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Leah Tomlin Executive Coaching

Leah Tomlin Executive Coaching is an award-winning business. As the founder, I am in the Brainz 500 Global list for the top business leaders and entrepreneurs of 2021. I run my online coaching company with a mission to transform quality of life and enhance performance for women leaders and their organisations. As a result of working with me, my clients see transformations in their self-belief, behaviours, leadership, strategy and organisational culture. I empower women to leap equality hurdles, value wellbeing, transcend current circumstances and achieve greatness as women leaders. I am a published neuroscientist, qualified head teacher and writer. My expertise lies in leadership, business, neuroscience and learning. I am passionate about gender equality, helping women to excel in life and leadership, feel inspired in their roles and achieve personal and business goals beyond their expectations. 

www.leahtomlin.com

Executive Leadership Coach for Leah Tomlin Executive Coaching

Brainz Magazine Official

As an Executive Contributor, I write monthly articles for Brainz Magazine, on my professional passions: 
- Leadership
- Business
- Neuroscience
- Mindset
- Coaching
- Gender Equality

Executive Contributor Writer

Self-employed

Executive Leadership Coach

NATIONAL ELF SERVICE LIMITED

Edited, wrote and published health research blogs for The National Elf Service (https://www.nationalelfservice.net)- part time associate.

Blog Editor

HENLEAZE JUNIOR SCHOOL

- Developed an organisation-wide coaching approach, improving accountability and culture
- Ran coaching workshops for leaders at conferences, who were then inspired to incorporate organisation-wide coaching cultures
- Developed leadership capacity of female staff that built their confidence as leaders and allowed them to gain promotion/ lead more successfully
-Trained staff in leadership styles and development theories 
-Tackled and a culture of staff bullying and low morale to create a happy, productive team
- Restructured staff, leading to greater teamwork, productivity and sustainability
- Led transformation of the curriculum to achieve an OFSTED grade of ‘outstanding’; This leadership journey was published in a QCA document that was rolled out to every primary school in the country. 
- Developed an active agenda for pupil voice, leading to happier and more engaged children
- Created and implemented a whole-school strategy for the Every Child Matters agenda
- Developed a philosophy curriculum across the school 
- Trained and ran workshops for teachers across Bristol, who described my training as ‘exciting’, ‘inspirational’ and ‘thought-provoking”
- Led whole-school improvements in teaching and learning that saw significant improvements in: outcomes for children, target-setting, lesson planning, assessment... Teaching and learning was then graded ‘outstanding’ by OFSTED
- Used my neuroscience  knowledge to implement a meta-cognitive ‘learning to learn’ initiative across the school 
- Enhanced the lunch-time experience for children, meaning happier and more active children, improved behaviour and pupil relationships
- Created community networks involving all stakeholders, seeing an improvement in inclusion & wellbeing
- Networked with various agencies to improve child protection and safeguarding across Bristol
- Shortlisted, Interviewed and employed staff
- Developed a performance-management cycle that led to greater accountability and organisational relevance

Assistant Head Teacher

COLSTON'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Henleaze Junior School and Strand on the Green Junior School

Henleaze Junior School, Bristol; Colston’s Primary School, Bristol; Strand-on-the-Green Junior School, London
Consistently graded to be an “Outstanding” (or equivalent) teacher from time of training, through being newly qualified and as an experienced teacher. My classroom practice was based on positive relationships, nurturing with empathy and emotional intelligence, having high expectations of myself, my colleagues and the children I taught. Pupils made excellent progress across the curriculum, with exemplary standards of wellbeing and behaviour.

Teacher

UCL, KCL and Imperial College London

Researched brain science and neuronal development, disseminating my research nationally and internationally at conferences. Published several research papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Key Science Publications 
(Maiden name Leah Toole)
Eddison, M., Toole, L., Bell, E. and Wingate, R.J., 2004. Segmental identity and cerebellar granule cell induction in rhombomere 1. BMC biology, 2(1), p.14

Toole, L.J, Eddison M. and Wingate R.J.T., 2001. Overexpression of HoxA2 in dorsal rhombomere 1. In: Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27, 1, p.1228

Toole, L. and Wingate, R.J.T., 2000, January. Molecular and cellular correlates of midline fusion in the chick cerebellum. In EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE (Vol. 12, pp. 301-301). 

