Kia ora, I’m Leanne – an experienced Non-Executive and Executive business leader, CCO, author, lecturer and past-life blogger on Digital Communications. Irish by birth, Kiwi by choice, this is my wee part of the internet.
You can find out what I’m up to currently work-wise via my LinkedIn profile. I’m lucky that my profession takes me around the world, meeting smart and passionate people, all of whom are trying to tackle society’s biggest challenges to realise the opportunities that the technological revolution promised.
This website originally started as a hobby in 2013 – my blog “a Cup of Lee” – which was a finalist in the Irish Blog Awards in 2014 and 2015, and was Commended in the DANI Awards for Best Business & Tech Blog in 2017.
In 2016 I pulled all my blog information together and published a PR how-to book for startups and small businesses called “Talk is Cheap“, which became an Amazon Top 5 Bestseller.
Later that year I emigrated to New Zealand.
I regularly guest lecture on the Master of Entrepreneurship programme at the University of Otago, having served on the board of Startup Dunedin, where I still run workshops on their student ‘Audacious‘ programme.
In the previous decade I ran a successful consultancy business remotely creating PR campaigns and digital content for clients and agencies around the world – including Ireland, UK, UAE, USA and NZ – as well as delivering social media training to businesses and social media safety talks in local schools. You can see some of those old case studies here.
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