Ray is the oldest son of Boxing Legend, Sugar Ray Leonard. He is a member of several governance and advisory boards. He is also, Co-Founder of Launch Team Consulting and the CEO of Leonard Sports & Entertainment, a full service sports and entertainment management company specializing in pairing celebrities with corporations.
Growing up in a high profile celebrity family allowed Ray the opportunity to travel the world and engage with top leadership officials, billionaires, athletes, and entertainers. The experiences provided a worldly perspective on cultural diversity, personal conduct and effective management. His presentations are dynamic and entertaining and provide the audience with life lessons and an in-depth look into the pressures of being in the public spotlight and the responsibilities as leaders.
Ray has managed medium to large-scale projects globally providing diversity training, team building, and business consulting. Ray has provided vision and goal-focused team strategies for many Fortune 1000 Corporations, private organizations and not for profit groups.
Ray works closely with managers and staff to strengthen internal capacity, navigate complex relationships, and manage organizational processes. Ray has a strong collaborative approach and a facilitative style and has been responsible for creating effective and sustainable management development programs that have improved managerial effectiveness at several organizations.
He excels at coaching managers, leading inter-disciplinary teams to build a companies internal capacity to manage and train staff, facilitating meetings and retreats that focus on employee engagement, team building, readiness for change and performance development.
Charitable work and community development is also a major passion. He is currently on the board of directors for Walking Miracles and he served as Co-Executive director for the Youth Recreation association of Philadelphia for 2 years, and has been a mentor for the Magic Johnson foundation, Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, First Book, and The Walking Miracles Foundation.
Ray is a native of Maryland and has a Bachelors of Science from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He was a two sport division 1A athlete, excelling in football and track and field. Ray currently resides in California and with his wife and four children.