Grammatopoulos, G.A., Bell, E., Toole, L., Lumsden, A. and Tucker, A.S., 2000. Homeotic transformation of branchial arch identity after Hoxa2 overexpression. Development, 127(24), pp.5355-5365.

Toole, L., Belai, A., Shochina, M. and Burnstock, G., 1999. The effects of hibernation on the myenteric plexus of the golden hamster small and large intestine. Cell and tissue research, 296(3), pp.479-487.

Toole, L., Belai, A. and Burnstock, G., 1998. A neurochemical characterisation of the golden hamster myenteric plexus. Cell and tissue research, 291(3), pp.385-394.

Neuroscientist

Helping You to Propel Your Productivity

I truly understand the challenges of juggling it all and balancing hectic life & leadership! As a single mum to 3 young children, an award-winning certified Executive Coach, a business owner and magazine writer, I have nailed productivity.  I can help you do the same. I am on a mission to equip women leaders with a warrior mindset and productivity strategies for calm, motivating and fulfilling lives. 

We can only be amazingly productive if we first build strong foundations of wellbeing, energy and mindset. Only then are we able to take on productivity systems, prioritise, set boundaries and develop the best habits. As a published Neuroscientist I am well-equipped to help you to understand your brain, master your mindset, hone your habits, smarten your systems and propel your productivity. 

Through supportive 1:1 coaching and my Propel Your Productivity Program, your journey to productivity will be fun and engaging. You will have a clear roadmap to feeling calm, in control, motivated and loving your life and leadership. 

⭐️Click on the link below my profile photo ⬆️ to assess your current productivity.


Helping You to Level-Up Your Leadership

I understand the demands and expectations of leadership. As a qualified Head Teacher and business owner, my leadership experience is wide and varied. What’s more, my career as a published Neuroscientist gives me an understanding of the brain and learning that will help you in your mission for leadership excellence. 

My scientific approach means that the impact of your leadership journey will be measured and clear, starting with a baseline assessment that raises self-awareness of your leadership strengths and areas for development. Progress is tracked and impact for you and your team is measured so your success is tangible. 

My masters-degree level qualification in Executive Coaching, and my many years of outstanding coaching experience, ensure that you are in safe expert hands. My client testimonials speak reams as I’ve helped many women leaders to excel way beyond their expectations. 

Together, through a supportive 1:1 coaching relationship, I will help you create ambitious and meaningful goals, built from a place of real desire and purpose. Together, we can uncover hidden challenges and create true leadership excellence that’s targeted to your needs and to those of your organisation. 

⭐️Take the Level Up Your Leadership assessment:
https://levelupyourleadership.scoreapp.com/

⭐️Book a FREE strategy call: 
https://calendly.com/leah-tomlin-/30min

Leah Tomlin

Jennifer Riggins

Freelance writer and journalist

My writing and hosting bridges the chasm between technology and business, explaining in common language the impact of the developer experience.

💬 'the one journo I can trust' 
💬 ‘Inimitable... a true force of nature’ 
💬 'I love reading her work. I always feel like part of the story.’
💬  'Incredible at explaining really complex tech in a user friendly way, uncovering what really matters for the user, how it would help real companies with real time savings. Incredibly clear and engaging story telling.'

I translate the value found in B2B technology and developer-focused innovation, with engaging, actionable content and natural-sounding SEO keywords. I have an ability to write about technical concepts in ways that even a luddite (like me!) can understand. 

I'm most known for my ability to translate technical value to business stakeholders and business value to technical stakeholders.

