Lee Ann knows that it’s the little things like thank you notes that are remembered, along with the big things, like conducting in depth interviews for several days in order to understand a client’s culture. She focuses on building relationships, not just completing recruitment assignments. With more than twelve years of executive search experience, Lee Ann has capitalized on her strengths as a senior human resources executive and functional leader to become a strategic partner and consultant to her diverse domestic and global client base.
By forging relationships with a variety of companies, from a new venture in need of additional members for their Board of Directors to the largest global corporations, Lee Ann strategically builds leadership teams across functional and business lines. She also specializes in functional leadership assignments in human resources, finance, sales and marketing, research & development and legal.
Prior to entering executive search, Lee Ann’s career included fifteen plus years in senior human resources positions with world class companies that include DuPont Merck, Frito-Lay, Inc, Marion Merrell Dow, and Peabody Coal. Lee Ann earned her Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from Truman State University and a Master of Science in Management from Baker University.
Lee Ann is currently on the boards of The Gathering Place, American Heart Association, Women’s Community Foundation and In Counsel With Women. She has also served on the board of Business Volunteers Unlimited and is a 2005 graduate of Leadership Cleveland. She is the founder of Conversations with the Board Series, which helps women become members of corporate boards. Lee Ann is a recognized community leader and is asked to speak locally and nationally on topics of leadership, recruiting and retention, executive development, not-for-profit and for-profit boards and women’s issues. She has received many awards and honors for her activities including Northern Ohio Live Magazine’s Rainmaker Award, National Association of Women Business Owners Top Ten Award in Northeast Ohio and ATHENA Awards Winner.
