Leslie Mullens is president of PlayBook Consulting Group, a 100% woman-owned management consulting firm focused on strategic planning, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness. She specializes in building high performing teams - improving bottom line performance, facilitating effective organizational transformation, developing and implementing strategic plans that accelerate growth, and enhancing leadership effectiveness. An expert in change management, cultural transformation, and cross-sector collaborative problem solving, her approach builds team capacity and confidence to get the job done. Partnering with highly motivated and engaged leaders, she focuses on building winning game plans for clients by facilitating effective organizational transformation, developing and implementing strategic plans that accelerate growth, and enhancing leadership effectiveness.Prior to launching PlayBook in 2004, Leslie led Cisco Systems’ global e-commerce and systems integration strategy across the company’s B2B ecosystem, an initiative that saved Cisco $400M in its first two years. Leslie recently designed and facilitated leadership development initiatives for the Obama Foundation, Alexander & Baldwin, and the University of Hawaii. She is a change management consultant for the Aspen Institute’s national policy initiatives on mobility from poverty and an Omidyar Fellow in social change and leadership development. She has designed change management strategies for Hawaii’s Department of Human Services and Hawaii Gas, facilitated strategic planning efforts for Aloha United Way and the National Park Service, and led Team Health & Effectiveness performance programs for The Omidyar Group and First Hawaiian Bank.Her belief is that healthy, talented teams with authentic, driven leaders can effectively collaborate to build sustainable, adaptive solutions to any challenge. Her role is to create the fertile environment where teams and leaders can evolve to their highest performance potential.Based in both Hawaii and Portland, Oregon, Leslie merges her love of the outdoors with her passion for developing high impact executives through PlayBook's annual TrailBlazer Treks: 3-4 day backpacking/hiking trips in US national parks where she leads female executives through personal and professional exploration to break through barriers to greater fulfillment and performance as an authentic, whole-hearted leader.