Clients have included: 
- Tech Analysts: The New Stack, LeadDev Telefónica, CBS SmartPlanet (now ZDnet), InfoQ, ProgrammableWeb (now MuleSoft), Capital One, NordicAPIs, IR Global
- Platforms and SaaS: Azure API Management, PandaDoc electronic signature, SmartBear Software and Swagger OpenAPI, Hazy AI-backed synthetic data, YunoJuno freelance platform, MOCA beacon platform, When I Work employee scheduling app, Gestoos AI Platform, Itorix API governance, Redbooth project management software, Altitude Angel drone platform, KintoHub BaaS, Talkspirit collaboration platform, APIwiz
- SaaS Directories: GetApp, Featured Customers
- Tech Consultancies: Mobile Jazz consulting, Sales Force Europe, Webics, SourceSeek, Athena Brand, Code4Nord
- Non-Profit: Future Dreams breast cancer charity
- Event Planning & Communities: Aginext, Happy Melly and Management 3.0, APIdays

Tech Storyteller | Freelance Technology Journalist | Panel Host | Event Host

Freelance Marketing and Creative Services

I've now provided training for hundreds of LinkedIn profiles. LinkedIn has a search algorithm that, when you follow the right formula of keywords and network, allows your next job or client to find you. For each LinkedIn profile coaching, you get an hour career coaching session that includes CV/resume review, and is followed by a full LinkedIn Profile strategy, network strategy, profile rewrite and introductions.

You access my more than a decade of experience in the career coaching, tech, sales, and recruitment industries, as well as access to my wonderful network. Everything is personalized to your own needs and includes follow-up and continuous improvement and introductions when necessary. 

This service is 500£ (or free!) Know that your money directly enables me to provide LinkedIn profile and career coaching pro bono to under-represented minorities. I give on average 12 free sessions a month. (Check out my pinned tweet to learn more: https://twitter.com/jkriggins/status/1235261541227941891 )

This is a highly practical and successful activity — when you know specifically what you want to get out of being on LinkedIn. I'm not a life coach, but when you know where you want to go, I can help you get there.

LinkedIn Profile & Career Coach

The New Stack

As a tech storyteller and the resident culture correspondent, I get to interview the leaders of the cloud native world and help them share their experiences via features, profiles and podcast interviews. I typically try to capture the lessons learned where digital transformation meets culture, hopefully changing the world for a better place. And I try to do what I can to highlight the community part of the international tech community, particularly of those under-represented in our industry.

I've been writing posts for The New Stack since May 2015. I've been a host of The New Stack Makers podcast since May 2019. Please subscribe and share and review us if you gain value from it. Well over 200 pieces in and I'm still proud of the work I'm doing with this entity!

Tech Storyteller | Culture Correspondent | Freelance Writer | Host | Tech Analyst | Feature Writer

Sales Force Europe

Full website, content, SEO and messaging rebrand and update
Blog manager and sole writer of all content, including ghostwriting for CEO
Newsletter marketing
Social media marketing
YouTube and Webinar marketing

Since 2003, Sales Force Europe has helped 300+ tech companies expand to Europe with a mix of localized sales outsourcing, lead generation and international strategy.

CMO | Content Manager

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

I am honored to mentor four of Dr Vandana Singh's students in the 495 DEI-TIP / diversity, equity and inclusion for technology information professionals capstone course, funded by the Google Award for Inclusion. The only non-technical cohort among six in the course, we are focused on the socio side of the sociotechnical impact of DEI in open source software communities.

Our cohort goals are:
Get a grasp of terms/common tools/communities of open source (including CNCF Slack community, meetups, StackOverflow, GitHub)
Understand the challenges around DEI facing OS communities and consider possible solutions
Contribute something back to OSS
Gain a professional network/community in open source 
Constantly consider: If tech is the future, and open source is the backbone of the future, who is participating in creating that future?

Our weekly discussions included:
Open source challenges
Getting starting in open source
Experience making your first open source contribution
Open source leadership
Open source communities
Open source inclusion techniques
Solutions to DEI concerns in OSS

Both group and one-to-one mentoring and discussion is also around student projects including an OSS contribution and an OSS diversity action plan. Students encouraged to speak for themselves and be highly analytical, as well as to interact with open source communities via Slack, meetups and sharing their research and reflection outside of the course.

