WLE Leslie
Member for 17 weeks 3 days
- Real Name
- Leslie Grossman
- Personal Website
- Women's Leadership Exchange
- Bio
What is Women's Leadership Exchange?
Women's Leadership Exchange® (WLE) is a social entrepreneurship founded by and for successful businesswomen. Recognizing the unique challenges facing women in business – whether they are leading their own companies or are leaders in the corporate, government or not-for-profit sectors, WLE offers a program that helps them fill the information gap and provides a venue for building connections that will facilitate their success in business and in life.
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At the center of this program are conferences - featuring leading experts, accredited business coaches and interactive programming - in major markets around the U.S. In addition, WLE offers a resource-packed website, teleconferences, an enewsletter, local presentations and a facilitated connection program that enables women to lend support to each other on a local and national basis.Leslie Grossman
Cofounder of Women's Leadership Exchange® (WLE), is a serial entrepreneur. Since the age of 23, she has launched or run five different companies – all in the areas of marketing, public relations and edutainment – and all geared to reaching women. Leslie is the author of the book, SELLsation! How Companies Can Capture Today’s Hottest Market: Women Business Owners and Executives (WPE Press, March, 2006).
Leslie integrates a passion for supporting the growth of women leaders with her expertise as a marketer. As cofounder of Women's Leadership Exchange®, now in its fourth year, she develops the marketing/edutainment platform for the national multimedia program - with conferences as its centerpiece -which supports successful women entrepreneurs in growing their businesses. WLE conferences, held in major cities around the country, and business spa retreats have been attended by more than 12,000 businesswomen. As president of B2Women, Leslie develops win-win marketing programs for companies that want to capture the affluent market of women in business.
Leslie is a believer in using all the tools available to create the life and business of one’s dreams. She has personally used coaching, seminars, conferences, personal branding, treasure maps, affirmations, mentoring and meditation, to lead her to her “dream” business, WLE. And now through WLE, she shares these tools with business owners like her.
A leader and past president of many business associations, including NAWBO, NYWA, Women’s Leadership Forum, SBA National Advisory Council and Fashion Group International, she serves on many advisory boards/councils, including the Center for Women’s Business Research and Wyndham Women on Their Way. A frequent speaker, Leslie has traveled as far as Tokyo to address topics like entrepreneurship, women’s leadership, marketing to women and branding, and is interviewed frequently in print and on TV on business issues. She was honored with the NAWBO National Leadership Award, Fashion Group’s Entrepreneur of the Year and Association for Women in Communications, Westchester Matrix All-Star Award. Along with Andrea March, cofounder of WLE, she was awarded the Enterprising Women Advocacy Award, 2005 and the New York Enterprise Report Advocacy Award, 2006. Leslie is married to Richard Abrams, a loving and supportive husband, and is the mother of two “twenty-somethings”, Josh and Sara, destined for their own successes.
