Latin America Leadership Program

Leslie is a social change strategist, author, educator, and Executive Director of Business for Impact at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Leslie leads the Business for Impact team in delivering world-class student experience, new insight discovery, and driving impact with corporate, nonprofit, and government partners committed to the triple bottom line – people, planet and prosperity. Leslie’s latest book is How Change Happens: Why Some Movements Succeed While Others Don’t, featured in The New York Review of Books as a “blueprint for groups inspired to take action on today’s major causes.” Leslie co-authored the bestselling Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits - recognized by The Economist on its Best Books of the Year list – and is co-author of Do More than Give. She teaches courses on Corporate Social Responsibility and Nonprofit Leadership in Georgetown’s MBA program, and she instructs virtually via LinkedIn Learning courses on Business Leadership & Social Movements and Nonprofit Fundamentals. Leslie previously served as senior advisor at FSG Social Impact Consultants for more than a decade, advising corporations and foundations on strategies to achieve greater impact and create shared value. Prior to FSG, she served as managing director at Ashoka, the global venture fund for social entrepreneurs, and she co-founded a national nonprofit social enterprise. Leslie has contributed to Fortune, Forbes, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Stanford Social Innovation Review, and has appeared on programs such as ABC, FOX, NPR and PBS. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Boldly Go philanthropy advisors, and she volunteered with Crossroads Africa in The Gambia. She holds a BA and MBA from Harvard University.