This is a wonderful culmination of my more than a decade as a culture side-of-tech analyst and I hope to find more opportunities like this. Thank you to my fantastic students!

Mentor | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in Open Source

Aginext Community

After giving a talk at Aginext 2017, I connected with David, the founder of Talkfields, and began doing marketing and communications for these two annual conferences — Aginext, two days dedicated to agile at scale, and Agile Tour London, a one-day generalist agile conference, as well as when we organized a third event on Psychological Safety. This work included managing our Slack community, running a monthly virtual lean coffee, regular newsletters, social media,  and heading the marketing and communications strategy. Plus I got to host these fun, unusual, unique and LIVE events both online and in person. We have truly built an online community and I'm damn proud of it.

My volunteer work continues with monthly Lean Coffees https://www.meetup.com/DigitalLeadership/
and in managing our Slack community and LinkedIn page. However after ten years Aginext events as a formal entity and in-person events has dissolved.

CMO | Remote Community Manager | Event Host | Monthly Lean Coffee Host | Program Committee

APIwiz

With APIwiz by Itorix, I get to combine my passion for helping a compelling technology brand explain its value to target users (and Google) on website, blogs, and more, with the freedom of working on a remote team. Itorix is an impressive enterprise API strategy platform, built for governing your API lifecycle. It helps large companies organize and secure their often frenetic API strategies, orchestrating company-wide planning and design, release management, and security.

CMO | Business Development Strategy

Management 3.0

Working part-time for more than three years, I managed all marketing, PR, backlinks, and public content activities for the Management 3.0 and Happy Melly employee engagement and happiness at work brands, present in 134 countries. My role as a team member was highly strategic, goal-focused, team values-centric, and forward-thinking. There’s no doubt I was the “enthusiastic idea person” on our ten-person remote team. I also played a natural leadership role bridging the two brands.

I was the sole person responsible for developing the content and SEO strategy for the Management 3.0 website, with the following achievements:
86% Organic Traffic Growth
66% Referral Traffic Growth
77% Social Traffic Growth (256% on Twitter!) 
96% Email Traffic Growth

I managed the Management 3.0 newsletters. The biweekly public newsletter grew to 26,000 subscribers with a 30% open rate. The biweekly newsletter exclusive to customers saw a 56% open rate, making it the must reliable form of communication with the very distributed base.

I managed the Happy Melly blog, which had me writing, editing and managing contributions from many member and guest writers, publishing three times a week. 

I worked to enhance both companies' online branding, SEO, social media and digital marketing strategy, backlink and public relations, and business development and PR partnerships. I also worked to help the 237 Management 3.0 business coaches worldwide to sell their services, and to spread the word that everyone has a chance to feel engaged and valued in a job they're good at.

This role involved a lot of customer management and customer engagement, including daily with a 1000+-person Slack community.

Chief Marketing Officer

Xink

I've been working with Xink the email signature management app for about a year now doing projects like writing five ebooks, but this year I joined the team in a more strategic capacity, helping attract new users to this great app for this overlooked marketing channel at the end of your email, working with SEO / search engine optimization, content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing and more.

While I'm only giving part-time to this board, this again spills over into everything I'm working on with SEO, branding, rebranding and SaaS. And receiving dozens of emails daily with ugly, annoying email signature attachments, I think this is an often ignored important part of branding and a great marketing tool in your most used channel -- email!

