Under RL Strategies, Dr. Jessica Rush Leeker uses her unique background, corporate and non-profit experience, and research to implement a full-scale, long-term strategy. 

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When it comes to expanding her impact within her community— and encouraging others to do the same— there is no shortage of inspiration and devotion within Dr. Jessica Rush Leeker.

 

Fueled by her desire to deepen her knowledge and understand how she can leave a lasting impact on the world and the people around her, Dr. Rush Leeker has cultivated a rich educational background. Equipped with her undergraduate degree in Supply Chain and Information Systems from Penn University and her Ph.D. in Engineering Education and MBA in Sustainability and Operations from Purdue University, she is proud to currently share her expertise as an Engineering Professor at CU Boulder.

 

As the founder of RL Strategies, Dr. Rush Leeker supports organizations and people in project areas such as goal setting and employee development and DEI-centered workshops, training, and personal coaching. Putting her certification in integrative wellness and life coaching to work, she applies her extensive educational and professional experience to address each unique need, and she strives to devise long-term, customizable strategies for creating diversity, equity, and inclusion for all. 

 

Through her coaching business, Dr. Rush Leeker has worked with several successful companies, including top Fortune 500 organizations, and private coaching clients looking to improve their business practices to find professional and personal growth.

 

In addition to her work with RL Strategies, Dr. Rush Leeker has taken on what has been dubbed the "living-learning laboratory," a large-scale project that she has developed and overseen through CU Boulder's partnership with Tuskegee University. Together, their goal is to use this sustainable mission to serve and strengthen their community through their efforts to promote education in STEM while fighting food injustice.

 

Today's youth will soon be tomorrow's leaders. As a children's book author and Yoga teacher, Dr. Rush Leeker hopes to serve as a mentor for the next generation as she encourages students of all ages to explore their creativity, always choose kindness, and be brave enough to pursue their passions.