A UNIQUE BACKGROUND COMBINING BUSINESS, EDUCATION
AND PSYCHOLOGY
Leslie Lampe Long has more than
20 years of experience in marketing and sales in telecommunications, software and manufacturing companies. Her career shows
a progression that is a non-linear, unconventional series of transitions that nevertheless build one upon the other. She has achieved two masters degrees in psychology- educational and counseling.
Following her
initial 9-year career as a teacher, Leslie began her business career in sales as an account executive in the start-up of
MCI Telecommunications. Her performance in sales earned her the #1 sales ranking nationally within a year, and
that quickly earned her a promotion to divisional sales manager of a team of 40 sales reps. With her background
as a teacher, Leslie was then recruited to run national account customer education, teaching large corporate customers
about the rapidly changing telecom market.
Leslie
moved into marketing as a public relations manager, directing global corporate symposiums for the now $1B MCI. With
her depth of knowledge of sales, Leslie eventually went on to manage value-added reseller marketing, heading channel marketing
for MCI Mail, the first public electronic mail service. With knowledge of the newest data products,
she went on to become Director of Sales Development, responsible for national sales training at MCI- 2500 reps.
Leslie moved on to the newly competitive arm of the
Bell System, Lucent Technologies. There she served as Director of Channel Marketing for Lucent’s Data Communications
Division.
With her experience in corporate
marketing, Leslie was ready to launch her own business, Just-in-Time-Training. There she earned long term contracts with AT&T
Canada in channel marketing and Xerox Corporation as a sales productivity coach.
After years in consulting, Leslie was recruited by an advertising agency in
New York City to join the B2B brand planning team as Senior Vice President. After 9/11 in NYC, she assumed
the position of head of human resources for the ad agency, responsible for all hiring, on-boarding, productivity coaching
and training. The experience of helping employees through the experience of 9/11, recommitted Leslie to pursuing her career
as a psychologist. After pursuing additional education and credentialing, Leslie launched her independent coaching practice
in 2004 and her psychotherapy practice in 2006.
Today,
Leslie runs a successful coaching, career development, and psychotherapy practice where she uses her experience as an educator,
marketer, manager and psychologist to help people thrive through work and life transitions.
In 2008 Leslie won the national Gradiva Award for her paper, "Career Dysphoria
and the Working Wounded."
