Leslie Ellis is a transformational change advisor and CEO of Meaningful Change Consulting, a certified woman-owned business that has become a trusted partner for organizations navigating their most complex transformations. With over 20 years of dedicated experience in the field of organizational change, Leslie has established herself as a thought leader who empathizes deeply with the barriers and frustrations that often hold organizations back from effectively anticipating, designing, and implementing desired change.
Throughout her distinguished career, Leslie has applied proven change methods to more than 250 successful change projects, working with 47 clients across 42 countries and positively impacting over 850,000 stakeholders globally. Her expertise has been particularly valuable in complex global engineered products, energy services, and utilities, as well as organizations across various industries headquartered in the South and Eastern USA.
Leslie's career journey began as a technical recruiter, where she developed her foundational understanding of placing people in the right roles—a skill that would prove invaluable in her later work helping organizations navigate human-centered change. This early experience instilled in her a commitment to avoiding unnecessary change rework, a principle that has guided her approach to delivering successful transformations done right the first time.
Organizations call upon Leslie and her team when facing critical transitions including culture change, business reinvention, digital transformations, mergers and acquisitions, sponsor and leadership development, and building organizational change capability and maturity. Her comprehensive service offerings include Change Plans (engaging before the business case is final), Change Rescue™ (intervening when change efforts begin to derail), and Change Recovery™ (engaging after change has fallen short of desired results).
What distinguishes Meaningful Change's approach is Leslie's proprietary methodology designed to avoid breaking what's working while ensuring that people and business processes work together as a cohesive system. This approach leverages co-active leadership, human-centered design, conscious business principles, and decades of personal experience in developing both personal and organizational capability. Her innovative concepts include the Layered Alignment Method™ and Strategic Tension™, proprietary frameworks that address the complexities of modern organizational change.
Leslie's expertise extends beyond traditional change management to include coaching challenging personalities, from abrasive leaders to laissez-faire executives, helping them develop the capabilities needed to lead successful transformations. She believes that reinvention is not a phase but a capability that today's leaders must cultivate to thrive in an ever-changing business environment.
Her credentials include Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP™), Certified Re
