Leanne embraces diversity and revels in helping minority or socially disadvantaged groups to have their skills recognised and utilised. This passion has led her to work extensively with socially disadvantaged people and the organisations that support them.
From positions such as Director, Family & Children's Services for the YMCA in Darwin to General Manager of a disability service at Lutheran Community Care in South-East Queensland, she's used her passion for strength-based organisational change to achieve groundbreaking outcomes – such as reducing the disability service's expenditure by $700,000 while more than trebling the number of clients serviced.
Leanne has done extensive volunteer capacity-building work for many organisations including World Vision, St John's Ambulance and organisations assisting people of migrant or refugee backgrounds.
Leanne is also on the Board of Clowns Without Borders Australia – an international organisation that sends teams of clowns to bring joy and hope to children affected by disaster and war across the globe.
Recently she successfully led the redesign, implementation and integration of multiple rural and remote allied and mental health outreach services across almost 30 per cent of Queensland's Central West and North-West.
Wherever she is working, Leanne sees herself as a facilitator of change – someone who enables businesses and individuals to recognise their potential and build their capacity through teams that thrive.
She's found the basics of team development – building on the strengths of leaders and individuals and placing them in positions where they can excel and enjoy their jobs – often becomes lost in today's focus on process, measurement and management; whether it be in social enterprises or businesses.
From there the establishment of Passions-n-Profits was a logical outcome. It is a business specifically aimed at working with existing or potential leaders to identify and develop their own strengths – as well as the strengths of their people – to build an environment that creates synergy and inspires cohesive teamwork.
Leanne loves nothing more than being a cheerleader as re-inspired leaders harness their passions and those of their people to drive performance and profits.