Leila McKenzie

LEILA MCKENZIE
Managing Director & Founder of

Leila McKenzie Associates
Leila was born in Hong Kong and holds a 1st Class Honors Degree in International Business and Business and Management Studies from highly regarded British Universities. She was awarded the RWR Award for the highest performing student in her graduating year. Leila has had a uniquely entrepreneurial career since graduation, including working on multiple contract assignments within events management and corporate promotions for businesses such as Nestle, Coca Cola and Unilever.

She also founded and opened her own tearoom in York prior to working in executive search for several privately-owned organisations prior to establishing her own business.

In addition to running Leila McKenzie Associates, Leila is also the UK’s Northern Director for Winmark Global, a C-suite peer-to-peer learning organisation and one of the key Executive Committee Members for the Institute of Directors (IOD) North West, where she is instrumental in advising on Diversity & Inclusion policies.

Leila is also a strong advocate of the 30% Club and Hampton Alexander Review. She brings considerable cross-sector experience as a dynamic thinker in use of specialised and innovative sourcing strategies, tied to business strategy which allows her to ensures results can be maximised.

Leila is particularly keen opassionate about promoting diversity and inclusion at leadership level having come from a diverse background herself. Evidence points to the fact that diverse groups make better, faster decisions with less bias and groupthink, and are more creative and innovative. This knowledge and experience has driven Leila to bring businesses and talented individuals together to build high-performing, fantastically diverse senior teams.

Leila regularly hosts high-profile events to support charitable causes that she is passionate about. Such events include “Celebrating Diverse and Inclusive Leaders”, “Women in Leadership in the Food & Drink Industry” and “Diversity at the top of the food chain”.

ASSOCIATES

Leila McKenzie Associates works closely with a number of key partners that share our passion for personal service.

Our partners are selected for their unique expertise which allows us to partner with the most relevant expert for each bespoke project we are assigned to

CHARLOTTE SPEAK
Strengths coach and talent consultant.
Coaching women returning to work or
making a career change and supporting employers through line manager or returnee workshops.
High potential strategy. Career pivots and transitions.
Lord Mark Price
Workplace Happiness Consultant
Employee Engagement, Business Transformation. Specialising in increasing happiness throughout organisaions to optimise performance and drive impactful and positive cultural change
SIMON TYLER
Leadership Coach, Author & Speaker
Motivational Speaker & Leadership Coach. Topic Specialisms include: Team Evolution, Impactful Me
Shifting Attitudes and Creating Dynamic Change, Authentic Leadership, Personal Evolution,
Coaching Others.
SAM AKINLUYI
Executive & Leadership Coach, On-boarding & Strategy Consultant
Executive coaching, focusing on purpose, confidence, behavioral change and action! Strategy planning and leadership team facilitation.

Ongoing business and strategic advisory services.
DEBORAH STRAZZA
HR & Organisation Design Consultant
Strategic Workforce Planning, Succession Planning, Organisation Design and Implementation. Development of Future Leadership Teams. Programme Design for: On boarding, Team Building and Talent Management.
LORRAINE COPES
Mentor & Business Transformation Consultant
Diversity and Inclusion, Career Transitioning Coach, Mentor, Procurement Consultant and Business Cultural Change and Transformation Specialist.
Tim Petransky
Leadership development; training, teams, groups and individual coaching.
Diversity & Inclusion specialist, helping organisations develop values and transformational culture.