consultant @ Expanding Leaders

15

HR Leader

15

Virtual Assistant

HRTraining&Development Specialist

139824 people

21

CEO / Leadership Coach / Career Strategist / Instructional Designer / Curriculum Consultant @ Expanding Leaders

20

ABM Consultant

16

Stay at Home Mom