CMO | Chief Marketing Officer

GetApp.com

-In charge of hiring, managing and motivating three-person content marketing team, three interns, and nine freelance writers, for this small Barcelona-based start-up and #1 business software / SaaS online directory
-Managed all content on website and blog, email marketing to both SaaS clients and end users, search engine optimization / SEO, press releases and other public relations
-Part of executive team for business strategy development, messaging, rebranding, and direction
-Developed fifth anniversary press, sales campaigns, and content, including interviewing ~25 SaaS market leaders and influencers, researching and writing white paper on the Last Five Years of SaaS and its Future [to be published]
-Wrote articles for external sites for brand awareness, linkbacks, website traffic, and SEO, including on AllBusiness.com, FoxNews, Score.org, ITPro, CloudPro
-Continually developed and revised content marketing strategy to reflect Sales needs
-Acted as liaison and coordinator between SaaS clients in developing and executing co-marketing strategy between iPaaS / integration platform as a service clients
-Interacted with dozens of SaaS clients daily, strategizing to increase website traffic, conversion rate, brand awareness, and customer satisfaction
-Oversaw social media marketing including Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora, Facebook, GooglePLUS
-Streamlined and documented processes and communication among marketing, sales, and development
-Developed content marketing strategy for newly launched .FR France marketplace

Marketing Director

Tech Storyteller | Tech Culture Journalist | B2B Tech Analyst | Podcast Host | Event Host

I'm a tech journalist. Through writing, marketing, and live event hosting, panel hosting and podcast hosting, I help to share the stories where culture, business, technology and the developer experience collide.

I've been a working writer since 2003. The last few years have been all about how orgs are trying to increase developer productivity, via platform engineering and generative AI.

Right now I'm "translating" the value of/analyzing the impact of generative AI / genAI, cloud native infrastructure and mindset, developer productivity / platform engineering and measuring it all, tech layoffs and tech recruitment, open source communities, developer experience / DevRel / developer advocacy, SRE / site reliability engineering, progressive delivery, tech ethics, diversity and inclusion, accessibility, DevOps and agile company culture. I am a strong flexible work, a11y, and DEIB advocate.

I'm a New Jersey native who's spent post-uni life living and working in great European cities — Madrid, Barcelona, and now London. I've a U.S. passport, UK settled status, and EU right to work.

A funny af working mom, consummate networker and question asker, I'm delighted that my various projects allow me to work from anywhere and to learn and teach new things every day. 

‘Inimitable’
‘a true force of nature’
‘bubbly...thoughtful...respectful… a little bit sweary’
‘the one journo I can trust’
‘I love reading your work. I always feel like part of the story.’
‘One of the best moderated webinars I've seen.’
‘Connector of people, but not afraid to throw a pebble in the water.’
'Incredible at explaining really complex tech in a user friendly way, uncovering what really matters for the user, how it would help real companies with real time savings.'

Always interested in more paid writing, event hosting, panel hosting and mentoring gigs. I prioritize highlighting voices marginalized by our industry, so make my life easier and prioritize diversity and inclusion on your stage and in your office if you'd like me to cover your event, org or technology.

I bring 15 years’ experience in tech storytelling including: 
✓ feature writing, tech journalism, B2B blogging (Google hearts my writing as long, easy to understand, keyword friendly)
✓ B2B tech marketing, content marketing, digital marketing
✓ public speaker, panel host, podcast host, webinar host, online event host, event host
✓ messaging and branding strategy, rebranding, LinkedIn marketing

Tech Storyteller | Tech Marketing Consultant | SEO | Branding | Host

I help you build your strong online brand through messaging and copywriting, content marketing, blogging, social media marketing, and PR / backlinks, all with strong organic SEO.  I help establish you and your tech business as international domain experts, and make it easy for you to rank and be found on Google. And I help you better express the services you offer so the right clients find you.

I translate the value found in B2B technology and developer-focused innovation, with engaging, actionable content and natural-sounding SEO keywords. I have an ability to write about technical concepts in ways that even a luddite (like me!) can understand. 

