Bio

Leah has over 10 years of experience leading high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams within product, process, service, and organizational design contexts. Her expertise includes ethnographic and analogous research, collaborative stakeholder engagement, needs and gap analysis, solution ideation and testing, future-casting, capability road mapping, strategy development and implementation, and movement-based change. Leah has led design projects across a wide variety of technical domains and organizational challenge areas including injury prevention, human performance augmentation, combat medicine, medical innovation, tactical training, warfighter resilience, space exploration, large-product manufacturing, parenthood assistance, affordable housing, higher education, and workplace thriving.

Leah graduated from Georgia Tech with her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and went on to complete her Master’s degree at Johns Hopkins University. Along the way, she has studied both industrial and human-centered design in her desire to foster curiosity-driven innovation through applied Design and Systems Thinking methods. Prior to joining Frontier, Leah worked for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as an award-winning project manager, design strategist, and human performance engineer. Outside of work, Leah enjoys backpacking, skiing, cooking, reading, and studying/practicing yoga.