Leanne Cusumano Roque
Leadership Coach
“You are creative, resourceful, and whole. Hold yourself in unconditional positive regard as a foundation for growing and thriving.”
Leanne Cusumano Roque, PCC, CPQC, JD, is a leadership and executive coach with 20+ years of experience helping hundreds of high-achieving professionals clarify their priorities, enhance their leadership impact, and create a sense of balance in their lives. Whether you’re navigating a new leadership role, managing complex priorities, or seeking balance in a fast-paced world, Leanne provides the expertise, empathy, and tools to help you succeed.
With a background as a practicing attorney and award-winning government leader, Leanne understands the complexities of leadership in demanding environments. Her clients, who include attorneys, scientists, engineers, and government executives, appreciate her ability to combine strategic insights with a personalized and empathetic approach.
Leanne’s clients report measurable improvements, including greater influence within leadership circles, improved team collaboration and relationships, clarity in setting and achieving both personal and professional goals, and a renewed ability to balance demanding responsibilities with personal well-being.
Leanne combines her experience as a professional coach, an attorney, a leader, and a yoga therapist to provide a holistic, results-driven approach. Known for her warm and thoughtful style, Leanne creates a safe space for exploration and experimentation. Her coaching process is grounded in partnership: Leanne doesn’t provide answers but helps you explore your unique values, assumptions, and strengths. Her clients appreciate her thoughtful, personalized approach.
Experience
- 20+ years as an executive and leadership coach with thousands of coaching hours partnering with hundreds of senior leaders, resulting in documented increases in leadership influence and positive team relations.
- Developed, planned, implemented, and oversaw strategy into action as the supervisory attorney for Outreach and Oversight within the Office of Inspector General at the National Science Foundation, including building a high performing legal team
- Managed and developed projects requiring partners’ consensus, including coordinating and liaising with medical doctors and scientists with differing viewpoints and opinions to obtain final agency and department clearances as a Regulatory Attorney for the US Food & Drug Administration
- Successfully represented legal clients, including first chair work, through litigation, negotiation, and/or counseling in the fields of local government, white-collar crime, securities, failed thrifts, ethics, employment, domestic relations, and landlord-tenant law as an attorney with a Washington, D.C. law firm
- 2013 Global Coaching Leadership Award, World Coaching Congress, Mumbai, India
- Director’s Award, Management Excellence, U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Inspector General
- Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, Rockville, MD
Education, Training and Certifications
- International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Certified Positive Intelligence Coach (CPQC)
- Coaching Supervisor
- Graduate, Federal Executive Institute’s Leadership for a Democratic Society
- J.D., Marshall-Wythe School of Law, William & Mary
- B.A., International Affairs Politics, with a Secondary Field in Spanish Language and Literature, George Washington University
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Certificate, University of South Florida
- Environmental Justice, University of East Anglia
- Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher; Certified Yoga Therapist, International Association of Yoga Therapists
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Assessment Certifications: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, 360 Debriefer, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Korn Ferry Leadership Solution Candidate Report, PDI Profilor 360, Strengths Deployment Inventory, Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, Leadership Circle Profile 360
Personal
- Yoga practitioner, kayaker, hiker, traveler, beginner guitar player
- Appreciates all the ways we are humans, together
- Parent
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