Clients have included: 
- Tech Analysts: The New Stack, Telefónica, CBS SmartPlanet (now ZDnet), InfoQ, ProgrammableWeb, Capital One, NordicAPIs, IR Global
- Platforms and SaaS: Azure API Management, PandaDoc electronic signature, SmartBear Software and Swagger OpenAPI, Hazy AI-backed synthetic data, YunoJuno freelance platform, MOCA beacon platform, When I Work employee scheduling app, Gestoos AI Platform, Itorix API governance, Redbooth project management software, Altitude Angel drone platform, KintoHub BaaS, Talkspirit collaboration platform
- SaaS Directories: GetApp, Featured Customers, 
- Tech Consultancies: Mobile Jazz consulting, Sales Force Europe, Webics, SourceSeek, Athena Brand, Code4Nord
- Non-Profit: Future Dreams breast cancer charity, 
- Event Planning & Communities: Aginext, Happy Melly and Management 3.0, APIdays

Fresh off the printer*! You can finally download my book "AI for the Enterprise: The Playbook for Developing and Scaling your AI Strategy!" https://lnkd.in/eVTaNA5A 

Thank you so much to my editor Vicki Walker, copy editors Susan Hall and Michael Baker, and designer Diana Gonçalves for your hard work and keen eyes to detail! And thank you of course to everyone I learned from for this book, including but never limited to Hannah Foxwell, Marty Wesley, Dana Lawson, Joe Giordano, Rachel Laycock, Raghu K. Moorthy, Laura Tacho, Peter Szel, Lizzie Matusov, Patrick Debois, Nathen Harvey, James Governor, Karthik Ramgopal, Barry Guiney and Serdar Gürbüz, 

I think it's actually really useful for your office bookclub – especially if you bring together folks from different departments. I'm fixing to work on a #BookClub outline**. Please let me know what questions you asked (or wanted to ask or wish more companies ask) your team or your leaders because you read this book. And of course shares and hopefully recommendations for my book would be an honor! I'm really proud of it and I really hope it helps companies come up with much needed AI policies and have AI discussions at all levels. It feels so important.

Cheers to Red Hat – especially Alyssa Genestreti!! – and Intel Corporation for sponsoring this important conversation. Only on The New Stack.

*Printer, as in singular. Yes I'm extra and printed it out for this pic and potentially to torture myself if there's a typo in it. But it's a FREE ebook, y'all. It would be ridiculous to really publish a real book about AI as it's all changing so fast. 

**To the amazing regency-fab women in our fabulous Jane Austen bookclub, don't worry, I'm obviously prioritizing my Northanger Abbey questions for next week. Yours, &c.

Freelance Tech Journalist + Tech Storyteller • Enterprise AI Strategy book out now! • DevEx Advocate + Platform Engineering + Developer Productivity • B2B Tech Analyst • Awesome Panel Host + Event Host for Hire

Me a with very curly red hair sitting in front of a christmas tree looking at my book cover which you can see says The New Stack

There are still spots left to join Helen, Martin, Panos, Marcel and I to talk about how #AI can increase systems #resiliency in the face of more, well, everything than ever. https://lnkd.in/edSei-_D

We will be chatting about how to:
 ✔ Advocate for guardrails and progressive delivery 
 ✔ Establish pace and scale of feature management
 ✔ Understand chaos engineering, feature flags and rollbacks, oh my! 
 ✔ Ensure uptime – it is #BlackFriday week now
 ✔ Set limits, coverage and measure it all
And, of course, how these #SRE teams are using AI to support it all

Only on LeadDev LIVE (but also you can get the recording after but you should def suggest a Q below if you are might miss it love!) Thanks to Harness, Multiverse, Nike and Dash0 for sharing your own engineering teams' experiences!

Freelance Tech Journalist + Tech Storyteller • Writing the Book on Enterprise AI Strategy • DevEx Advocate + Platform Engineering + Developer Productivity • B2B Tech Analyst • Awesome Panel Host + Event Host for Hire

A canva I cobbled together with Helen of Multiverse, Martin of Harness, Panos of Nike and Marcel of Dash0 with the text:
Join us 
this Wed Nov 26 to learn what these SRE leaders are doing IRL in the face of more code than ever!!
Is AI increasing systems resiliency 
...or making it worse?

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