Leesa has an extensive background in working with Fortune 500 executives, professionals, and small business owners. She joined Earth Equity Advisors in 2015 after serving as president and principal consultant of Triple Bottom Line Consulting. Prior to TBL, she spent time working for three major corporations: Citibank, Cone Mills Corporation, and Bank of America, among other things, as a Managing Director/Senior Vice President.
In her role with Earth Equity Advisors, Leesa draws upon the experience of over twenty-five years of corporate finance work, her Masters of Psychology degree, and seven years of professional consulting and coaching work with hundreds of clients. She helps clients to not only plan and invest, but to empower them to be positive changemakers through their investments. She strongly believes in the power of intentional investing and the impact it can have on the world.
Leesa has earned the Chartered SRI Counselor™ designation from the College for Financial Planning and has been quoted in industry-leading publications, such as Barron’s and MarketWatch. She also co-founded, with Kerry, 100+ Women Who Care Asheville – a local giving circle that supports charities in Western North Carolina.
Leesa and husband Todd are Asheville natives, and have returned to the area to live in and restore Todd’s historic childhood home in the Chunns Cove area.